Quotes About Success

People always think that success will bring happiness, that money will bring happiness. Success does not breed happiness. Positive energy breeds happiness and happiness breeds success.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. Every businessman has used the vast American infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make his money.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

We're a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we'll never be stopped.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" person. . . . Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Among the first to land was the 22-year-old Hieu Van Le, a future governor of South Australia.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Well it looks like the road to heaven But it feels like the road to hell When I knew which side my bread was buttered I took the knife as well Posing for another picture Everybody's got to sell But when you shake your ass They notice fast And some mistakes were built to last.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

to be an American, a citizen of what I believe to be, despite its many serious imperfections, the most open, the most free, the most just society in all of human history. In America no one should be guaranteed success, but everyone should have a fair chance to succeed.

If you want people to work hard and succeed, there are times when you've got to let them find their own way. Overmanaging is a constant danger.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

You want to lead one day? Then learn how to follow.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.