951 private quotes tagged success

“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 your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.” — Alex Rodriguez

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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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“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.” — Jean Cocteau

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“Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.” — Robert Baden-Powell

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“My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” — Michelle Obama

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“I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.” — Adam Carolla

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“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?” — Jean Cocteau

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

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“Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.” — William J. H. Boetcker

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“There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.” — Javier Bardem

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“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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“The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.” — John Maynard Keynes

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“Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.” — Mae West

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“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.” — Marquis de Sade

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“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.” — Dirk Benedict

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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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“I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.” — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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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“It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.” — Roger Goodell

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