Congratulations Quotes - Page 4

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Success only hurts the first time.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? [...] Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

Applause waits on success.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.