Moderate Success Quotes

I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.

He who is content with a moderate victory is always most successful; for those who would more than conquer, commonly lose.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

I'm not as rich as I could be or should be, but I've done well enough.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

In success be moderate.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

If I can be right 75 per cent of the time I shall come up to the fullest measure of my hopes.

From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

I didn't have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn't a failure, either.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.