Quotes About Success

Desconozco todas las claves para el éxito, pero tratar de agradar a todo el mundo es una de las claves para el fracaso. Ser influenciado por la opinión de los demás te garantiza perder los propósitos de Dios para tu vida.

Nada es más importante que conocer los propósitos de Dios para tu vida, y nada puede compensarte por no conocerlos; ni siquiera el éxito, la riqueza, la fama o los placeres.

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.

What happened? A long track record of relatively stable success caused the ambition to hungrily search for new opportunities to atrophy.

To work at what you love—a heaping up of joys.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Puffin is over seventy years old.

gambling's not a sin provided that you always win.

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Then she was led away across the room to meet other people. I stood watching her. She was clearly conscious of her success and of the way these Londoners were deferring to her. "Here am I," she seemed to be saying, "and I only came over a few years ago, but already I am richer and more powerful than any of you." There was a little prance of triumph in her walk.

University? Mr Wormwood shouted, bouncing up in his chair. Who wants to go to university, for heaven's sake! All they learn there is bad habits! That's not true, Miss Honey said. If you had a heart attack this minute and had to call a doctor, that doctor would be a university graduate. If you got sued for selling someone a rotten second-hand car, you'd have to get a lawyer and he'd be a university graduate, too. Do not despise clever people, Mr Wormwood.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

Goals and plans are fine, and they can often be effective motivators, but success promises something it can't deliver. As soon as you reach your goal, success creates a new one, which creates new anxieties and stresses.

Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.

The actor Mark Ruffalo went to six hundred auditions before he got his first break. Six hundred NOs before the first YES.

Find me one person who's doing something interesting in the world who hasn't felt the hot sting of a NO.

To do anything new—to do the 1—requires tremendous mental fortitude to not think about 2 or 3 yet. That time will come. And it is not now. Now is the time for 1. You start with 1. And you work on that. Just 1. And when 1 is done, you move to 2.

Success says, What more can I get? Craft says, Can you believe I get to do this?

What did you get, Mr Edwards?' 'Three As.' 'And what were you expecting?' Mr Edwards looks right into the camera and, completely deadpan, says, 'Three As.' For Edwards, the perfectionist, this still wasn't good enough. He wanted no, needed - to be the best and a simple grade wasn't enough to confirm this, even to himself.

The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something—something big. And now, no sooner

Robert A. Caro