Quotes About Success

What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass.

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

The Yankees lose so seldom, you have to celebrate every single time.

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

Im not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.

If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.