Quotes About Success

Once you're famous you can't go back.

To maximize the effectiveness of any excavator, it had to be serviced efficiently by spoil removal trains. Thus, for Stevens, the railway, the Panama Railroad, was the key to success on the Isthmus, something never fully appreciated by the French.

Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

If you have enough money and a good name, you can do anything. CORNELIA GUEST

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

The human beings I know are mostly wonderful people, but they often fail to distinguish clearly between what they worked for and the good things that came their way. They also are not so good at seeing the difference between the character flaws of other people and bad things that happen to them.

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. She had worked hard for years, and if she had nothing to show for it but her house and her son's education, there was still the fact of its having happened, which no one could erase from the record of human lives, even if no one was keeping one.

eudaimonia, one of the Greek words translated as "happiness," implies flourishing, fulfillment, accomplishment

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success.

L'optimiste, en revanche, est confiant dans le fait qu'il est possible de réaliser ses aspirations et qu'avec patience, détermination et intelligence, il finira par y arriver. De fait, le plus souvent, il y parvient.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

her "green light" was Harvard. "But if I don't get into Harvard, I will not die, right? The journey toward the dream is the most important thing.

Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.

Technology-based innovation is imperative for success in a competitive business environment.

The keys to not just survival but success, Busch understood, lay in diversification, distribution, and marketing.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Il n'est toutefois de véritable élévation que conquise, de puissance et de gloire vraies qu'individuelles, forgées par la volonté et le travail. La presse qui promet l'une et l'autre ne saurait faire tomber dans son miroir à alouettes que les médiocres et les faibles. Balzac la condamne comme une fausse école d'ambition. (p. 149)

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.