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.”

-- Patrick Stewart

“Why be a man when you can be a success?”

-- Bertolt Brecht

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”

-- Jim Rohn

“Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.”

-- Lillian Hellman

“That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.”

-- Monica Seles

“Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.”

-- Paul Feig

“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.”

-- Alan Rickman

“All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.”

-- Manny Pacquiao

“American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.”

-- Rand Paul

“My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.”

-- Alton Brown