Quotes About Success

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour".

The fear of failure, of feeling helpless and unable to cope, had been built up in me ever since my childhood. I had to be a success. I had to prove my worth. I had to be right. This need to succeed and to be accepted, even admired by my parents and by those whom I considered my "superiors," was a strong motivating force in me and is a motivation at the heart of many human endeavours.

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Talent, réussite, succès font de vous un ennemi de l'espèce humaine qui, à mesure qu'elle vous admire plus, se reconnaît moins en vous et préfère vous tenir à distance. Seuls les escrocs, par l'origine triviale de leur fortune, l'acquièrent sans se couper de leurs semblables et même en s'attirant leur sympathie.

Pris dans le tourbillon narcissique de leurs succès respectifs, ils n'avaient plus guère d'énergie pour se tourner l'un vers l'autre.

Under the physical therapist's gaze, I am a Tour de France long shot on the verge of pulling off a record-setting victory. Success soothes my aching muscles. I am a phenomenal downhill skier. I can still hear the roar of the crowd on the slope and the singing of the wind in my ears. I was miles ahead of the favorites. I swear!

It was exciting for him to be good at something after a lifetime of mediocrity in Tamaulipas.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

A thinking worker is bad business.

finish the Tom Clancy

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today--all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is going--and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.

Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.

even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The

Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking