Success Quotes
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack.
If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed.
I really resent being liked openly. I don't find any challenge in being liked.
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense ... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.
Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.
The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.