Quotes About Success

My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don't crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.

I believe that if I do good work, something in the universe will fall right for it.

I am ambitious to do good work and do it really well.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.

Me and Kyle O'Reilly have wrestled all around the world. We've done good work.

I know I do good work.

When you've done good work, you can't come back with something stupid.

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

I have completed the construction of my burrow and it seems to be successful

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise always right. I disclaim as unsound all patriotism incompatible with the principles of eternal justice.

In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

They were great in their day and generation.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

It is so pleasant to feel that we have succeeded in doing what all the People who Know told us was impossible.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the work itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the work, whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; great men, as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

Having a talent is not enough; one also requires your permission for it--right, my friends?

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.