951 private quotes tagged success

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.” — Dan Millman

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“I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.” — Tom Brady

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“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.” — Christie Hefner

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“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.” — Mark Zandi

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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” — Nikola Tesla

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“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” — Doug Larson

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“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.” — Sting

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“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.” — Rita Rudner

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“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.” — Francois Truffaut

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“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.” — Ethel Waters

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“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.” — Charlotte Bronte

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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” — Godfrey Winn

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“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.” — Zig Ziglar

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“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.” — Johnny Depp

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“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” — Tony Dungy

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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” — Vaclav Havel

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“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.” — Grover Cleveland

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“That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.” — Robert Orben

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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.” — Orison Swett Marden

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