Quotes about Own Success

E-mail is a victim of its own success. Votes: 4

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. Votes: 4

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. Votes: 4

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. Votes: 4

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals. Votes: 4

We're endangered by our own success. Votes: 3

Become your own success story, not someone else's. Votes: 3

You are the conductor of your own success train. Votes: 3

The victor is often vanquished by his own success. Votes: 3

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success. Votes: 3

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided. Votes: 3

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others. Votes: 3

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. Votes: 3

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. Votes: 3

The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. Votes: 3

One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success. Votes: 3

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success. Votes: 3

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. Votes: 3

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. Votes: 3

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. Votes: 3

In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others. Votes: 3

Don't judge your success by what people think of you. You are your own success.Your determination and perserverence is what matters. Votes: 3

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go. Votes: 3

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. Votes: 3

When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment. Votes: 3

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success. Votes: 3

Do not be mad because someone is more successful than you are. What have you done lately to (en.hance), enhance your own success? Votes: 3

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success. Votes: 3

While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned. Votes: 3

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation. Votes: 3

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others. Votes: 3

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Votes: 3

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung. Votes: 3

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. Votes: 3

Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose. Votes: 3

It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude. Votes: 3

My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation. Votes: 3

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours. Votes: 3

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes. Votes: 3

What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success? Votes: 3

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us? Votes: 3

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success. Votes: 3

I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve. Votes: 3

You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself. Votes: 3

Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross. Votes: 3

Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering. Votes: 3

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity. Votes: 3

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success. Votes: 3

Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. Votes: 3

There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors. Votes: 3

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple. Votes: 3

We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended. Votes: 3

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages. Votes: 3

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost. Votes: 3

People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process. Votes: 3

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself. Votes: 2

I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms. Votes: 2

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything. Votes: 2

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success. Votes: 2

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Votes: 2

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. Votes: 2

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard. Votes: 2

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success. Votes: 2

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. Votes: 2

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own. Votes: 2

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Votes: 2

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. Votes: 2

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects. Votes: 2

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills. Votes: 2

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is. Votes: 2

Celebrate your people's success, not your own. Votes: 0

Authentic success is living by your own lights. Votes: 0

The only limit to success is your own imagination. Votes: 0

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own. Votes: 0

I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!) Votes: 0

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice. Votes: 0

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything Votes: 0

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power. Votes: 0

Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means Votes: 0

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success Votes: 0

I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth. Votes: 0

There is no one road to success, you must find your own route. Votes: 0

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward. Votes: 0

. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. Votes: 0

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds Votes: 0

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard Votes: 0

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. Votes: 0

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Votes: 0

Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure. Votes: 0

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success. Votes: 0

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.) Votes: 0

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it. Votes: 0

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. Votes: 0

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems. Votes: 0

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms. Votes: 0

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. Votes: 0

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf Votes: 0

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination. Votes: 0

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. Votes: 0

There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve. Votes: 0

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. Votes: 0

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success... Votes: 0

A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success. Votes: 0

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing. Votes: 0

..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will. Votes: 0

Success is like a locked door, to open and get it through, you need to create your own key. Votes: 0

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others. Votes: 0

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise. Votes: 0

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. Votes: 0

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case. Votes: 0

Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone. Votes: 0

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. Votes: 0

Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time. Votes: 0

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. Votes: 0

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. Votes: 0

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. Votes: 0

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions. Votes: 0

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success. Votes: 0

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own. Votes: 0

Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours. Votes: 0

We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God. Votes: 0

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. Votes: 0

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. Votes: 0

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation. Votes: 0

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. Votes: 0

Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success. Votes: 0

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself. Votes: 0

My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing. Votes: 0

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. Votes: 0

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. Votes: 0

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success. Votes: 0

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. Votes: 0

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support. Votes: 0

Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution. Votes: 0

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Votes: 0

Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities. Votes: 0

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. Votes: 0

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. Votes: 0

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too. Votes: 0

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. Votes: 0

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you're lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard. Votes: 0

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success. Votes: 0

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms. Votes: 0

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. Votes: 0

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life. Votes: 0

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. Votes: 0

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success. Votes: 0

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind. Votes: 0

The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill "˜em! Votes: 0

The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do. Votes: 0

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own. Votes: 0

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up. Votes: 0

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass. Votes: 0

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working. Votes: 0

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses. Votes: 0

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. Votes: 0

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success. Votes: 0

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live. Votes: 0

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause. Votes: 0

I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own. Votes: 0

While serving others, we are most likely to plead for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Success in the Lord's service always produces miracles beyond our own powers. Votes: 0

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success. Votes: 0

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees. Votes: 0

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds. Votes: 0

Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments. Votes: 0