Quotes About Success

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Failure is my specialty.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.

When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Criticism is the price of ambition.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.

You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.

Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.