951 private quotes tagged success

“I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.” — Alan Shepard

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“I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.” — Joe Nichols

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“The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.” — Matthew Perry

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“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.” — Sparky Anderson

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“The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.” — Arthur Henderson

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“Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.” — Michael Flatley

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“I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.” — Puff Daddy

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“Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.” — Leon Panetta

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“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.” — Sarah Caldwell

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“We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.” — Mike Peters

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“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” — Christopher Reeve

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“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” — Paul Getty

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“For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.” — Warren Farrell

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“I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.” — Paula Radcliffe

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“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.” — Mikhail Lermontov

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“But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.” — Jeff Goodell

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“I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.” — Kiana Tom

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“Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.” — Knute Rockne

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“I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.” — Idris Elba

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“The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.” — Natalie Imbruglia

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“I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.” — Steve Coogan

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“One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.” — Isabelle Adjani

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“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.” — Walter Pater

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“It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.” — Amy Tan

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“Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.” — Ben Barnes

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