The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'

Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!'

The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.

I found when talking with many other women that they sometimes are more reluctant to toot their own horn, to talk about their success. They have to be more confident in doing that. That is not always the case, but there is that element that women don't put forth who they are.

I think it is a combination of looks, aura, success, the energies that one gives out, the person you are and the person you feel like that makes you 'desirable.' When the outside world sees you as a man who is responsible for himself and his family, as a man who is fit and sensitive, it kind of ups your desirability.

Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

You always have these moments when projects are over when you wonder if you'll ever work again. In the end, what it comes down to is that it's a fine line between becoming too enamored of your own success and maintaining the confidence to do what you do and do it well. That's the line every actor, if they're lucky, has to walk.

Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

One fails forward toward success.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

When you win, nothing hurts.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

Nothing recedes like success.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

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

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?