Quotes About Success

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail." – Benjamin Franklin

The Advent movement was born in failure rather than success, error rather than truth, darkness rather than light, and sorrow rather than joy.

I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

In addition, if a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible), if self-esteem is tied primarily to accomplishments, success, income, or being a good family provider, the danger is that economic circumstances beyond the individual's control may lead to the failure of the business or the loss of a job, flinging him into depression or acute demoralization.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.