Quotes About Success

La mentalidad fija se enfoca en el resultado. Si fracasas –o si no eres el mejor–, todo se ha desperdiciado

En general, la gente con mentalidad fija prefiere un éxito sin esfuerzo, ya que es la mejor manera de demostrar su talento.

Con seguridad las personas de mentalidad fija han leído libros que aseguran que el éxito tiene que ver con ser la mejor versión de ti mismo, no con ser mejor que los demás; que el fracaso es una oportunidad, no una condena, o que el esfuerzo es la llave del éxito. Pero no pueden ponerlo en práctica porque su mentalidad básica –la creencia en rasgos fijos–

They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children's accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure. It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can't afford to be wrong.

Gerry and I were able to keep enough hits flowing out of our Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano to feel confident about being able to pay our mortgage.

Money may not be everything, but it's a pretty good cure for poverty.

Success on earth rests on both fate and effort. One cannot change the course of destiny but heroic acts can achieve wonders;

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

We are homesteading a claim here in old No Man's Land... In spite of droughts and hot winds, blizzards, dirt storms, hail storms, grasshoppers, and in fact almost every form of discouragement, the fascination of being so near the beginning of things, of finding ourselves not quite mastered by various calamities, has held us. We have always felt that if we could hold out a few more years we should succeed; our homestead would really become a home.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

This is your success and this is the magic hour, the golden time before the time. Just be in it. You earned it. Don't spread it and don't pull on it and don't push it and don't share it and don't examine it. This is it.

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.

being recognized, women

Please then, can we stop this obsession with the tiny minority of writers who have made a fortune from their work, and/or those who look hot in their author pics. Please can we also stop dissolving into factions of the bestselling, the midlist, the self-published, the Hampstead-dwelling, those who like to write cheerful stories and those who prefer to write grim ones. And instead take a proper and considered look at the future of the entire profession of writing.

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

Indeed, for the denizens of Versailles, clothes and other seemingly superficial emblems remained concrete measures of their success . . . or failure. In this rarefied world, the surface was the substance. And the appearance of power, legible in everything from a slashed sleeve to a patent coat, was the real thing.

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

Success is being happy first with yourself, and secondly with your life.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

I read an article in a women's magazine about "writing purple prose for love and money." They made it sound easy, so I started writing on an old electronic typewriter that alternated between stuck keys and high throttle. I had no clue my first letter to Harlequin came back marked "Return to Sender." Luckily, I made my first sale before I understood how long the odds were.