Quotes About Success

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Everybody ain't happy for your success, but you don't let their feelings rob you of your happiness.

but any school that invited the Lord into every class was one that had to succeed.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

France has the largest, most lucrative cinema in Europe, making it the second most successful cinema in the Western world (a distant second, monetarily), and in terms of roles for women, it's unquestionably in the lead. When a French actress comes to America, she leaves a cinema interested in exploring her essence in favor of one that's not interested in anything about her, that's even hostile to the notion of making movies about women at all.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".

Be spirited, go beyond the body and exceed not just to succeed, let success beg you at your feet to be accepted by you with grace, that should be the case. Be thirsty for fulfillment, let your chase for success be neutralized, be centered in your being and get MickeyMized. THE WORLD WILL CONVERGE AT YOUR FEET THEN.

Do whatsoever with absolute conviction as there have been beggars who've lived like kings, and there have been kings who've lived like beggars so believe in your self and MickeyMize your life.

Don't be desperate to make money instead find ways to earn it. If you wish to attract Lakshmidevi, first impress devi Sarasvati and the rest will be effortless. So seek knowledge and wisdom and MickeyMize your life. Share this with all to have a wisdom based society and evolve.

Roads never existed before man did, they were built. So blast the rocks and make the roads, frogs leap higher than the toads, let your goals be super super-sized, make your own roads or fly and MickeyMize

There is enough room in the sky to accommodate as many stars, to shine. Reach out there and spread the light of your talent, brilliance of your art and let this world be illumined, get MickeyMized.