Richard Rodgers Quotes

I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

I don't think at any age I will be able to feel totally accomplished.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

I want to have it all.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I'm about being the best.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.