To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.
— Xavier Dolan
I was working for a chef a long time ago who told me to not skip steps or be in a hurry. Success in a kitchen is more like a marathon and less like a sprint. Rising up the ranks too quickly isn't necessarily a good thing. This advice was from a guy who was sorry he had done that and didn't want me to do the same.
— Wylie Dufresne
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
— Woody Allen
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I want and dance to my own tune, even if sometimes it's like nobody is listening. The trade-off is you stay 'cult' and resign yourself to a very modest level of what most people would call success.
— Withered Hand
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.
— Wilson Cruz
I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
— Willie Stargell
Every failure is a step to success.
— William Whewell
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
— William Shatner
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
— William Osler
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
— William James
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
— William J. H. Boetcker
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
— William Gibson
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.
— William Ernest Henley
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
— William Dampier
I think of the various forms of anti-Semitism as very much like different kinds of cancer. A healthy body with a strong immune system can have success in preventing cancers from emerging and spreading. But if the immune system weakens cancer can emerge. Some might be localized. But others can rapidly metastasize and become systematic.
— William Barr
Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.
— Wynonna Judd
Success - it's what you do with what you've got.
— Woody Hayes
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
— Wiz Khalifa
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you're older, they still think of you as that girl - that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle.
— Winona Ryder
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
— Wilma Mankiller
The road to success runs uphill.
— Willie Davis
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
— William Pollard
It's logical and fair to allow only registered or self-identified Democrats to choose their party's nominee (although numerous states do have open primaries). Letting more non-Democrats choose the nominee doesn't guarantee success in a November general election. And it does nothing to encourage people to join and work for the party.
— William M. Daley
Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.
— William J. Mann
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
— William Hurt
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
— William Feather
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
— William Ellery Channing
There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
— Willem Dafoe
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it's an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that's a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.
— Wong Kar-wai
I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Adam Lambert's continued success as one of the world's best-selling pop stars shows LGBT people that they can be themselves and make it in a mainstream industry that many feel unfairly rejects them.
If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.
— Willow Smith
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
— William Winwood Reade
Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.
We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
— William Petersen
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
— William Lloyd Garrison
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
— William Hazlitt
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
— William Eardley IV
At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.
— William Cameron Forbes
