Past Success Quotes

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

Let's face it, I'm a has-been.

I guess because I was on the 'Early Show' for so many years, any little victory here is something kind of new for me.

The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

Past glories are poor feeding.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

I don't want to live on my past performances and say that I did well then.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it.

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.