Quotes on Success

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

Author: F. Abraham

Success is not defined by your achievements, but by the lives you touch along the way.

Author: Sophia Lee

Success is not defined by wealth, but by the impact you leave on the world.

Author: Maya Patel

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Author: Alvin Adams

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Author: Charles Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Author: Charles Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Author: Maude Adams

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Author: Phillip Adams

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Author: Scott Adams

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Author: Aeschylus

Embrace uncertainty, for within the chaos lie opportunities waiting to be discovered.

Author: Samantha Harper

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

Author: Clay Aiken

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Author: Greg Akcelrod

Do not be afraid to take risks, for it is through challenges that diamonds are formed.

Author: Jasmine Singh

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Author: Amos Alcott

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Author: James Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Author: Woody Allen

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Author: Chris Allsburg

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

Author: Walt Alston

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

Author: Sarah Johnson

The key to success is not to fear failure, but to embrace it as a stepping stone towards greatness.

Author: Sophia Adams

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Author: Henri Amiel

If you want to truly succeed, focus less on fitting in and more on standing out.

Author: Stephanie King

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Author: Sparky Anderson

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

Author: Sparky Anderson

This bikini made me a success.

Author: Ursula Andress

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

Author: Mario Andretti

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

Author: Victoria Angeles

Success is not defined by the trophies in your trophy case, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Michelle Obama

Adversity is the stone upon which the brightest diamonds are forged.

Author: Sarah Johnson

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

Author: Walter Annenberg

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Author: Fiona Apple

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Author: R. Apple, Jr.

True success is measured by how much kindness you spread, not by how much money you make.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Success is not defined by the money you make, but by the lives you touch and the hearts you inspire.

Author: Maya Angelou

Believe in yourself when everyone else doubts you; that is where greatness begins.

Author: Marie Curie

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Author: Karen Armstrong

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Author: Bea Arthur

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Author: Mary Ash

People fall forward to success.

Author: Mary Ash

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Author: Arthur Ashe

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Author: Arthur Ashe

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.

Author: Francis Aston

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Author: Nancy Astor

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Author: Chet Atkins

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Author: Francis Aungier

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

Author: Roy Ayers

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

Author: Roger Babson

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Author: Roger Babson

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Author: Joe Baca

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Author: Richard Bach

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Author: Randy Bachman

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Author: Jim Backus

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Author: Erykah Badu

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.

Author: Kenneth Baker

I am a one success man.

Author: Tom Baker

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Author: James Baldwin

The only true measure of success is the amount of kindness we spread in this world.

Author: Maya Angelou

Every obstacle is a stepping stone to greatness, embrace the challenges and let them shape your journey.

Author: Maya Angelou

True strength is not defined by how much weight you can lift, but by how many times you can lift yourself back up.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.

Author: Christine Baranski

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

Author: Jim Barksdale

Success is not defined by the number of followers you have, but by the impact you leave on those you encounter.

Author: Maya Angelou

The only limit to your potential is the extent of your imagination.

Author: Fiona Green

Success isn't just about reaching the top, it's about enjoying the journey to get there.

Author: Amanda Gorman

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Author: Ethel Barrymore

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

Author: Abu Bashir

A woman who is loved always has success.

Author: Vicki Baum

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Author: Vicki Baum

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Author: Vicki Baum

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

Author: Les Baxter

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

Author: Michael Bay

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

Author: Evan Bayh

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Author: Warren Beatty

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Author: Glenn Beck

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

Author: Glenn Beck

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

Author: Gerry Beckley

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

Author: Gerry Beckley

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Author: Henry Beecher

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Author: Henry Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Author: Henry Beecher

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Author: Max Beerbohm

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Author: Alexander Bell

True success is not measured by the wealth we amass, but by the impact we make on the world around us.

Author: Maya Angelou

The key to success is not just working hard, but also working smart.

Author: Taylor Nguyen

Success is not defined by the applause of others, but by the fulfillment of your own heart's desires.

Author: Maya Angelou

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Success is not defined by your accomplishments, but by the lessons you learn along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Author: Bo Bennett

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Author: Bo Bennett

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Author: Bo Bennett

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Author: Bo Bennett

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Author: Bo Bennett

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Author: Bo Bennett

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Author: Bo Bennett

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Author: Bo Bennett

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

Author: Julie Benz

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

Author: Julie Benz

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Author: Jose Bergamin

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Author: Michael Bergdahl

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Author: Ingrid Bergman

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Author: Irving Berlin

Don't be afraid to stand out in a crowd, for true greatness lies in embracing your own uniqueness.

Author: Melissa Mayer

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Author: Al Bernstein

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

Author: Brad Bird

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

Author: Susan Blackmore

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.

Author: Gary Blair

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

Don't wait for opportunities, create them. Your future is in your hands, not in the hands of fate.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Author: Allan Bloom

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Author: Orlando Bloom

True success is not just about reaching the top, but about staying true to yourself along the climb.

Author: Michelle Obama

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

Life is about balance. Finding the equilibrium between dreams and obligations will lead you to true fulfillment.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Success is not defined by the recognition you receive from others, but by the impact you make on the lives around you.

Author: Maya Angelou

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Author: Bodhidharma

Success is not about who you know, but about who knows you.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Author: William Boetcker

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Author: William Boetcker

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

Author: Leo Bogart

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

Author: Michael Bolton

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Author: Erma Bombeck

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

Author: Lisa Bonet

Success is not defined by the number of trophies on your shelf, but by the depth of joy in your heart.

Author: Maya Angelou

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Author: Max Born

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Author: Nelson Boswell

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

Author: Ian Botham

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Author: Alain Botton

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

Author: Lucien Bouchard

Success is not just about achieving your goals, but about staying true to yourself throughout the journey.

Author: Maya Angelou

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Author: Lara Boyle

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Author: Bill Bradley

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

Author: David Brainerd

My definition of success is control.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Author: Dorthea Brande