The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
My adoption journey fully fuels my inspiration, my drive, what my vision of success is.
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
Success is not something I’ve wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that’s true, big-time success. If not, it’s much ado about nothing.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people’s lives.
You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that’s not my journey.
Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.
Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It’s the approval of your peers.
Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn’t just happen. It’s people who stick to it that succeed.
To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
Success is never going to come in the way your teenage self sees it.
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can’t gauge things by album sales.
To achieve success wasn’t to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.
In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
The greatest obstacle to success is an excuse.
The only durable sense of success is if you’ve followed your calling.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
One reason I’ve had success is that I try to think of everyone around me as more important than myself – teammates, coaches, equipment guys, everybody.
I think that success is having fun.
The secret to my success is persistence.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Success is really about your mindset.
Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It’s more like a heap of stones – a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That’s how I see it.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
I think most of my success is my dedication, not my talent.
Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
And I don’t think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
Success is dependent on effort.
I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It’s not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Success is measured differently by different people.
I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you that money was a big factor in signing for Bare Knuckle – we’re prize fighters, and our success is measured by the size of our purse.
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
The road to success is always under construction.
The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.
Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.
I know that my life is a miracle and because of that, I can’t think my success is because I was so great at this, that or the other. A lot of things happened and came together. A lot of people went out of their way for me.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
I believe that great success is possible in any field – from music to mathematics to macro trading.
I’ve had a very unusual background in science – not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.
There’s a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It’s just not the case.
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
I still have the desire to succeed, and I’ve always felt success is measured by what you’ve done in the win column, not top 10s.
I’m not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.
I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren’t enough of them to make me a very successful artist. To me, being successful is selling a lot of records and selling out big venues on tour, and it’s not up to anyone else to decide what success is for me.
Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.
The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
Success is not a stop sign.
For someone, success is to be the highest paid actress. For some, it might be the number of awards, and for some, it is the number of films. Honestly, I feel privileged when a celebrated filmmaker offers me a role so that I can be a part of his vision. That is success for me.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.
Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
I used to think that success was being the number one, being everywhere, being the star, and nowadays, I think that success is to make big things happen.
Success is like a drug.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That’s one way of seeing the world. It’s dog eat dog. It’s, sadly, always going to be there.
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
The definition of success is that the company doesn’t miss a beat. Do I love what I do? Oh yeah – I love it more than ever. You’ve got to have that energy level 24/7. But you’ve also got to make sure the transition is smooth. Being realistic, most high-tech companies haven’t done that well.
