Success

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security, it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.

A band can define their own success.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I had flops, I had success.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side, and loss.

Success is not the absence of failure, it's the persistence through failure.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'

I believe, for an actor, both the success of his film and awards are equally important.

The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit, but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

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.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

'The Apprentice' was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself, he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

My greatest success story has been my family.

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too, and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances, we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

Nothing succeeds like success.

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.

I don't know how to measure success. I have been fortunate that I got exciting films to do and work with talented directors who brought out the best in me.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract, success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I measured my success by how many clients I had and how many billable hours I had.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

The downside to the Whole Foods experience is that its success is driven by one of our era's more grotesque phenomena: the upwardly-mobile urban dweller, the one who wants to indulge class-conscious epicurean yearnings and save the world, too.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I'm not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

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

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.

I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting, my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients desire to be. Los Cabos, Mexico is the ideal Engel & Volkers market, growing in popularity among world luxury travelers seeking exceptional properties for second home opportunities.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on 'Strictly' has changed my life.

I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.

Journalists constantly ask Metallica if the success of their new album means they've had 'the call' to record a Zeppelin cover album yet.

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.