Quotes About Success

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Even in death may you triumphant

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

Una universidad era una universidad: que fueras a una cualquiera y acabaras licenciándote era lo único que le importaba a una familia tan poco mundana como la mía.

success can lead to acclaim that can undermine the habits of mind that produced the success.

God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a beloved sister succeed, and a passionate desire to see a rival fall.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

If you mean Charles Stuart,' Frances's voice rang out clearly in the hall, 'then calling him he of whom you were speaking is hardly a brilliant disguise. And if that is your idea of deep concealment then I don't anticipate great success, on the day of which you have spoken, or any other day, actually.

She would not let it go. "I had thought to be Queen of England and see my son on the throne," she repeated.

And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.

any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.

But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.