All Quotes By Tag: Success

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

“Success has always been the greatest liar – and the “work” itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the “work,” whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; “great men,” as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction”

“There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.”

“When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you… and you manage; when you are truly LIVING, you happen to life… and you lead.”

“The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.”

“It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.”

“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”

“Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it.”

“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”

“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.”

“Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.”

“I don’t know where this pressure came from. I can’t blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn’t win, then we wouldn’t tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun.”

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

“It’s no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”