Quotes About Perspective

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

Success is overrated.

Success is always less funny than failure.

My literary success meant nothing to me

I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.