The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.
~By Terrell Davis ~
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
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.
~By Alain de Botton ~
And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
~By Missy Elliot ~
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
~By James A. Lovell ~
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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.
~By Matthew Perry ~
Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
~By John Sexton ~
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
~By Vince Gill ~
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
~By David Brainerd ~
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
~By Neil Innes ~
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction.
~By Barbara Harris ~
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~By Colin Powell ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Academic success depends on research and publications.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
~By Sloan Wilson ~
Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
~By Bill Kurtis ~
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
~By David Geffen ~
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
~By Frederic William Farrar ~
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
~By Alice James ~
Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
~By Frederick Reines ~
I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.
~By Robert Barany ~
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.
~By Ian Jackson ~
Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.
~By Martin Frost ~
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~By James Allen ~
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
~By Alain de Botton ~
We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
~By Gloria Vanderbilt ~
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
~By Walt Alston ~
Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
~By Robin Day ~
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
~By Joseph Heller ~
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
~By Alfred Kastler ~
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
~By Joan Chen ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
~By James Thurber ~
I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
~By Helen Reddy ~
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
~By Louis Finkelstein ~
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
~By Pat Metheny ~
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~By Colin Powell ~
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
~By Randy Johnson ~
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
~By Keith Miller ~
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
~By Aesop ~
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
~By George P. Shultz ~
But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
~By Omar Epps ~
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
~By George Soros ~
We've been probably to some degree too successful.
~By Karl Rove ~
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.
~By Robert McChesney ~
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
~By Alan Thicke ~
I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.
~By Donna Shalala ~
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
~By Glenn Miller ~
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
~By Kurt Lewin ~
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
~By Danny Glover ~
You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
~By Fred L. Turner ~
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
I'm astonished by my success.
~By Danielle Steel ~
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
~By James Gunn ~
Success is the sweetest revenge.
~By Vanessa Williams ~
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
~By Joel A. Barker ~
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
~By Sarah Caldwell ~
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.
~By Chuck Daly ~
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
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