Quotes About Success

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

I think you get the picture. [1976] was a year that like all years, a lot of things happened in. People were on TV or in movies, they wrote songs that were liked more than other songs, while other people excelled at sports, and, as always, a lot of accomplished and famous people died.

As Winston Churchill said, 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

May I never wake up from the American dream.

Winning is overrated, because winning and losing are both your acceptance of being rated.

I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!

Somehow, we must give him hope and a vision for improving his character," she continued. "He must see the value in it and believe it's a real possibility for him to change and be successful.

If you hanker after accomplishment, you will aspect raw eggs and faultfinders.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.

The lack of confidence of the Negro in himself and in his possibilities is what has kept him down. His mis-education has been a perfect success in this respect.

Furthermore, if, after three generations the Negro colleges have not produced men qualified to administer their affairs, such an admission is an eloquent argument that they have failed ingloriously and should be immediately closed.

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all. The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Life was very good to me. Yet I also recall an increasing frequency of deep, inner pain. I remember days of depression. I can still feel the loneliness and the struggle. What was happening? I had every material thing and achieved all the success I could ask for. Yet I felt emotionally bankrupt.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.