I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.