Quotes About Success

You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday – he was in his office, writing the books that made the lifestyle possible.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous – it happened so quickly.

"Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends."

"Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world."

If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.?

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows."

Work is just something I'm doing until I win the lottery.

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

"Physicians of all men are most happy; what good success they have, the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit, the earth coverith."

"Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station."

"When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes."

"We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are."

"Success has many fathers, failure is a mother."

"Life only delivers to people that create their own postal code."

"The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded."

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it??

"Behind every successful man is a woman – with nothing to wear."

"Watching a person who successfully loses fifty pounds and changes her life is more inspirational than listening to a fitness coach with a perfect body."

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attention of people who formerly snubbed you."

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took 20 years."

"A gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep."

It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.