Quotes About Success

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

They had entered the great upheaval because all doors were closed to them and had come out of it with new fortunes and freshly minted titles. He had lost almost everything but not given up liberty.

Riuscire? In quale momento si può avere la pretesa di riuscire? Non cerchiamo di riuscire, cerchiamo di vivere intensamente. Riuscire non è lo scopo di un fotografo. La fotografia è una passione di cui si è fatto un mestiere.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

As long as you are conscious of your wish to be empty, you will never succeed in becoming empty.

T]he ignorant soul is unaware even of that in which another is successful, but knowledge bears additional witness to that which is well done.

Opera producer Larry Kelly

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Drucker argued that this decentralization was key to the success of GM.