success

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

"NEVER be surprised by your own success!"

"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well."

"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for."

"One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation."

"Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was."

"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."

"What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?"

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."

"The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true."

"Every failure is a step to success."