Success Quotes

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.

The success of 'Luke Cage' breaking Netflix was the reason why we have 'Black Panther' and why we have 'Black Lightning,' 'Cloak & Dagger,' and all of these shows that are popping that represent this reinvigoration of people's love and interest in black superheroes.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.