Quotes About Success

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

hope the play will be a success and that the message which it contains will, through you, reach as many people as possible and awaken in them a sense of responsibility to humanity.

Esta semana he leído mucho y he estudiado poco. Así han de hacerse las cosas en este mundo, y así seguro que se llega lejos...

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that alot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.

But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also often feel a great sense of amazement that they get to write, and they know that this is what they want to do for the rest of their lives.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

I've managed to get some work done nearly every day of my adult life, without impressive financial success.

So you—I—stuck to the family plan for a long time, because your success made everyone else so happy, even if you made yourself frantic and half dead trying to achieve it. You couldn't win at this game, and you couldn't stop trying. At least it was a home to return to, no matter how erratic, which is better than no home.

Play is learning how to wait, how to applaud someone else's success, how to let others go first. It's reciprocity and laughter. It's very simple and it brings us deeply into the Now, and just for a while, maybe for the rest of the day, you don't have to judge yourself or kill anyone.

Living was struggling to do something impossible—to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!

Success without envy was like snails without sauce—and, as any cultivated woman knew, the sauce is everything!

Nothing invites imitation like apparent success. The

Nothing worth having was gained without courage.

She has the world on a string, and she contemplates it with some satisfaction.

sometimes it's not the errors you make but how you recover from them that mark the difference between failure and success

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Vengarse es el objetivo de aquellos que se sienten de algún modo derrotados. Yo no estaba vencido, me dije. Y siempre es mucho mas interesante pensar en la victoria que en la venganza.

If I failed tonight, I would be another legend.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.