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Quotes About Success

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Still humping the American Dream
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.
~ Mike Tyson
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?
~ Zig Ziglar
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
~ Robert D. Arnott
Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.
~ Shai Agassi
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
~ Barbara Mertz
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
~ Bill Dedman
I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.
~ Orrin Woodward
May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself
~ Paulo Coelho
In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
~ David Caruso
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.
~ Eric Zorn
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
~ Erica Jong
All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
~ J. J. Abrams
Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.
~ Jay Mohr
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
Do not let fear keep you on the sidelines. Your number has been called, get in the game! It is your time to shine.
~ E'yen A. Gardner
Fear is the greatest predator you encounter on your journey to greatness.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
~ Anupam Kher
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
~ Howard Schultz
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
~ Alicia Keys
In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
~ Naveen Jain