Some Success Quotes

#1. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.

Michael Jordan

#2. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

#3. My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

Shelby Foote

#4. My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

Grace Slick

#5. Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

Rick Yancey

#6. I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

Andy Andrews

#7. I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

Steve Martin

#8. It must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

Douglas Adams

#9. If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

Richard Fleeshman

#10. And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something
David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky

#11. When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

Adam Duritz

#12. I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people ... especially comics.

Carrot Top

#13. Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.

Mac Miller

#14. I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.

Ravi Shankar

#15. I see that you are working this vampire angle with some success. And kudos. Lots of girls love that sensitive-undead thing. But I'd drop the whole musician angle if I were you. Vampire rock stars are played out, and besides, you can't possible be very good.

Cassandra Clare

#16. 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.

Satyajit Ray

#17. You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.

Paul David Tripp

#18. I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.

Will Smith

#19. The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

Andreas Katsulas

#20. And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

Sam Donaldson

#21. I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

Johnny Weir

#22. I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and ... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Mickey Rourke

#23. Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.

Gary Paulsen

#24. I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.

Todd McFarlane

#25. I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

Jess Row

#26. I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

Matt Walsh

#27. 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

#28. There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

Bill Vaughan

#29. 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

#30. Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

Virender Sehwag

#31. Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#32. People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

J. Cole

#33. You get some success. You run into some walls ... it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

Steve Ballmer

#34. I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.

Gillian Jacobs

#35. Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Colm Toibin

#36. If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Leontyne Price

#37. I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

George Clooney

#38. Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.

John Wooden

#39. But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Richard Marx

#40. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK

Elie Jerome

#41. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

Rob Dyrdek

#42. I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Robin Hobb

#43. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#44. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Arthur Hailey

#45. All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

John Henry Comstock

#46. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

#47. One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

Diane Warren

#48. Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Eckhart Tolle

#49. We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Honore De Balzac

#50. We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?

Archibald Marwizi

#51. In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

Steve Pavlina

#52. I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Honore De Balzac

#53. Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

Richard Rohr

#54. New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.

Auliq Ice

#55. To achieve any success we have to endure some pain.

Debasish Mridha

#56. The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Edward De Bono

#57. He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success." It

Jon Ronson

#58. There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

Margaret Thatcher

#59. People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Katy Perry

#60. Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.

Jules Verne

#61. Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.

Sachin Tendulkar

#62. I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

#63. If you care at all,you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.

Edward Simmons

#64. 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

#65. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.

Renee Fredrickson

#66. We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

Guy Laliberte

#67. A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Cecil Beaton

#68. To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed

Agona Apell

#69. In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

Brandi L. Bates

#70. You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

Fred Brooks

#71. Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

Tyrone Power

#72. What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side ... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance.

Steve Maraboli

#73. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.

Reese Witherspoon

#74. If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.

Mary Harron

#75. Some days success just means not giving up.

Steve Roggenbuck

#76. I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#77. I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

Susan Isaacs

#78. Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.

Sophia Amoruso

#79. Get up and move at work today! Don't spend the whole day on your butt. Take a walk. Get some exercise. Play a game. Move!

Alexander Kjerulf

#80. Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America - which means that at some level you've made peace with its rather ugly past.

Vijay Iyer

#81. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Queen Elizabeth II

#82. If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

Jesse Eisenberg

#83. You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy.

Roopleen

#84. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.

Archibald Marwizi

#85. My audience is a huge part of my success, so I see us as a team. They send me tons of song requests every day. Some of the songs I've never heard before, but I listen to them and then pick the ones that I love.

Lindsey Stirling

#86. Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#87. I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.

Charles Hermite

#88. The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found herself quaking at the thought that the boat might have put off again and left her. The

Henry James

#89. I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

Samuel Johnson

#90. Uniqueness Leads To Great Success Some men see things as they are and say 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'why not?' --George Bernard Shaw English Dramatist (1856-1950)

John Paul Carinci

#91. All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

Eric Thomas

#92. Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Pearl S. Buck

#93. You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

Jerry Moran

#94. Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody's on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

Andrew Sharp

#95. I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#96. One of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some of the crazy genes, you don't end up crazy; you merely end up different. And it's that difference that gives you an edge, that makes you successfull.

Douglas Coupland

#97. It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.

Anthony Liccione

#98. There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,
health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.

Jim Rohn

#99. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

#100. Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

Richard M. Weaver