Success Quotes

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

"I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"Success is not just about money, it's about a way of life. It's about having a positive impact on the people around you"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"Success in business is not about being the biggest, it's about being the best"

John Fredriksen, Businessman

"The key to success is not just hard work, it's smart work"

John Fredriksen, Businessman

"I always say that success is measured in adversity, not in good times"

John Fredriksen, Businessman

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"My literary success meant nothing to me"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"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"

Joan Chen, Actress

"So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools"

Bob Riley, Politician

"True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well"

Bill Owens, Politician

"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

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

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"Success - it's what you do with what you've got"

Woody Hayes, Coach

"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"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Success takes us to the top and away from those we love"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"Successful people breed success"

Phil Crosby, Author

"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"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?""

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

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