Quotes About Success

You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.' I think you have to love what you're doing to do it well.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

Everyone knows and loves Elton John's music, but the true story of his life is so incredible that it can only be described as a fantasy.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.

I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly.

A real blockbuster is one where everyone, from a small technician to a distributor, gets profits. The true success of a film is when every person involved is happy.

Of all the federal agencies created by Congress, one of the true success stories is the 'Mine Safety and Health Administration', which grew out of a bipartisan effort in 1977.

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

It was a big deal to leave home and my culture and my language. But I believed that in America, I could truly reap what I sowed and that the measure of a man was his ability and determination to succeed. This was the land of boundless opportunity.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed.