951 private quotes tagged success

“The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.”— Gwen Stefani

“My definition of success is control.”— Kenneth Branagh

“Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.”— Jack Nicklaus

“In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.”— Lynn Johnston

“My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.”— Herbert Read

“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”— Howard Nemerov

“When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.”— Nigel Farage

“I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.”— Constance Baker Motley

“Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.”— Roberto Cavalli

“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”— Jessamyn West

“Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.”— Paula Radcliffe

“I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.”— George Michael

“When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.”— Kiana Tom

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”— Alan Greenspan

“I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.”— Rick Springfield

“It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.”— George Michael

“I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.”— Hugh Laurie

“Excess is success.”— Roberto Cavalli

“The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.”— Fiona Apple

“Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”— Vince Gill

“With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.”— Katherine Jenkins

“When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.”— Lauren Bacall

“Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.”— Murray Walker

“Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!”— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”— John Forbes Nash