I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
~ Jack Nicholson
When you win, nothing hurts.
~ Joe Namath
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
~ Danny Thomas
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
~ Zig Ziglar
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
~ Anita Roddick
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
~ Sting
There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.
~ Marina And The Diamonds
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
~ Bradley Whitford
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
~ Sammy Davis
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
~ Barbara Walters
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
~ Lee Ann Womack
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
~ James Wolfe
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
~ Anthony J. D'angelo
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
~ Irving Berlin
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
~ John Foster Dulles
Why be a man when you can be a success?
~ Bertolt Brecht
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
~ Larry Flynt
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
~ Vince Gill
Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!
~ Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.
~ Kevin Rollins
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
~ Eddie Redmayne
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
~ Randy Bachman
If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.
~ Alan Ladd
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
~ Jeff Rich
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
~ Andre Benjamin
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
~ Marsha Sinetar
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
~ Jim Morrison
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
~ Galway Kinnell
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
~ Glen Hansard
I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.
~ Hozier
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
~ Sylvia Plath
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.
~ Robert Pinsky
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
~ Rita Dove
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
~ Mary Oliver
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
~ Anne Stevenson
