Quotes about success

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“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.”

“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”

“Success is buried on the other side of rejection.”

“I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.”

“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.”

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”

“Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.”

“success is 99% failure”

“Success in love isn't about looks, it's about attitude.”

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

“Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.”

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.”

“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.”

“Character is that which can do without success.”

“Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.”

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”

“You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.”

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“Success always leaves footprints.”

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

“Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”

“Failure is success in progress”

“True success requires sacrifice.”

“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”

“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.”

“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”

“FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful”

“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”

“You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'
'No, sir.'
'One or the other. Not both.”

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

“Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.”

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

“The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.”

“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”

“I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.”

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

“Success… seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”

“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”

“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

“The line between failure and success is so fine… that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

“If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”

“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

“For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in
full view.”

“You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“A good title is the title of a successful book.”

“His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.”

“Calvin: From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success…. I'm just here to cash in.
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“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

“In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.”

“The doorway to success swings outward not inward.”

“The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.”

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”

“I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.”

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”

“God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.”

“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”

“Success supposes endeavour.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

“The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.”

“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside”

“Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.”

“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”

“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”

“I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.”

“Success always demands a greater effort.”

“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”

“For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.”

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.” If”

“That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”

“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”

“Working really hard is what successful people do…”

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit…. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”

“True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.”

“Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”