success

"Success is suffocating. The air is thinner at the top."

"Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone."

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

"When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same."

"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."

"Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs."

"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

"Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end."

"Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives."

"If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading."

"Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have."

"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world."

"It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!"

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."

"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."

"Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else."

"Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success."