Top 1200 Past Success Quotes & Sayings

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

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.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

What do you call success in our sport? What determines success? Are you successful if you are 10-0 and no one is watching your fights? Is that success?

Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

Never rest on past success. Create something better.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

Forget about what happened in the past. The past is the past. Who cares? Time heals things.

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past - or more accurately, pastness - is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents and their blessings are more than enough for one to reach success. I believe it as my success mantra.

If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking ? partly for the experience ? it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

I try and show my son success, success, success, so that's all he'll ever know.

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

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.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

A lot of dudes have success, overnight success or one-year success but not many have ten, fifteen, twenty in this game so when you can do that is when I look up to you.

It is important to move on from the laurels of the past. I can't let success go to my head.

I'm proud of Jay Z's success and Kanye's success. Inside, I feel like I had something to do with their success... I don't have anything but positive things to say.

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.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

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.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

Success breeds success and a strong educational foundation is the basis for the success of all Alabamians in the future.