Quotes About Success

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.