Success Quotes
“I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.”
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
-- Ben Stein
“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”
-- Michael Korda
“People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”
-- Kate Moss
“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”
-- John Hodgman
“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
-- Graham Greene
“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.”
-- Vera Wang