Quotes About Success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

We work hard at X to make it safe to fail. Teams kill their ideas as soon as the evidence is on the table because they're rewarded for it. They get applause from their peers. Hugs and high fives from their manager, me in particular. They get promoted for it. We have bonused every single person on teams that ended their projects, from teams as small as two to teams of more than 30.48

But for jobs where learning or collaboration is required for success, fear is not an effective motivator. Brain science has amply demonstrated that fear inhibits learning and cooperation.

For most Americans, especially now, striving and insecurity are likely to be rewarded with more striving and insecurity; you can do everything right and still have little to show for it.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

The dieter will fail as long as he hates low-calorie food. The would-be athlete will fail as long as he hates exertion. The tightwad wannabe will fail as long as he views frugality as a lifestyle he has to endure, or was forced into by circumstance.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic." Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

For Kelly #6, his latest, that Seth had recorded with an entire orchestra behind him—and apparently, had sold and was touring to promote, for money, because Seth kept sending that too.

You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

The report also said I show great potential as an agent. I figure they must be right, since I successfully broke into a safe to find that out.

He was like Tennessee Williams, shooting three bull's-eyes in a row, all with his blind eye.

I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.

Some men,' they said, `are born princes, and some raise themselves by their talents to be kings among men.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

The Passion narrative asks much of us, and it also, through Jesus' example, gives us the knowledge that we can do what we are asked, and the assurance that we will succeed.

Some women think that successful lies in mariage and making children

You can become rich easily but it's quite hard to become bourgeois

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

You are poor when you have nothing to show for." "Thus, making you look weak in comparison.