Top 833 Overnight Quotes & Sayings

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I cut my hair short and it basically changed everything overnight. I was about 18 when I cut my hair off - the little pixie haircut. Nobody had short hair at the time. Literally overnight everything changed. I worked with Steven Meisel within a month and a half and I booked every show. Then I got a Vogue cover - my first Vogue - and that came out a few months later.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

Change won't happen overnight.

I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years. A lot of people say I'm an overnight success, but it's an overnight success that's been twelve years in the making.

There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You don't just become a success overnight.

You don't just forget things overnight.

You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.

I don't believe in becoming famous overnight.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

Success doesn't happen overnight.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

Everybody wants the quick fix, but it doesn't happen overnight. You have to be willing to put it out there. I call it 'the secret to being an overnight success,' which means there really isn't a such thing as an overnight success. ! The secret is you work really hard for 10 years, and then you become an overnight success.

People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality. There are very few bona fide overnight success stories. It just doesn't work that way. Success appears to happen overnight because we all see stories in newspapers and on TV about previously unknown people who have suddenly become famous. But consider a sequoia tree that has been growing for several hundred years. Just because a television crew one day decides to do a story about that tree doesn't mean it didn't exist before.

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

Better Counsel comes overnight.

I was an overnight sensation.

Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

Psychology is not a place where you get results overnight.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

Fame doesn't come overnight.

Chinese people age overnight.

I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.

'Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?'

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

My success was pretty overnight.

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

Sweet But Psycho' blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It's hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight.

"Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."

It takes years to make an overnight success.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.