Quotes About Success

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.

Execution is the chariot of genius.