America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down - and some of my friends beaten up.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.

Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

My dad was the only son from his entire family to come to America, and I was his only son. We had come to the States to achieve security and success for our family. Rules were simple: No fun, no friends, no girls. Go to school, come home, and study.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Success has always been a great liar.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Academic success depends on research and publications.

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.