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.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first being in the right place at the right time and second doing something about it.

From success you get a lot of things but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

My success and my misfortunes the bright and the dark days I have gone through everything has proved to me that in this world either physical or moral good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide but one thing is certain no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.