Quotes About Success

When he was drifting, thinking only about the next meal and night's sleep, when everything was packed tight in his chest, he had no sense of failure, of things not working out. Anything that worked at all worked out.

They stopped me from getting us there, but they didn't stop you from getting here. Ha ha.

Personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, is more than a barren life, it's a trivial one.

The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of freedom, of earned solitude, of choosing the walls she wanted to breakthrough, minus the burden of shouldering a tilted man. Unobstructed and undistracted, she could get serious and develop a plan to match her ambition and succeed.

When you fully commit to a goal, the focus of positive energy onto a desired result is like programming a missile to lock on to a moving target; the missile automatically pursues the target no matter how elusive it becomes. The act of commitment also attracts exciting, new opportunities to your doorstep, leading to dramatic changes in your life.

Perhaps you've noticed that successful people are not always the best or the brightest, the quickest or strongest. Yet they're always the ones who do whatever it takes to succeed. A goal without commitment results in a nonentity, and usually falls by the wayside from a lack of interest by its beholder.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One

Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

They say living well is the best revenge and we were already living well so we knew we'd already won.

Professional success has not cured Prince's interpersonal problems, it's just given him the space to not have to say sorry.

He was a man, and it was expected of him to achieve.

Stay here and do the packing and let the young one run all over California for you! Don't you always say the success of collecting is in the packing? You're the boss--take the most important role and stop moaning!

The greater your success, the greater the forces that will try to confine you.

It's lonely up in the top

Goals without deadlines aren't goals; they're merely directions.

A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves...

A veces hay que atacar a la gente con sus propias armas. El truco está en no mostrar ni la más mínima duda mientras se habla y en incluir al menos a un reconocido autor de éxito, preferiblemente a uno del que efectivamente se haya leído algo. Además, cuanto más exóticos y extranjeros sean los nombres, mejor.

And if I may give you a piece of advice: a clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves.…

You need never settle for second best. Never.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I've done tonnes of things that have not been successful -- movie after movie after movie that just went right in the toilet. You have to get yourself ready for those dips.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.