Quotes About Success

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

In that moment, success or failure would lose all relevance. The triumph was in the stance. In the defiance. Because this is the essence of life itself. Human and wild, in that moment we are all the same.

In success we shall find seeds of despair

Their reappearance on the plain was enough to announce their success and the Wickans raised a wail that ran through each clan's encampment, the sound as much sorrowful as triumphant, a fitting dirge to announce the fall of a god.

But it all turned out for the best, sir, didn't it?' 'Yup. But let's not let success undermine the patronizing certainty of our convictions.

Why not under the moon," the historian muttered. "Cool night air, stars high overhead with every spirit looking down. Now that would ensure success!" Bult

whoever decided that competition is always and without exception a healthy attribute?

A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either—after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one's own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster.