Motivation & Success: Success Quotes

"It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won"

Kevin Smith, Director

"When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of"

Ed Harris, Actor

"He's sitting in the catbird seat"

Red Barber, Celebrity

"This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am"

Judith Guest, Novelist

"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony Award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones"

Evan Hunter, Author

"We didn't really want to be an overnight success, as that brings with it its own problems"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"But as far as, for I think it will be amazing, you know, where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I, you know, it's crazy"

Brandon Routh, Actor

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

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you, all of sudden, people are calling you a success"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"To enjoy enduring success, we should travel a little in advance of the world"

John McDonald, Leader

"I asked my parents for permission to study in America, and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale, and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics"

Carrot Top, Comedian

"The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person"

Candace Bushnell, Writer

"I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty"

Boy George, Musician

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

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care"

Alain de Botton, Writer

"Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought"

Anne Wilson Schaef, Writer

"How success changes the opinion of men!"

Maria Edgeworth, Novelist

"I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"I’m from a small town in Virginia, I wasn’t the most talented kid in any respect but I was a dreamer and this is a representation of my dreams and all my ancestors and everyone who’s ever believed in me"

Shaboozey, Musician

"When you think about it, Tabitha Brown’s mega-success doesn’t quite make sense. Or at least not if you apply the rules of what success is 'supposed' to look like and who is supposed to have it, and when"

Tabitha Brown, Celebrity

"Growth solves (nearly) all problems"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

"The best way to be successful is to be relentlessly resourceful"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

"Success is not just about the physical aspect; it's a mental game as well"

William Bonac, Athlete

"I want to be known as a winner. That's all that matters to me"

Anthony Edwards, Athlete

"I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking"

Bliss Carman, Poet

"My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did"

Peter Straub, Writer

"I am a one success man"

Tom Baker, Actor

"I don't just want to be successful; I want to have fun"

Julie Brown, Actress

"I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful"

Carrie Underwood, Musician

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