“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”

“I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.”

“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”

“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.”

“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”

“I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.”

“I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.”

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.”

“We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.”

“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”

“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”

“Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”

“Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.”

“Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.”

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”