Quotes About Success

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis.

I am an ambitious writer – I don't see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have no ambition for it.

when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them see that for a woman, a working-class woman, to want to be a writer, to want to be a good writer, and to believe that you were good enough, that was not arrogance; that was politics. (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? p. 103)

Being a great poet doesn't always mean that you write great poetry.

To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.

The truth brings no man a fortune

Di solito si ottiene con tutta sicurezza e assai presto ciò che non si ha fretta di ottenere.

me repetía este proverbio provinciano, algo menos exacto en París, que el que bien canta y bien danza trabaja mucho y no avanza.

On obtient très sûrement et très vite ce qu'on n'est pas pressé d'obtenir.

Young teacher, I am setting before you a difficult task, the art of controlling without precepts, and doing everything without doing anything at all. This art is, I confess, beyond your years, it is not calculated to display your talents nor to make your value known to your scholar's parents; but it is the only road to success.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you're willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

People seek a tutor who has already educated one pupil. This is too much; one man can only educate one pupil; if two were essential to success, what right would he have to undertake the first?

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

Even more important than saving money is making it.

Hunting is waiting, the Duke used to say, and if you never came home empty-handed they wouldn't call it hunting.

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected ; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken : I staggered under the weight of my responsibility. I started and saw nothing, I struggled in the midst of rites which were invented on the spot and tore them to shreds with my strong arms. At those times she hated me.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken: I staggered under the weight of my responsibility.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.