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

“Well, success does not mean doing well.”

-- Shirley MacLaine

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

-- Dale Carnegie

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

-- Dale Carnegie

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

-- Henry Ford

“Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.”

-- Henry Louis Gates

“It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.”

-- Carrot Top

“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

-- W. Clement Stone

“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.”

-- Booker T. Washington

“All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.”

-- Tom Peters