951 private quotes tagged success

“What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”— Jim Carrey

“I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”— Jim Carrey

“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”— Golda Meir

“There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?”— Kin Hubbard

“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.”— Bo Bennett

“Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'”— Donald Rumsfeld

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”— Jean Kerr

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”— Jean Cocteau

“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”— John Madden

“Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”— William J. H. Boetcker

“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.”— Hedy Lamarr

“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”— Aaliyah

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”— James Allen

“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.”— Alex Rodriguez

“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.”— Charles Kendall Adams

“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”— Henri Matisse

“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.”— James Dyson

“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.”— Bo Bennett

“There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.”— Paul Bryant

“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”— Ben Stein

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.”— Robert Collier

“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”— Umberto Eco

“Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.”— Navjot Singh Sidhu

“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”— Malcolm Forbes