Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.
The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.
The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Success is based on your perspective.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.
My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
The road to success is always under construction... there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.
Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.
You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.