Elusive Success Quotes

#1. Elusive success is not the same as failure.

Damon Throop

#2. I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

Billie Piper

#3. I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

K'naan

#4. Julian was a part of that, the beginning of battle and the cold of the middle of it and the fierceness of the fighting. There was nothing she wanted to look at more in the moments before a battle than his face. Nothing that made her feel more fully at home in herself, more like a Shadowhunter.

Cassandra Clare

#5. I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

Cindy Busby

#6. There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these stories, but confess I am not as interested in drawing them as the unfinished, elusive ones.

Sophie Blackall

#7. The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now.

Tim Pawlenty

#8. Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Steven Spielberg

#9. Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

Frank Sinatra

#10. Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

Joe Biden

#11. Little, Brown and Company

James Patterson

#12. Batman doesn't have to put up with this shit
why should we?

Caitlin Moran

#13. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.

Philip M. Rosenzweig

#14. Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Judith Light

#15. I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

Jack W. Szostak

#16. I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Dennis Lehane