Quotes About Success

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th time.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires is the right person to, shall we say, effect the launch." -Miss Endicott.

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. …" OLD TESTAMENT, ECCLESLASTES, 4:2

The success of "Batman" gave the studio executives a feeling of invincibility. They asked themselves if the movie owed its success to Guber and Peters after all, or if it had really been the star, Jack Nicholson, who'd made it work, or Mark Canton, the chief production executive of Warner Bros.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

winner's make it happen ; losers let it happen .

We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do the job—is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

discover what could make you famous, and then proclaim that it already has.

Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.

The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.

There was little that common sense and hard work couldn't accomplish.

But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one's ultimate destination.

The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential—I was torn between the two.

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail. -We Are All Beside Ourselves

WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said.

Nina Torrone, a young artist whose work had caught fire and was selling for over half a million per painting.

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.

That's the problem with life, Sam. If you're not rising, you're falling.