Quotes About Success

Some hunt heiresses, others a legacy; some fish for souls, yet others sell their clients, bound hand and foot. Every one who comes back from the chase with his game-bag well filled meets with a warm welcome in good society.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

A football scholarship to the University of North Texas, where he'd stayed on to earn a PhD.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

You must not go into the burial places, and look about only for the tall monuments and the titled names. It is not the starred epitaphs of the Doctors of Divinity, the Generals, the Judges, the Honourables, the Governors, or even of the village nobles called Esquires, that mark the springs of our successes and the sources of our distinctions. These are rather effects than causes; the spinning-wheels have done a great deal more than these.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Extraordinary individuals fail often and sometimes dramatically. Rather than giving up, however, they are challenged to learn from their setbacks and to convert defeats into opportunities.

Jadi, jika aku ditanyai, "Apa yang harus kulakukan untuk menjadi penulis sukses?" Aku akan menjawab bahwa kau harus menginginkannya lebih daripada kau menginginkan yang lain.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Success can be harder to take than failure in a lot of ways. It brings with it a responsibility. You have to learn that all the highs don't last forever. For every high, there's a corresponding low. It's why young kids often go to pieces. When they get so popular they can't go out of their hotel rooms, that's when they turn to drugs. Success can be very dangerous, very heady.