What Is Success Quotes

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

Success has many fathers; failures have none.

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot. But they’re both great.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

The key to success is to love what you do or to do what you love, no matter if you're doing it big time or in a small way.

As long you feel complete, loved and happy with a purpose, and you have the appreciation for every little thing that surrounds you, that's success for me.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.