Quotes on Success

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

My dream was to become a footballer, hope to become the best someday. And I worked for it. And I'll tell you that the work is the magic of success.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Give light, and people will find the way...

My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. There are no definitive answers in this game, no shortcuts. When you think you've got it all figured out, you can get humbled very quickly.

I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.