Quotes About Success

Long before Freud made his contribution to modern thought, Pico della Mirandola, in a treatise called De Imaginatione—Concerning the Imagination—was discriminating between two kinds of revery: the one retrograde, backward-turning, keeping the man from his man's work, prolonging irresponsibility and mental childhood; the other, the true imagination, was found in the successful man.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Every book, every editor, every teacher will tell you that the great key to success in authorship is originality

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

I suppose all young men dream of making a fortune," she said. "But most of them come to be content to make a living.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

My mother explained it for him once. "There is nothing there for anyone who has ambition and intelligence," she said.

The simple things done consistently will produce the greatest results in your life.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Over the last 10 years, we've learned that there's still no better way to succeed in college than to be well read.

Cocaine is also the drug of success and ambition, a tonic to those for whom doubt and introspection serve no purpose. No accident that it replaced psychedelics in the Woodstock Generation's stash boxes as flower children turned into young professionals.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.

I was a loser in high school. . . . And I'm here to tell my fellow dweebs and losers that your day will come. High school is not the final word on you. There is hope.

But every time an artist dies young, Kurt Cobain or whatever, it's always the people -- "It's so sad, he had so much more to give." How do you know? Maybe he was out of shit. He got all the money, he did all the drugs, he fucked all your holes, and that's the American Dream. And when you're done with that, you go, "Oh, that's why they call it a dream. It's bullshit. I'm still empty.

This was Special Forces' rule number one: let men experience failure so they never fail again. And by failing, they will learn how to be successful soldiers.

He was a golden boy in a world of brass and tin.

There's another million upon success.

And now that Martin was involved, she would actually be meeting a man who had skyrocketed to the top of the business world and was the darling of the media, replacing Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg before him. Eben Martin was larger than life.

not too many people would feel sorry for a man who worked from home, answered only to himself, and earned millions by simply typing words into a computer.