I think you can have moderate success by copying something else but if you really want to knock it out of the park you have to do something different and take chances.

Do something you really like and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned that's success.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife my three children some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Which is - you know like check it out I'm pretty young I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right?

Anytime you play a team sport the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded in touch in love connected emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now so I feel really good about myself.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensable to talent if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

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.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So to keep in touch with that I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being everything else is gravy I think.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Although in skating you compete with other people anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better learn more learn faster is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is and I love God.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

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.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.