Quotes About Success

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?