Quotes About Success

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard.

Ambitious people tend to get critical assignments. But if having a full plate keeps you from appearing available when a new opportunity arises, you'll be passed over, possibly in favor of some laggard who appears to have plenty of time to take on new duties.

I say its realism, bearing on mind Harold Rosenbergs wicked remark that realism is one of fifty-seven varieties of decoration. What about the term experimental, which is often applied to your work? Its not quite a hostile remark, but it does contain within it the notion of the failed experiment. Something like Bone Bubbles was, yes, an experiment and although I wouldnt suggest it was wholly successful, I thought it worth publishing. Its something I do along with a number of other things.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

What worked, GAO found, was strong leadership commitment, investment in the capacity needed to get the job done, careful monitoring of results, and a commitment to stay with the problems until they were solved. Investment in government's capacity, and careful attention to key details, demonstrated that failure is not the only option. But success builds on people power.

Sure, sure," said Bugs Meany, pushing his way to the front. "I'll be so rich my little sister will have to quit piano lessons and take up playing the cash register!

I'm going, to make money out of the stars.

A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

If you want to do amazing things with your life.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.