Quotes About Success

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, keep cooking. Success comes from repeatedly doing things that make you uncomfortable.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

You are not a failure when you fall down, you become one when you stay down. To succeed you must keep rising one more time.

Channel that tremendous force into the proper activity and you will accomplish wonderful things

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Through struggle to the stars.

I am a failure in most of the things, But believe me.. in things I know I can; I am the best

People will wish you the best. Then hate on you when you get it.

School motto's are not what they exactly produce! Our motto was education is wealth, but look how I am.

The success we knew was only by achieving. But girls, today you celebrate success by being achieved..

Be industrious, let thine eyes be open, lest you become a beggar, for the man that is idle cometh not to honor.

One does not run to reach success, One does not move to spoil it.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.

The critics only made me work harder.