Quotes

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

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

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I'm quite laid-back but some people say I'm unemotional. I don't get carried away with success and similarly I don't get depressed when something bad happens. I didn't take it personally when rival fans threw banana skins at me when I was playing for Liverpool. I can't control 50,000 idiots shouting at me, so why would it bother me?

The teams which embrace the socialist ideology rather than having superstars, are the teams that are successful. Or if there are superstars they don't perceive themselves to be that. That's why I use Messi as an example. As much as he's a superstar he respects his team-mates and their collective efforts.

There is a misconception over whether black ex-players can make successful managers.

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

I believe in giving every Louisianan the opportunity to be successful and to thrive in our state.

Families are the foundation of our communities. Investing in the success of Louisiana families means we're investing in our success as a state.

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

It's logical and fair to allow only registered or self-identified Democrats to choose their party's nominee (although numerous states do have open primaries). Letting more non-Democrats choose the nominee doesn't guarantee success in a November general election. And it does nothing to encourage people to join and work for the party.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.