Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

“When you have found it, you should stick to it.”

“When you have found it, you should stick to it.”

:I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” – Audrey Hepburn

“My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.”

“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.”

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s mind is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”

“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” –Audrey Hepburn

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the week, and esteem to all.” – George Washington

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”