951 private quotes tagged success

“You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.” — Lou Gerstner

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“I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.” — Lee Ann Womack

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“There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.” — Anita Roddick

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“Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.” — Max Lerner

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“Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.” — John McEnroe

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“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.” — Nelson Rockefeller

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“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.” — Tom Petty

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“To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.” — Ian Botham

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“I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.” — Jim Davis

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“Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.” — Major Taylor

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“We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.” — Danny Boyle

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“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.” — Michael Korda

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“People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.” — Nate Silver

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“Success is the sweetest revenge.” — Vanessa Williams

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“It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.” — Shigeru Miyamoto

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“In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.” — Rand Paul

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“Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.” — Sammy Davis, Jr.

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“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.” — Anthony Trollope

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“Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.” — Fernando Pessoa

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“As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.” — Al Yankovic

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“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

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