Quotes on Success

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.