Success Quotations | Page 6

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.

If you want to do well in life financially, then you have to start with dollars and cents. Those are details. So every penny means something. People who are successful tend to take care of those little things very well. And then they also accumulate credit, resources and do whatever it is that you need in life - that's a preparation for success.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.

Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board: read widely, learn the craft by whatever means you can - workshops and writing programs are ideal, but even self-study can work - apply what you learn, and persevere.

Success in football is impossible without a good school.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.

The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.