I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.
The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.
I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
Success is always something that you have to recover from.
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.
All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think...
