Quotes About Success

There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.

Public posturing notwithstanding, when trash becomes a hit no filmmaker worth his salt takes it seriously.

As actors we keep on hoping to get that one good role, but at times we have to go through a lot of trash to get there.

For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.' I cared too much about what people thought of me, and that was symptomatic of the trauma from my childhood.

By addressing generations of trauma in the Black community, Concordance helps people released from prison achieve significant change and lasting success for themselves, their families and the community.

I had a very traumatic end to my career so I didn't think I would become a manager then. As the years pass by the fire in you, the hunger, the desire for success comes back.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it's going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let's do it that way.

In my early years, I would travel 56 km. from home to the training institute and back every single day.

I have the best possible life because I believe in the mission I'm making, and I'm making money out of something I enjoy, and I travel.

Racing is my passion and I've been able to have a good life anyway. I've been able to travel the world, so I'm not complaining.

I spent many hours slaving away, day and night, bleary eyed, on multi-million pound takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the rest. It could sound glamorous (especially when it involved overseas travel) but often it wasn't partly because, as a lawyer, you were not the one calling the shots.

Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

In college you might think you travel a lot, but it is nowhere close to the NBA.

When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.

I've accomplished every goal I've set out to. I've traveled the world, I've competed in just about every promotion there is.

I know I'm going to lose friends, and I'm going to go on the road less traveled with less people. But at the end of the day, I'm not trying to make friends; I'm trying to make the most money possible.