Quotes About Success

In the past, I'd felt I didn't want to try something because I might get shot down for it. I'd tried it with England, and the goalkeeper - I think it was against Poland - saved it. This time, it came off.

I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.

I think every single win, every single pole has felt new and different in its own way. I've not got bored of it.

It's good to get a good lap and get pole.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.

We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

I'm happy to be part of the UFC and I'm happy to be the first Polish champion and the first European women's champion.

The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.

I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

Even at our height, we were never very polished.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'