Quotes About Success

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

A man can die of failure, Fitz. Do you know that? Once, I told you, the fight isn't over until you've won.

The shortest distance between a man and his goal was often a lie

She thinks you will succeed. But whether you will know you have succeeded, or if the success will be the one you would have chosen for yourself, well, those are things no one can say now. But she knows you will succeed at whatever you are meant to do." p.613: Paragon to Brashen (about Mother)

if I fret about it, I shall have pre-judged myself to failure.

If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

The fight isn't over until you win.

Keep trying, especially at first. It can be very discouraging if your submissions keep being rejected by a publisher, but if your work is what people want to read, you should get there eventually!

Appreciation is a big component of a succesful marriage.

Good luck, son,

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Their success is measured not by consumption and growth, but by graceful longevity and simplicity, by persistence while the world changed around them. It is changing now.

The fear for me is that the world has been turned inside out, the dark side made to seem light. Indulgent self-interest that our people once held to be monstrous is now celebrated as success. We are asked to admire what our people viewed as unforgivable.

Mosses are successful by any biological measure—they inhabit nearly every ecosystem on earth and number as many as 22,000 species. Like my niece finding small places to hide, mosses can live in a great diversity of small microcommunities where being large would be a disadvantage.

They succeed by matching the unique properties of their form to the physical laws of interaction between air and earth.

When my son was born I had this dream that one day he might grow up to be a Nobel Prize winner. But I also had another dream that he might grow up to say, "Do you want fries with that?"

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.

with grades, with scores. I always had to be the best in my class. It felt like the only way I could measure my success, my self-worth. If you knew the time I put into preparing for the MCAT you wouldn't believe it—it verged on OCD. It's that insane.