Quotes About Success

Runners experience success at a variety of times in their careers, and a thoughtful coach can point out positive facts about progressing as a runner. The fact that some runners progress rather quickly should not discourage those who are taking longer to progress

dropped into France to organize the Maquis in the Vosges Mountains. He did damned well

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is 'success', the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

you are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything.

I'm like a thinner younger Major Hoople who really had a small taste of early success but then lost it and came home to live off his mother and sister but goes on writing and acting like an author

It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. 

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not. And history tells of opportunity that came to the slaves who rose to the purple. No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was to know it when it came to them.

Who Has Won to Mastership

Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing. Source: Wikipedia

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.

Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had, what, a 10-year run?

You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.

I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.

I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.

'Twilight' was a cult film, and the books were huge, but after 'New Moon,' it really blew up.

I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

It's just a tremendous feeling that you come from losing your father at 3 years old, to now, you and your twin brother in the NFL. A dream.

I was doing 'Twin Peaks,' and Columbia called and said they wanted me to do 'Gladiator.' I thought it had the potential to be a real commercial film, so I was like a kid in a candy store.