Quotes About Success

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

You just do it one step at a time.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.