Quotes

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

The first time I won a medal in the all-around competition is when I realized that's what I wanted to do pretty much for the rest of my life. Even though I was still doing baseball and soccer at the time, I think I just found that that was more my passion, where I saw a lot more success... I was probably eight or nine years old.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

I think Britain can be one of the great success stories of the 21st century - we've got the talent, the drive, the connections around the world. But if we vote to Leave, then we lose control. We lose control of our economy, and if you lose control of your economy you lose control of everything. That's not a price worth paying.

It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

If we're going to be successful and be considered credible in the Hispanic community, we've got to denounce some of the ignorant statements that are made about Hispanics and the contributions we make, whether it's to the military, our nation's economy, or to the history of Texas.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their early to late 40s.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.

My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.