Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot.
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
The road to success is always under construction.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
A bestseller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you won't be promoted.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fame is a magnifying glass.
Great hopes make great man.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Success is the child of audacity.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
I believe in the paradox of success through failure.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
