Half Success Quotes

#1. Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it.

Osunsakin Adewale

#3. It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

Claude Lelouch

#4. My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Adrien Brody

#5. I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

Melissa McCarthy

#6. Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.

Connie Kerbs

#7. With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.

Joe Staton

#8. The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

Gail Collins

#9. Self belief is half the job done. Rest is your hard work.

Saru Singhal

#10. Failure results from lack of focus and half trust. Success results from complete devotion and utmost trust.

Debasish Mridha

#11. If life didn't give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

Henry Ford

#13. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand

#14. The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

John Howard Yoder

#16. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

David Ambrose

#17. I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Jessica Savitch

#18. Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

John C. Maxwell

#19. I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

Cameron Mackintosh

#20. There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

Aleister Crowley

#21. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Baz Luhrmann

#22. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Og Mandino

#23. I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

Moss Hart

#24. If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

Zainab Salbi

#25. Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

Faye Dunaway

#26. It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#27. It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

Marlene Dietrich

#28. We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden

#29. I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

Beth Brooke

#30. I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

Justin Timberlake

#31. Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

David Ogilvy

#32. It's an old and sad story. The artist lets the bottle or the dope get between him and his art. He spends half his life achieving success and the second half throwing it all away. How many talents have self-destructed before him? How many more will follow in his wake?

H. Joaquin Jackson

#33. When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

Arthur Golden

#34. Within half an hour almost all the women were drunk, a yardstick Laing had long used to measure the success of a party.

J.G. Ballard

#35. Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#36. I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.

Kate O'Mara

#37. Whether we are working to improve our health, wealth, personal achievement, or professional enterprise, the difference between triumphant success or bitter failure lies in the degree of our commitment to seek out, study, and apply those half-dozen things

Jim Rohn

#38. You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

Robert McChesney

#39. It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing is taking the instrument out of the case. To begin is to be half done!

Joey Reiman

#40. To be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel De Cervantes

#41. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

#42. Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

Eric Thomas

#43. You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Henry David Thoreau

#44. If you can begin with enthusiasm and confidence, you are half way to success.

Debasish Mridha