Quotes About Success

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success a victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

One more thing about the backlash personality type: every single one of the bitter self-made men of my youth was a believer in the power of positive thinking. If you just had a sunny disposish and kept everlastingly at it, they thought, you were bound to succeed. The contradiction between their professed positiveness and their actual negativity about nearly everything never seemed to occur to them.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Great hopes make great men.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Care and diligence bring luck.

This tendency to focus too heavily on the occasional success is helped along by an asymmetry in the way we evaluate success and failure. A single success generally does more to confirm a strategy's effectiveness than a single failure does to disconfirm it. Indeed, successes tend to be taken as prima facie evidence that the strategy is effective.

Successes, in other words, are generally seen as confirmations of one's underlying strategy, whereas failures tend to be thought of only as failures of outcome, not as failures of strategy.

By carefully scrutinizing and explaining away their losses, while accepting their successes at face value, gamblers do indeed rewrite their personal histories of success and failure. Losses are often counted, not as losses, but as "near wins.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,He had not the method of making a fortune.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field…. Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.