Quotes on Success

I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.