Quotes About Challenges

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

This is America. Success is not guaranteed.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Success is not usually easy or fast.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.

I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.

If you look at reggae and dancehall artists in general, there isn't really a big success story. A Shabba Ranks or a Yellowman might have a hit, but there's never a follow up. There's no consistency.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.

I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.

While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.

I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.