Quotes About Success

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

God's desire is that we excel.

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.

God first, family second, career third.

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.