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" There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is. "

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" Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday. "

Michael E. Gerber

" I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson. "

" Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do. "

" Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind. "

" Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. "

" Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. "

Marcus Aurelius

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

W. Clement Stone

" The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Fear is not one of my attributes. "

" When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start. "

" If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. "

Ernest Hemingway

" The road to success is always under construction. "

" In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence. "

" After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. "

" There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success. "

" Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles. "

Russell M. Nelson

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

" Academic success depends on research and publications. "

Philip Zimbardo

" Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success. "

" The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. "

John C. Maxwell

" There's no abiding success without commitment. "

" Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. "

Edward Carpenter

" The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. "

" There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle. "

" Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. "

Oliver Goldsmith

" I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. "

" I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far. "

" Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. "