“I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.”

“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.”

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”

“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”

“Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.”

“When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.”

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”

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

“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.”

“Every failure is a step to success.”

“I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.”

“While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.”

“Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.”

“Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.”

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”

“The secret of my success is my hairspray.”

“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.”