Chasing Success Quotes

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion. ~ Tony Hsieh

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all. ~ Russell Simmons

The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it. ~ Nikki Rowe

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other. ~ Donald Miller

It isn't enough to pick a path - you must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at least you will have, as we like to say, "explored the neighborhood." The key point here is that even if you decide you're in the wrong place, there is still time to head toward the right place. ~ Ed Catmull

I think that the success of the franchise is helpful for launching different aspects of my career. It's sort of the reliable cousin that you can always count on for every family reunion. Because of 'Step Up' I've been able to really take my career to the next level. I have them to thank for a lot of my success. ~ Alyson Stoner

When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles. ~ Jennifer Finney Boylan

If you copy my dreams, you automatically will copy my challenges too. My success will give you a crown. My challenges will make you frown. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. ~ Jonas Salk

Success for me is to go out there and dominate. ~ Jon Jones

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. ~ Moby

Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process. ~ Kevin Spacey

Success is the end product. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you. ~ Frederick Lenz

A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck. ~ Saaif Alam

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. ~ Elizabeth Janeway

Failure is success training. ~ Kevin Smith

Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though. ~ Tom Cunningham

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~ Quentin Crisp

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years. ~ Ramakrishna

I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy. ~ Timothy Ferriss

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action! ~ Ray Kroc

We expect professional and financial success to require time and effort. Why do we take success in our relationships for granted? Why should we expect harmony to come naturally just because we are in love? ~ Eknath Easwaran

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough. ~ Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky

I awoke one morning to find myself famous. ~ George Gordon Byron

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work. ~ David Sarnoff

No one learns anything from non-stop success. In order to truly succeed, you need to make mistakes along the way. ~ Robert Paul Weston

Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success. ~ Genevieve Behrend

If you plan to walk in the footsteps of the great, be prepared to walk with sores on your feet. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change. ~ Steve Maraboli

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history. ~ Michael Specter

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

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ~ Roger Babson

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. ~ Chase Jarvis

'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way. ~ Kevin Keegan

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night. ~ Jean Giraudoux

For people who make up stories for a living, that is the ultimate success: knowing that, when the book closes, when the series ends, the adventure is not over. It goes on without the creator, in the minds of the people who love it. You can't stop the signal. Once it's broadcast, it continues on forever, pulsing past star clusters, lighting up new worlds, collecting new fans, till the end of time itself. ~ Sharon Shinn

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction. ~ Tony Dovale

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. ~ Robin Tunney

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that. ~ Kevin Spacey

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it ... ~ Wilferd Peterson

Success is a target only for failures. ~ Meir Ezra

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. ~ Corey Hart

The more you tell yourself that you are trying to do something rather than telling yourself that you are doing said thing, the harder it is to have success in your attempts. By saying that you are trying to do something you are focusing on the negatives making it impossible to have a positive outcome. ~ Avina Celeste

Don't wait until your energy runs out before you take a much needed step back to assess the situation. ~ Auliq Ice

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still. ~ Ann Brashares

There is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to the fact that in our competitive, perfectionist culture, in which the price woman are required to pay for freedom still seems to be martyrdom, almost everyone lies about motherhood. Part of that lying is loyalty - I can't let on that my kid is the only one on the playground who can't read or play the piano - and part of it is self-protection, since we've made hyper-motherhood a measure of female success. The preferred answer to the question "How are you?" is always "Fine," and the answer to the question "How are the kids?" is supposed to be "Great!" That's true even if the accurate answers would be "terrible" and "a mess." I think it produces its own kind of desperation, especially for women, who yearn to be emotionally open. ~ Anna Quindlen

In the United States, numbers impress us. We gauge the success of an event by how many people attend or come forward. We measure churches by how many members they boast. We are wowed by big crowds. ~ Francis Chan

People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase ~ Sunday Adelaja

Achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth: ~ Earl Nightingale

The very FIRST Step to making your dreams come true ... is to wake up from sleep. ~ George Akomas Jr

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success. ~ Tony Robbins