Quotes About Success

I like to think it's another way of saying great things tend to happen all at once.

Not if she hasn't succeeded in convincing them that she is behind them, no matter what.

No one else has a clue what you're doing, but at the end of the day, you get to where you want to go.

Maybe everything comes out all right, if you keep on trying. Anyway, you have to keep on trying; nothing will come out right if you don't.

Success gets to be a habit, like anything else a fellow keeps on doing.

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.

You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible.

Successful people know that small things done repeatedly have great power.

Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.

I can accomplish more before breakfast than I used to do in a day.

Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

I was new and didn't realize that brand new writers are treated like light bulbs; when one burns out, you can always buy more, screw the next one in, and it lights up just as bright. No, I am not being too harsh about how publishing treats new writers. If anything I'm toning it down. Sorry, for all you aspiring authors out there, but truth is truth, it is a hard business. Shine up the armor around your ego, harden your heart, keep your head down, and write.

Never argue when you're winning. (Crimson Death)

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be us.

Lauren Weisberger

and right now I had to contend with a coterie of people who lived and died on the runway.

The life spent in doing what you love is a different life indeed from putting yourself out for hire to the highest bidder.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

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While at SMLA, I wrote a science fiction short-short called "Make A Prison." It worked its way all the way down to the very bottom of the S-F food chain, finally selling to Bob Lowndes at Original Science Fiction Stories for a half cent a word, then wound up in Judith Merril's prestigious annual anthology. I was elated—but I never wrote another piece of science fiction.

And was there anything on earth as dangerous as getting everything you ever wanted? As