I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be measured by profitability and growth alone.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.
Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.
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.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls 'the integrity of the game.' The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.
Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
