Quotes about success

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“Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”

“Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

“I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.”

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.”

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

“So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front?
- Yes - I have warned them all.”

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

“Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.”

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”

“Successful people don’t do it alone.”

“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”

“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way”

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who
have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve
our goals.”

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”

“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.”

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
By John Maxwell”

“I am made, crudely, for success.”

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”

“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.”

“Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

“Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.”

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.”

“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”

“If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“The road to success is always under construction”

“Someone else's success is not your failure.”

“It is my belief… that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I. Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.”

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

“Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.”

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”

“Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

“all success cloaks a surrender”

“I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”

“The key to success is failure”

“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot… I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”

“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?”

“We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.”

“In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it.”

“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.”

“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing…. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”

“It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling Man up to its level of sagacity, but Man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”

“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

“Failure is just a few seconds away from success.”

“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.”

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”

“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail…”

“Success equals goals; all else is commentary.”

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

“Without Struggle There Is No Success”

“Shame resilience is the ability to say, “This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating. But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me. My value is courage and I was just courageous. You can move on, shame.”

“What is success?" poses the Copt. "It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”

“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”

“In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.”

“Why be a man when you can be a success.”

“… art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication…”

“Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.”

“Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.”

“Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.”

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

“I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?”

“Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.”

“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.”

“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.”

“Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

“They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.”

“Every new & successful example therefore of, is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that.

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“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”