Quotes About Success

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.

We're going to be rich. Huh? Forgot. You're already rich. I'm going to be rich, and you'll be richer okay I'm serious. We've just discover a non-fail motivation for exercise. Hot jungle sex. We'll be Bill Gates rich. We'll write a book. There'll be DVDs and infomercials. America, then the world, will become buff and sexually satisfied. And they'll have us to thank.

Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.

Dreams were essential, creativity a must, but details, sweat, and a business plan made dreams a reality.

A scan of the walls had the grin turning to a wince. Blue ribbons, medals, awards were all neatly framed and displayed.There were photographs of her in formal riding gear flying over jumps, smiling from the back of a horse or standing with her cheek pressed to her mount's neck. And in a thick frame was an Olympic medal. A silver. Well hell.We'll make that two portions of crow, he murmured.

Do you think you can have everything you want just by yelling louder, just by being stronger?

With her, the early bird doesn't just catch the worm, but has time to sauté it with a nice plum sauce for breakfast.

good things happened when you took steps, when you worked for them—and when you were lucky enough to find people who'd give you a chance to do your best.

The woman's managed what hasn't been done in thirty-one years. She's broke my god dawn nose

Some made the right choices, and made the best of their chances.

And because the family business, the industry of

Fame all depends on the ground you're standing on...

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Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually in terms of the success of this metaphor.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.