951 private quotes tagged success

“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

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“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.” — Golda Meir

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

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“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” — Mary Kay Ash

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“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” — Bo Bennett

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“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.” — Ralph Marston

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“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.” — Jean Kerr

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“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.” — William Hazlitt

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“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.” — John Madden

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“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.” — Hedy Lamarr

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

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“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.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.” — James Dyson

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“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.” — Charles Kendall Adams

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“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.” — Henri Matisse

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“We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.” — River Phoenix

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“There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.” — Paul Bryant

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“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.” — Bo Bennett

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“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” — Ben Stein

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“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier

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“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.” — Umberto Eco

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“Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.” — Navjot Singh Sidhu

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“Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.” — Michelle Obama

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“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” — James Allen

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