951 private quotes tagged success

“It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.” — George Jean Nathan

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“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“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

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“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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“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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“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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“Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'” — Donald Rumsfeld

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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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“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?” — Jean Cocteau

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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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“Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.” — William J. H. Boetcker

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“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.” — Malcolm Forbes

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

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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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“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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“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.” — Bo Bennett

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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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“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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“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.” — Elias Canetti

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