Quotes About Success

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.

Increasing education options will give students greater opportunities to succeed in the classroom and allow students to graduate with skill sets necessary to go to college or into a career.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed. In Hollywood, it's very clear that you either play by the rules or make up your own. And I wanted to do it my way.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.

I don't know what drives me to succeed.

The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.