Quotes About Success

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel:

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko:

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

The path of a single man can be difficult but the results of what he does can be great.

I think that's the hardest lesson I have had to learn as a parent; no matter how much I try, I am not able to guarantee my sons' happiness and success.

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses.

T]he individual man, provided he wants to achieve some great end... must always concentrate his efforts on one definitely limited stage of his progress, which has to be completed before the next step is attempted. Those who don't attempt to realize their aims step by step, and who don't concentrate their energy in reaching the individual stages, will never attain the final objective.

Obstacles are placed across our path not to be boggled at, but to be surmounted.

Imparai l'importanza del dolore fisico nei confronti del singolo come della massa. Anche qui è necessario un calcolo preciso degli effetti psicologici: il terrore sarà sempre accompagnato dal successo, se non vi si oppone un identico terrore

The significance of a political philosopher does not depend on the practical success of the plans he lays down but rather on their absolute truth and the influence they exert on the progress of mankind. If

The test of greatness as applied to a political leader is the success of his plans and his enterprises, which means his ability to reach the goal for which he sets out; whereas the final goal set up by the political philosopher can never be reached; for human thought may grasp truths and picture ends which it sees like clear crystal, though such ends can never be completely fulfilled because human nature is weak and imperfect. The

If you want to shine like the sun, first you have to burn like it.

Nothing, which is great in this world, was given as a gift to man. Everything had to be bitterly, difficulty won in struggle. Speech of May 1, 1933 in Berlin

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Mladý muž je tehdy bohatý, má-li rozum v hlav? a dobrý oblek ve sk?íni.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

And dinnae be afraid to fail. The only way to learn anything in life is to try and fail, then continue trying until ye succeed.