Quotes About Success

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving , the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

a great man. But...not quite great enough.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Successes are secret and thankless, failures are splashy and gain you only blame.

Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The fastest way to get to easy is through hard.

Ekaterin's vision of him, he reminded himself, was not exactly objective. Thank God. "I've been trying to charm quaddies all day, with no noticeable success.

Ivan didn't want to know. "You play games like that with the big boys, you'd better make damn sure you win, Miles says. Rule One. And there is no Rule Two.

Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll be able to handle Garnet Five. Just be your usual charming self." Ekaterin's vision of him, he reminded himself, was not exactly objective. Thank God. "I've been trying to charm quaddies all day, with no noticeable success." "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. And Nicol will be playing in the orchestra tonight.

Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

The Grand Ole Opry asked me to be a member on September 25, 1962. I was thirty years old. I can't tell you how proud that made me. It was one of the best moments of my life.

Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in for a long wait.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.