#success

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. ↗

— A. J. Foyt

#bad luck #cars #dad #daddy #drivers

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#beautiful paintings #deny #did #i #just

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#been #career #crisis #had #hung

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#chosen #each #given #lottery #luck

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry. ↗

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

#success #courage

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#each #every #guy #helping #hockey

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted. ↗

— Monty Hall

#felt #got #help #i #incumbent

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

#attended #censured #consequence #expedition #fatal

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#been #city #come #commercials #company

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#makes #man #stand #straight #success