Top 1200 Overnight Success Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

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.

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.

There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

I know it wasn't like a meteoric rise, it was not overnight success. Nobody watched my movie, fell in love and said 'I'm her biggest fan.' People took time to warm up to me.

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.

Success doesn't come overnight and there's certain things you can't do. I've missed so many weddings, christenings and birthdays, but I know all my family are there behind me, wanting me to do really well and it was worth the sacrifice.

Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!

A lot of people fear failures, struggling, they want overnight success and they live in their fake imaginary world.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

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

I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.

Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

On Twitter, there'll be fans of 'Army Wives' and people who say, 'I've been following you since 'Supernatural,' I loved you on 'Person of Interest,'' and it's really cool to get that love. To them, I'm not just an overnight success.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Some people think success is overnight. I suppose, considering I came from Australia, it has been pretty quick. But I have a background in stand-up and improv, so I've really had to prove myself.

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

We need to realise that not everyone can take the path to overnight success. Take actors such as Rajkummar Rao and Vicky Kaushal - they have built their work and profile over the years to get to where they are.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

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

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.