Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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.
Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.
Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.
The pie of success is undoubtedly big enough for everyone to work hard enough for it and get a hefty slice.
Success is the only possible outcome when one vows to never stop moving forward.
Great nations are built by great people, not just successful people
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Most successful people move from fear to failure; to faith and then to fruitfulness. That's the trend.
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.
