Quotes About Success

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

I started out as a duo with Mis-Teeq's Sabrina Washington, and we worked for four or five years before signing a record deal. I had no money, and I was taking part-time jobs just to earn the train fare to get to rehearsals.

Lekha Washington is a very successful, award-winning product designer, and her company has made some fantastic products in the past few years. Comments from some men calling her 'failure' makes me laugh, really.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

I was going to be a late bloomer but I was going to bloom spectacularly.

But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

What do I mean by this? The fear of being called "all that" and the demonization of girls who appear assertive or self-satisfied force underground the very behaviors girls need to become successful. Confidence and competition are critical tools for success, yet they break the rules of femininity. Openly competitive behavior undermines the "good girl" personality.

You can't own your victories if you won't admit your failures.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

I figure a kid who takes that much pride in doing the small jobs the right way won't fail when it comes to the big ones.

The best things in life don't come from taking the easy path, do they?

I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

Successful people will always have more failure stories than success to tell.

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.

Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.

It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.

What you achieve, endures throughout time

Everything that is worth winning, is worth loosing as well.

Let not it be said that you failed,because you never tried. Believe in yourself and your dreams you will pursue..The choice is yours and it's all up to you,to just do..