Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. - Abdul Kalam. View more images...
Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. - Walter J. Johnston. View more images...
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. - Konstantin Stanislavisky. View more images...
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. - Albert Schweitzer. View more images...
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. - Mignon McLaughlin. View more images...
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. - (John) Calvin Coolidge. View more images...
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. - Gavin DeGraw. View more images...
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow. - Unknown. View more images...
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. - Amy Tan. View more images...
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this. - Wilson Mizner. View more images...
This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that. - Kristen Stewart. View more images...
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. - Hugh Laurie. View more images...
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for! - James MacArthur. View more images...
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. - Jack Nicholson. View more images...