Quotes About Success

For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.

Regardless where I am in life or how much money I got, I still enjoy it, but I grind it out. I continue wanting to do more, wanting to be better and achieve more.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I understand that it's a business, but I feel like good business would be wanting to make a player who performed at a high level on your team happy and want to feel like he wanted to be kept and feel like they wanted him to play here forever.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.

My big sister's an engineer, my oldest brother is a lecturer at Cambridge University, another is a kidney specialist, another is an engineer, one set up his own business, my other sister's training to be a teacher and there's me wanting to be a presenter.

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

I don't know if I'll ever feel like I've made it. That is part of the reason why all of us, as artists, are always wanting more and working towards more and keeping busy. There is just so much that we all want to accomplish, and I just have so many goals that I haven't met yet.

That's the insecurity with our job, because you never know where the next role is coming from. No matter how successful you are, there's always a fear of someone not wanting me to play something else.

I think the biggest part of being on a sound system is wanting to always be the best.

The mentality of wanting to win has come into my game more.

I'm not really wanting to be famous.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Most biopics are stories of people who achieve something. It's an easier graph, a rags-to-riches story, or wanting something and reaching that. Sanju's life is not actually a case like that.

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

It's always been a battle for me between personal goals and wanting to be able to share the success I've had with my family. And I guess as I've gotten older, I've kind of realized, you know, you can do all these cool things, but if you don't have people in your life to share it with, what's the point?

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.

I have never gone into a competition wanting to lose. I have always gone in wanting to win.

The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.

I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.