3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
3 December 2020 Alexander Graham Bell The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
3 December 2020 Roger Daltrey I don’t like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I’m pleased with Pete’s success but I don’t like what they’ve done to it.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
3 December 2020 Robert Collier The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
3 December 2020 Charles Kendall Adams No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
3 December 2020 Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
3 December 2020 Jay-Z Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.
3 December 2020 Kiana Tom When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
3 December 2020 John Cusack The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s a dollar figure attached to the box office.
3 December 2020 Vicente Fox The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
3 December 2020 Marlon Wayans Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
3 December 2020 Donny Osmond Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
3 December 2020 Kate Moss People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
3 December 2020 Ben Stein Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
3 December 2020 Amos Bronson Alcott Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
3 December 2020 Sidney Sheldon If there is any secret to my success, I think it’s that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
3 December 2020 Art Linkletter I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
3 December 2020 Denzel Washington I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Lermontov Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
