Words matter. These are the best Success Is Quotes from famous people such as Colin Powell, Omar Epps, George Allen, Sr., Mark Bonnar, Rumaan Alam, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Success is what you do with your ability. It’s how you use your talent.
Success is something that other people always point out. I don’t think one ever thinks of oneself as successful, because if you do, you’re going to immediately lose whatever it is that’s driving you, aren’t you?
Among this country’s enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.
I just hope that my success is in some way influencing other outlets to really be much more purposeful in promoting, advancing and recruiting people of color.
People still don’t appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn’t dependent on anyone else.
The idea of dealing with success is always interesting to us: You spend so long struggling to make good, and then what happens when you finally do?
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Success is sweet and treacherous.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
I should just put it bluntly, because we’re all sort of friends here now – it’s exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that’s the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o’clock in the morning, and I don’t want to go there.
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.
I know success; I’ve done it, but success is not what everyone thinks it is. It’s only a tool and a platform for a greater message. That’s where my nickname ‘The Messenger’ comes from. The UFC and a world title are a platform for something greater. For a bigger purpose.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I’ve continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.
My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody’s paying me to act!
I’ve made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I’ve mostly been successful.
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called ‘success’ of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty. This kind of ‘success’ is extremely harmful to all of society.
I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it’s something like 35 years or younger. In other words… success is no indication of longevity.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.
I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.
It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?
Success is always less funny than failure.
Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease.
As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can’t justify them, as they apply to people.
I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don’t win games. Players do.
You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance – a banker with no time with his kids, he’s not successful. If he doesn’t have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success – that is a mistake.
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
The most direct path to success is a good job, but the road to employment for those with criminal records is often riddled with barriers. Removing those barriers would allow those with records to leave the past behind, support their families, make a positive future – and improve our economy.
I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.
I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.
Success is not usually easy or fast.
Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.
The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that’s not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
You have people that know they have the talent, but sometimes they get scared when success is in their face.
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people’s skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
Success is the most important to many, to me it’s just a bonus.
I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.
Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
