Success Quotes

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

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

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Fame and success are very different things.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're bei…

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the c…

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

I'm astonished by my success.

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the peop…

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give perform…

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.