Quotes About Success

If life were one long grade school, women would be the undisputed rulers of the world.

Aunt Ibby's Never-Fail Meringue

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.

effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?

If you're somebody when you're successful, what are you when you're unsuccessful?

NASA thought so. When they were soliciting applications for astronauts, they rejected people with pure histories of success and instead selected people who had had significant failures and bounced back from them.

Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Think of times other people outdid you and you just assumed that they were smarter or more talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that too, if you want to.

Babe Ruth rose like a rocket." Through discipline. He also loved to practice.