We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

If success is a habit it is a hard one to acquire.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself beat your own record from day to day and you are a success.

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

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

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.

While I was doing stand-up I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no and I even wore a few dresses.

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

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

When I prayed for success I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

When it comes to success there are no shortcuts.

Desire is the key to motivation but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Success is not in what you have but who you are.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends at least in part on the ability to 'carry it off.'

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

After my spectacular failures I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

There is no success without hardship.