success quotes

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Dream and you shall become.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.