I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.
Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.
If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Fame and success are very different things.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Success has always been a great liar.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.
I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Failure is a part of success.
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.