Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
— Scott Adams
You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.
— Scatman Crothers
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions in the Ardennes Forest, the site of their original Blitzkrieg success against the French in 1940.
— Saul David
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.
— Satya Nadella
Our approach is not to look at the successes of other people and try to repeat those successes. We don't look at the success of 'Grand Theft Auto 3' and think that maybe if we create games for older audiences will see a similar success.
— Satoru Iwata
Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.
— Sarah Vaughan
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
— Sarah McLachlan
I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.
— Sarah Hyland
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
— Sarah Brown
No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.
— Sara Pascoe
The more success you have, the more attention and the more spotlight comes to your name.
— Saquon Barkley
Crises are inherent to market economies, but managing them is the key to political success, and the media plays a vital role in getting the policy message across.
— Sanjaya Baru
I am planning to start a K. D. Jadhav Memorial International Championship in which I will have wrestling tournaments all over India. I will make a foundation and, through that, encourage youngsters to participate in sports activities. Jadhavji was my idol, and he inspired people like me to rise above our disabilities and achieve success in life.
— Sangram Singh
The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
— Sandra Bullock
The secret to my success is to work seven days a week. It's as disappointing an answer as the one about how to lose weight. Eat less. Sleep less. Very boring.
— Sandi Toksvig
The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.
— Sandeep Singh
The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.
— Scooter Braun
I was very happy with the success of 'Noise/Funk,' but of course, there is a lot more that I have to say about the dance, about the history, about the people involved with the dance and their history.
— Savion Glover
It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.
— Satyajit Ray
I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.
Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
— Sarah Vowell
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?
My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It's allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it's not enough.
— Sarah Drew
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
— Sarah Bernhardt
It's an amazing achievement to win a National Business Award and it recognises all of the hard work and determination of the team of people that have made Crafter's Companion the success that it is today.
— Sara Davies
My mindset is to go out there and be confident, believe in yourself, visualizing success and visualizing plays you're gonna make in games.
People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.
— Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Success and failure go hand in hand.
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.
I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.
Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
— Samuel Witwer
I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.
I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
— Saul Leiter
We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and - most of all - accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.
I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
— Sarah Caldwell
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.
— Sara Bareilles
Success and failure are temporary in TV.
— Sanjeeda Sheikh
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
— Sanjay Kumar
Success doesn't matter to me. I believe in performance.
— Sangeetha Krish
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
— Sandra Cisneros
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
— Sandra Bernhard
My brother, who is four years older to me, not only inspired me to take up hockey but also taught me every trick of the game. I give all credit to him for my success.
