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The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

I am not bound to win, but i am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but i am bound to live up to what light i have.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

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.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Reading more books will only confuse you more and you will be dreaming about success instead of becoming successful yourself.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

There is no success without hardship.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success or are they holding you back?

Success is the sum of details.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

...If there is no risk there is no reward.

We learned about honesty and integrity that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

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.

Struggle and strife come before success; even in the dictionary.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

The secret of success is sincerity.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Success is the child of audacity.

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing a driver must never remember.

A strong, positive self image is the best possible preparation for success.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Success certainly isnt achievement of popularity. Success in Gods kingdom is loving God loving one another and being faithful to what Hes called us to do.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win essential to success.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Success is achieving your goals and objectives with happiness love and glory

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.

Self trust is the first secret of success.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Communication the human connection is the key to personal and career success.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch goddess SUCCESS. That with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

It's not enough that I should succeed others should fail.

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

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

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

Success is dependent on effort.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Success in business today requires real time, mobile access to business opportunities.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Perseverance a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right to feel worthy and to be successful. Its a choice you have to make faith you have to have and its a truth about you that you only need to see.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Anything worthy is worth the fight

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

When the Prince comes into your life you will stop thinking and start reasoning.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self esteem, and personal satisfaction.

The journey is the reward.

If you try and lose then it isnt your fault. But if you dont try and we lose then its all your fault.

We will either find a way, or make one.

I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity, and then there was none.

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure try to please everybody.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

The interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

The delusions of self love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self respect you have enough . . .

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

While I was doing stand up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone You would never do the things that you need to do.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

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?

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women not just people who belong to the union.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

Fame and success are very different things.

You can never have real success till you meet the real person YOU.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.- Wayne Dyer

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

You know, I start with the assumption that or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

We learned about gratitude and humility that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

The path to truly new, never been done before things always has failure along the way.

I was very blessed with ‘N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

Without an open minded mind, you can never be a great success.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Success is failure turned inside out.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Do the best you can with what you can while you can and success in inevitable.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand in hand with financial success.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! and get busy and find out how to do it.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

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.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

Success will ruin your life.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

To succeed in retail you have to love it. The process of bringing items in displaying them attractively and seeing them miraculously change into actual cash in the drawer has to get your blood racing.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

He who does it first may do well, but he who does it best will do better.

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Success is like a fart only your own smells nice.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

We must be the epitome the embodiment of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success becomes an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

They succeed, because they think they can.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

Success is dependent upon the glands sweat glands.- Zig Ziglar

Hip hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

The Lord gave us two ends one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

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

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Without new ideas success can become stale.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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 overcome while trying to succeed.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

To double your success, triple what you spend on personal development and professional learning. The person who know the most becomes the best.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I'm astonished by my success.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake up call. And so, life goes on.

I am a one success man.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

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

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

There is a good side to every situation.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Nothing recedes like success.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction.

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Participate in your own dreams dont just say what you want or complain about what you dont have.

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

To do more for the world than the world does for you that is success.

Bukan doa orang lain yang membuat anda sukses atau gagaltapi karena anda telah mengaminkannya sadar atau tak sadar.

Success can't be forced.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

Success is like electricity just waiting to be harnessed.

The road to success runs uphill.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

We fall forward to succeed.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

My definition of success is control.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I have not failed. I

Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel when we get dumped or we win employee of the month depends on how we interpret that event.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

The planet does not need more successful people.  The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

There is only one success to be able to spend your own life in your own way.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Your success will be compromised by your need to be liked by everyone.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

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.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

This bikini made me a success.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

The sweet music of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which clicks.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

Racing is about discipline and intelligence not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

The secret code of success is patiencea virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Dont look back.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

If at first you dont succeed your are running sbout average.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

No foreign policy no matter how ingenious has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Success is never final, but failure can be.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me not success.- Hugh Jackman

There is plenty of room at the top - but no place to sit down.- Source Unknown

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves but Im telling you thats a pretty illusion.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Sometimes its better to fail with pride than to succeed at a price

If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.