Quotes About Success

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Do what you love and the business will follow.

Finalement, le plus grand bénéfice du métier d'humoriste, et plus généralement de l'attitude humoristique, dans la vie, c'est de pouvoir se comporter comme un salaud en toute impunité, et même de pouvoir grassement rentabiliser son abjection, en succès sexuels comme en numéraire, le tout avec l'approbation générale. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,1)

Está lección autobiográfica no lo es en realidad: sea como sea, no tengo otra salida. Sino escribo lo que he visto sufriría igual; y quizás un poco más. Un poco solamente, insisto en esto. La escritura no alivia apenas. Describe, delimita. Introduce una sombra de coherencia,una idea de realismo. Uno sigue chapoteando en una niebla sangrienta, pero hay algunos puntos de referencia. El caos se queda a unos pocos metros. Pobre éxito, en realidad.

A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

el concepto de amor, a pesar de su fragilidad ontológica, ostenta u ostentaba hasta fecha reciente todos los atributos de una prodigiosa potencia operatoria. Forjado a toda prisa, tuvo inmediatamente un gran público, e incluso en nuestros días son pocos los que renuncian clara y deliberadamente a amar. Este evidente éxito tendería a demostrar una misteriosa correspondencia con no se sabe qué necesidad constitutiva de la naturaleza humana.

After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived—on a scale that surprised me.

La mia carriera non era stata un fallimento, commercialmente perlomeno: se si aggredisce il mondo con una violenza sufficiente, allora finisce per sganciarli, i suoi sporchi soldi; ma non vi ridà mai e poi mai la gioia.

La chispa de curiosidad que subsistía en mi forma de mirar el mundo se apagaría pronto y sería como las piedras, con el añadido de un vago sufrimiento. Mi carrera no había sido un fracaso, al menos en términos comerciales: si agredes al mundo con suficiente violencia, él te acaba escupiendo su cochina pasta; pero nunca, nunca te devuelve la alegría.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

I'm going to do what you did," it ran, "only I'm going to do it quicker, better and for more money. Because I'm me.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn't do that

I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

Dad was a big part of my hockey, that's for sure. He really wanted to see me succeed. He helped pay for me to play even when money was tight. Having him totally gone was going to be weird.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.