You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it. Lou Gerstner
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. Jesse Jackson
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up. Michael Pitt
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. Michael Korda
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need. Bruce Springsteen
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. Bruce Springsteen
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. Herbert Samuel
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. Robert Collier
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. Maude Adams
Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on. Brett Favre
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. Melissa Bean
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you. Jay-Z
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. Major Taylor
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success. Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. Jonathan Sacks
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. John McEnroe
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. Jonathan Kozol