Quotes About Success

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy.

The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.

The universe is prodigal in its support. We are miserly in what we accept. All gift horses are looked in the mouth and usually returned to sender. We say we are scared by failure, but what frightens us more is the possibility of success.

es posible ser un artista y tener éxito económico.

Do not call the inability to start laziness. Call it fear. Fear is the true name for what ails the blocked artist. It may be fear of failure or fear of success. Most frequently, it is fear of abandonment. This fear has roots in childhood reality.

One of the things most worth noting in creative recovery is our reluctance to take seriously the possibility that the universe just might be cooperating with our new and expanded plans. We've gotten brave enough to try recovery, but we don't want the universe to really pay much attention. We still feel too much like frauds to handle some success. When it comes, we want to go ... Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

We like to pretend it is hard to follow our heart's dreams. The truth is, it is difficult to avoid walking through the many doors that will open. Turn aside your dream and it will come back to you again ... We say we are scared by failure, but what frightens us more is the possibility of success.

Any success postulated on a permanent artistic plateau dooms us, and it to failure.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. LES BROWN

My grandmother knew what a painful life had taught her: success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

we opt for setting our limits at the point where we feel assured of success. Living within these bounds, we may feel stifled ... despairing ... But, yes, we do feel safe. And safety is a very expensive illusion ... Usually, when we say we can't do something, what we mean is that we won't do something unless we can guarantee that we'll do it perfectly.

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens -- but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

but boys who like the tough sports—boys who are virtually nursed on that potion of hustle, slam, and grunt—they're the ones with the best chance in life.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.

For here is the final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is "success" in mourning? Does it lie in remembering or in forgetting? A staying still or a moving on? Or some combination of both?

Wilde also established another prime rule of fame in the modern age: that there is no such thing as bad publicity, there is only publicity. Success is better measured in column inches than by what those columns contain.

the reward of merit is not life's business.

And even when he guessed that the love stories of the misled and the forsaken had become a little less authentic with each retelling . . . even if this was the case, he was still moved. Indeed, he was more moved by the lives of the bereft and the unchosen than he was by stories of success in love.

There can be a complacency to failure as much as a complacency to success.

The next day, all that stopped him from feeling pure exultance was the question: had it been too easy?

One secret of the Christian religion's success was always to employ the best moviemakers

It's generally true that success, however defined, drives artistic friends apart more than failure does.