Great Success Quotes

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.

I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid. I love movies and I could write screenplays. I love theater and I could write plays. I mean, they would be my own, I could never write what was used to be called the well-made play. But my first play, "Little Murders," turned out to be a great success and a great influence on plays at that time.

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the question of governance. Excellence requires a firewall between trusteeship, or government ministries, and the academic decision-making process. This American concept of shared governance wherein the faculty are engaged in running the university as part of a collaboration with the other stakeholders.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

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.