quotations about success
When things go well, you should be suspicious. When things go exceptionally well, start sniffing for the dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?
ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
Success and Other Sketches
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Pensées
Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.
KOBO ABE
The Woman in the Dunes
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
MARK TWAIN
attributed, Unlimited Power
Success is somebody else's failure.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Dancing at the Edge of the World
You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Unlimited Power: a Black Choice
The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
CHARLES BUXTON
Notes of Thought
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
ECKHART TOLLE
The Power of Now
Success is identical with happiness only on condition that we have aimed at and attained those things in life which are really worthwhile, and--if success is to be complete--the most worthwhile. Any success which does not result in happiness, in some one of its varied forms, for self or for others, is a sham.
FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP
Success: A Course in Moral Instruction
The greatest thing a man can possibly 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Success
It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.
RICK REMENDER
Black Science, No. 1, November 2013
I think, likewise, that some sense of being successful lies in knowing what scale you work best in. I give some examples: an astronomer is one whose mind can work on a cosmic scale. A physicist is one whose mind can handle the quantum scale. A theologian the metaphysical scale. A psychiatrist works with the deep picture and on and on and on. I think many people die confused and unfulfilled, because they spend a life trying to perform above or even below their abilities and perspective. They are in the wrong scale.
ROBERT FULGHUM
interview, Future Health, January 14, 2010
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
STEVE JOBS
interview, MSNBC, May 25, 2006
Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own!
TOMMY NEWBERRY
Success Is Not an Accident
Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
101 Really Important Things You Already Know But Keep Forgetting
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained in sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"The Ladder of St. Augustine"
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
MAYA ANGELOU
attributed, Telling It Like It Is