There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. – Carl Lewis
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. – Knute Rockne
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success. – Steve Coogan
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album. – Natalie Imbruglia
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. – Mikhail Lermontov
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax. – Eva Green
Success comes in waves. – Guy Pearce
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. – Maria Bartiromo
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport. – Ian Botham
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. – Jean Genet
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. – Graham Norton
If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else. – Salman Khan
I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success. – David Schwimmer
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. – Alex Noble
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. – John J. Sweeney
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. – Katherine Dunham
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. – Robert Heller
I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake. – Bethenny Frankel
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. – Keith Henson
