The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Being best is a false goal you have to measure success on your own terms.
Success consists in being successful not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace but there's no palace till it's built.
As my father used to tell me the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic but you never really enjoy success.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion dedication hard work and being in the right place at the right time.
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
In the end you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
Real success is not on the stage but off the stage as a human being and how you get along with your fellow man.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?