Quotes About Success

All people have the mission of overcoming themselves. Anyone who is overcome by others has failed in his mission; anyone who fails in his mission will be overcome by others. If one overcomes oneself, other people don't notice; if, however, one overcomes others, then the sky turns red and the man in the streets calls the phenomenon progress.

She [Madame Bovary] had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success—a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.

Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.

O completo imbecil, entretanto, alcança êxito, algumas vezes, porquanto, não tendo consciência da sua imbecilidade, jamais hesita em afirmar com autenticidade. Ora, a afirmação enérgica e repetida, possui prestígio. O mais vulgar dos "camelos", quando energicamente afirma a superioridade de um produto, exerce prestígio na multidão que o circunda.

Across the street, Mitla Cafe's mascot stares directly at the former Bell's Burgers, stares with a smile, just next to the slogan "Real Mexican Food." Mitla might not have the riches, might never have capitalized on its tacos, but it gets the last laugh. The Taco Bell taco is dead. Long live the taco.

He had finally got money, he had taken off his moustache, he was driving a car that few could afford, he was a new man. But the world failed to recognise him as such.

My impression is that the products of our art colleges are not over-endowed with coin of the realm.

The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatters the English faculty like a truant officer among the Amish.

Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments. The spirit is most alive when it is lost. Anxiety was Kafka's composure, as despair was Kierkegaard's happiness. Kafka said impatience is our greatest fault. The man at the gate of the Law waited there all of his life.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck

It was more than all right, Finn. You did everything right. Every single thing, from the very beginning.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

If the other guy's happy, then there's still money left on the table.' " A

The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.

grown up poor in the midst of Southern California affluence, graduated from Stanford Law School, and held a series of jobs, including corporate lawyer, developer of vast Southern California orange groves, and deputy chair of