Quotes About Success

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

It is the turnover, not the volume of purchases, that measures success in the life of homo consumens.

T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.

And these have been successfully tested. Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact. Face & Luke

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Achievement has no color

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.