Mickey Rooney

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

I was determined to succeed in what I loved to do. I wasn’t going to let my disability stand in my way.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I’ve become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

It’s next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships.

People who are fools don’t get successful, and they don’t get to be successful if they are worried about their popularity.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Whenever I hear it can’t be done, I know I am close to success.