Top 1200 Success Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

The desire to hear a story, and a story well told, triumphs over Internet, film and television sometimes.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Personal success means nothing if it isn't aligned with the success of the team. I consider myself to be a team player more than anything else.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

People often ask me for the secret to success. Usually, they mean success in the music industry, but I think the answer applies to most things in life: always persevere and never give up.

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

A lot of the magic that is behind success can be unlocked through mentorships. Mentorships are a fundamental part of the success equation.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes. So I'd try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.

I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.

I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.