Quotes About Success

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace;If not, by any means get wealth and place.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Bu özel giysili hizmetkar ve süslü araba dizisi Orazio'nun meslek ya?am?nda çok yararl? bir i? görmü? oluyordu. Bunun ad? prestijdi, zaferdi.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one. It's the pressure and the panic to tick all the boxes and reach all the goals . . . and what happens when you don't. When you find yourself on the outside. Because on some level, in some aspect of your life, it's so easy to feel like you're failing when everyone around you appears to be succeeding.

What I want to know is, when did busy become better? When did a jam-packed diary become a measure of success?

Someone else's success is not your failure.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Our

If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those "mature" people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

From deep contentment comes the courage to achieve.

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

Besides, what best prepares children to deal with the challenges of the "real world" is to experience success and joy. People don't get better at coping with unhappiness because they were deliberately made unhappy when they were young.

All rewards have the same effect," one writer declares. "They dilute the pure joy that comes from success itself.

In extreme cases, the "press for success" can reach a fever pitch, such that the child's present is essentially mortgaged to the future. Activities that might bring meaning or enjoyment are sacrificed in a ceaseless effort to prepare for Harvard.

Being afraid of failure isn't at all the same thing as embracing success. In fact, the former gets in the way of the latter.