Quotes About Success

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

I've never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.

The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

The objective is to win -- fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.