951 private quotes tagged success

“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.” — Brendan Fraser

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“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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“My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.” — John Legend

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“I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.” — Colin Farrell

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“Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.” — Lucy Powell

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“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.” — Arthur Helps

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“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.” — Anne Rice

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“I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.” — Kirk Hammett

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“That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.” — Monica Seles

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“Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.” — Anne Rice

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“Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.” — Donny Osmond

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“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.” — Claude M. Bristol

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“Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.” — Bernie Mac

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“I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.” — Alain de Botton

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“You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.” — Joe Nichols

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“A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.” — Alec Waugh

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“I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.” — Billy Sheehan

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“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.” — Edward B. Butler

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“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.” — Nicki Minaj

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“My literary success meant nothing to me.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.” — P. G. Wodehouse

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“I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'” — Larry Hagman

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“There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.” — Jodi Picoult

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“With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.” — Donny Osmond

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