It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best. ' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
When we have public success we also have private struggles.
Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Success is best when its shared
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
Know that you are great. . . so dominate.
Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.