Motivation & Success: Success Quotes

"I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true"

Cybill Shepherd, Actress

"I will never feel successful"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"Some people would say I've made it now"

David Wenham, Actor

"I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am"

Anna Lee, Actress

"I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

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

Jonathan Winters, Comedian

"It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?"

Zac Hanson, Musician

"Is abundant success in all his honest undertakings"

George Morgan, Musician

"Success is always something that you have to recover from"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up, I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together"

Larry Dixon, Writer

"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price"

Jason Patric, Actor

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

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do"

Leontyne Price, Musician

"Well, concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh, I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me, it really made a big difference"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started"

Eddie Van Halen, Musician

"Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another"

Elaine Paige, Musician

"The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come, may depart again almost because of a whim"

Alice Foote MacDougall, Writer

"Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off"

David Naughton, Actor

"We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail"

Greil Marcus, Author

"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

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

Alan Price, Musician

"Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts"

Donny Osmond, Musician

"Every failure is a step to success"

William Whewell, Philosopher

"I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do"

Hank Snow, Musician

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

Danny Thomas, Actor

"I believe success is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later. But are you prepared to answer that?"

Omar Epps, Actor

"I'm living the American dream"

Dick Vitale, Celebrity

"I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way"

Helmut Kohl, Politician

"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others"

Chin-Ning Chu, Author

"The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service"

Donald L. Carcieri, Politician

"Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed"

Eddie Perez, Politician

"The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed"

Michael Patrick Jann, Actor

"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective"

Danny Bonaduce, Actor

"My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes"

Amy Weber, Actress

"Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation, but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"I had flops, I had success"

Agnes Varda, Director

Page 19 of 22