Success consists in being successful not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace but there's no palace till it's built.

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

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion dedication hard work and being in the right place at the right time.

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

There's more to life than success and if you can try to be more well-rounded you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

I always think when there's stuff that people don't like I always say that if I have another success I'll enjoy it more but you don't really.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had there's been very little critical review of my work which is pretty fascinating.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries in Catholic countries a successful person is a sinner.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume that it's just a mind set that it's just an addiction then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

When it comes to success there are no shortcuts.

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

There is no success without hardship.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success and there is no other.

To many a man and sometimes to a youth there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

I'm an addict I'm addicted to success. Thankfully there's no rehab for success.

In inner-city low-income communities of color there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

If we become one of those societies that attack success why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The battle of life is in most cases fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for there would be nothing to be achieved.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.