Quotes About Success

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going!

best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.

One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it.

No victor believes in chance.

but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

Success has always been a great liar

Lankhmar City would feed me, aye, feed me well—and be paid only with lumps and perhaps a deep scratch or two. So to Lankhmar I went. Falling in there with a clever girl of the same turn of mind and some experience, I did well for two full rounds of moons and a few more. We worked only in black garb, and called ourselves to ourselves the Dark Duo.

Ha-ha, joke. Gussy, it achieves the same effect without using any dope at all. Listen: a tickler reminds you of your duties and opportunities—your chances for happiness and success! What's the obvious next step?" "Throw it out the window. By the way, how do you do that when you're underground?

The depth of a priest's compassion is the measure of his apostolic success.

His longterm aspirations were not a subject upon which he allowed himself to dwell. Not because they were in any way bad or bizarre, but because he had come to realize he didn't have any. Nothing specific anyway. He'd never pictured himself as anything in particular. Just a situation where he made enough money doing something... anything... enough to have whatever he wanted. A nice new Dodge pickup. A boat or maybe a little house someplace. The kind of things people wanted.

Dejar el campo, irse a la ciudad, hacer carrera universitaria, tener coche, y prosperar hasta lograr tener una casa de campo...

cette volonté de partir ne me semblait pas venir de moi seule. Souvent elle me paraissait émaner de générations en arrière de moi ayant usé dans d'obscures existences injustes l'élan de leur âme et qui à travers ma vie poussaient enfin à l'accomplissement de leur libération. Serait-ce donc le vieux rêve de mon enfance, qui me tenait toujours, de venger les miens par le succès ?

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

smart woman can do very well in this country. —A young woman in nineteenth-century California

The more road blocks the better.

Successful real estate investors realize the value of surrounding themselves with experts in a range of areas—taxes, the law, real estate, insurance, property management, etc.

A little education goes a long way in accomplishing four essential goals.

Ordinary people just like you, with ordinary reserves of cash, have achieved great results in real estate investment, and you can too.

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.