Quotes About Success

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Oh, sir, I'm glad you got home in time for Christmas," she said. "The children were counting on it. Did you have a successful trip, sir?" "Every trip is successful when you get home again," said Gissing.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!

Christopher Paul Curtis

And now the matchless deed's achiev'd,Determin'd, dar'd, and done.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

I think if you're ahead of your time, you've failed. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Specifically, the Lord longs for us to succeed: by moving our lives forward; … by causing us to prevail over the enemy of our souls; … by causing us to act wisely and strategically; by promoting us to new levels at the right season; and by helping us to achieve our destined purpose when we cry out to Him along our paths. In essence, as God's children, He longs for us to succeed even as He succeeds!6

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

I remembered the story of the bumblebee. Aerodynamically it is impossible for the bumblebee to fly. The body is too big for the small size of the wings, but apparently no one told the bumblebee that, so he flies! That's pretty much the story of setting goals. Nothing is impossible unless you believe it is." ~ 'Against All Odds: My Story

I remembered the story of the bumblebee. Aerodynamically it is impossible for the bumblebee to fly. The body is to big for the small size of the wings, but apparently no one told the bumblebee that, so he flies! That's pretty much the story of setting goals. Nothing is impossible unless you believe it is.

God leads you through failure so that when He works you will know for certain you are not responsible for the success.

Write as much as you can. As fast as you can. Finish your shit. Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to suck.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.