Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Failure is a part of success.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.