Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet.
Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.
Every one has strengths. Turn your strengths into competencies for your success and you are responsible for your success
Success will not come when you read success Quotations .It won't leave once you inspired and apply it.
Do you have a mind open to everything? Being open to all possibilities is a key to success.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.
I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even rea...
He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothi...
It’s been said that the most successful people are often early risers. So that’s why I started getting up in the afternoon, which is well before any “successful” person even thinks of going to bed.
The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effe...
A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
