Quotes About Success

He worked as an agent for the same reason people worked as accountants and lawyers and corporate clerks. Because he was good at it. Because he liked the challenge. Because when the job was done right, he felt good about himself.

Problem solvers, doers. Life hasn't always been kind to them, but it's made them stronger, more determined. Opportunity isn't given, it must be made.

The kind of kid who is meant to suffer for the first twenty years or so, but then would take his software company public at age twenty-one and wind up married to a supermodel and driving a Ferrari.

reminding me that I must not s, reminding me that I must not fail.

I always win in the end

reading was the cornerstone of self-esteem, success, and even a simple pleasure that was lifelong. She

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If you work hard, you will eat easy. If you work easy, you will eat hard.

Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a

She brags that she once earned one

Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.

there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn't how things went.

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

Who you marry, what you choose as your profession, how you were raised—yes, that is the big picture. But, as they say, the devil's in the details.

keys to get

Point! -Alicia

Lisi Harrison

With no one to share it with, success would be just another reminder that she was alone.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.