Quotes About Success

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

We grow small trying to be great.

I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

There are things to learn from people who have already done what you're trying to do.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

With the last couple of Pantera records, we kept getting more and more narrow-minded because of Phil. He didn't want to experiment or take any chances, and it was like being in a tube that was getting to be so small you couldn't even breathe. Personally, I think the dude was afraid of success.

I don't know what'll ever happen if I'm in a healthy relationship. My writing career will go down the tubes.