Quotes About Success

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keeping your mouth shut.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Don't let doubt enter into your heart. Stop it in its tracks where it starts—in the mind. Replace every doubtful thought with a faith thought and speak the Word! If you live like this, talk like this, and do this on a consistent basis, you are going to be a success.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

As black people, we must recognize that our real battle is with ourselves, not with society. It is not racism but the civil rights establishment, with its victim-centered mentality and irrational fury at white America that mentally cripples blacks, teaching them to find the means of success outside of themselves in government programs, and urging them to find the origin of their greatest problems in white society.

If people adopt the values that make for personal success—hard work, careful spending of money, sustained effort, delayed gratification—and keep themselves psychologically healthy by rejecting rage and resentment as the controlling attitudes of their lives, they will do well.

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

If you have timed the movement correctly, your first commitment will show you a profit at the start.

if you are successful, most people are envious and they covet your success

if there was any easy money lying around, no one would be forcing it into your pocket.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing

Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.