951 private quotes tagged success

“Success can't be forced.”— Loretta Young

“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.”— Marian Wright Edelman

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”— Nikola Tesla

“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.”— Alfred Adler

“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.”— Mark Zandi

“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”— Christie Hefner

“I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.”— Danica Patrick

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”— Zig Ziglar

“I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.”— Tom Brady

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”— Dan Millman

“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”— Joseph Addison

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”— Brian Tracy

“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”— Sting

“The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.”— Joan Jett

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”— Colin Powell

“The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.”— Denis Waitley

“I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.”— Kat Dennings

“It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.”— Michael Pitt

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”— Mickey Rooney

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”— Dennis Prager

“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.”— Mike Krzyzewski

“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.”— Sam Donaldson

“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.”— Audrey Hepburn

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”— Barbara Bush

“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.”— Vince Lombardi