Quotes About Success

If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It!

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

No está cubierto de flores el camino a la gloria

Lincoln responded: I have just received your dispatch of 1 p.m. yesterday. —I begin to see it. You will succeed. — God bless you all. A. LINCOLN6

Eisenhower and Patton, old friends and figures crucial to the Allies' upcoming success, conferred over yet another gaffe on Patton's part that could have cost him his command. Patton's head is on Ike's shoulder in gratitude, but the scene is rescued from being completely maudlin by Eisenhower's internal question as to whether Patton wears his ever-present helmet to bed.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Everything about the guy screamed FICTION WRITER, though the species itself broke down more or less evenly into the subcategories: 1. Great American Novelist 2. -New York Times- Bestselling Author Or that highly rare hybrid... 3. -New York Times- Bestselling Great American Novelist

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Junk the self-esteem emphasis and teach self-control and good behavior. Self-esteem has limited benefit, whereas self-control is linked to success in life. Leave behind the obsession with specialness and uniqueness. Do not automatically side with your child.

Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin...

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Excelsior, you fatheads.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success

We are doing kids a tremendous disservice when we lead them to believe that just because they are special to us (their parents), the rest of the world will treat them this way. The best preparation they can receive is not narcissism or even self-esteem, but your love and support--and your message to them that hard work and perseverance are more important to success than self-belief.