Quotes About Success

She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and (b) locate it in an area either so badly paid or of such low status that men don't want it

you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

From now on, consider me your resident nun." My boss smiled. "I don't usually see nuns wearing shorts that tiny." I rolled my eyes. "Okay, so I'm a slutty nun who needs the tips. God understands. You gotta dress for success in this world.

MIENTRAS MENOS FALLEMOS MAS GANAREMOS; MIENTRAS MAS NOS PREPAREMOS MAS AVANZAREMOS" Joaquín Rodrigues

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

An astrologer told Coco Chanel that five was her lucky number. So she named her first perfume Chanel No. 5 and launched it on the fifth day of May (the fifth month). The rest, as they say, is history.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Triumph comes through perserverance.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve swords?" A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will you succeed without one?" Muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.

But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.

If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Sylvie aced the classes she was interested in but got C's or D's in everything else. Julia had operated her determination like a lawn mower and mowed through high school with the next step in her sights.

Her father had called Julia his rocket ever since she was a little girl—I can't wait to watch you fly, he'd say—and she was the one who fixed problems.

When she was in high school she had believed that white people wanted their children to be president of the United States; that most of them worked hard with that goal in mind. And if not president--well, perhaps a cabinet member.