“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“your wins do not require an audience in order for them to be deemed 'successful'”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“For my whole career in retail, I have stuck by one guiding principle. It’s a simple one, and I have repeated it over and over and over in this book until I’m sure you’re sick to death of it. But I’m going to say it again anyway: the secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they…”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“Going from success to significance is a shift from getting to giving. It's not about power/status, it's about relationships.”— Ken Blanchard, twitter.com
“Your success grows in direct proportion to your courage to use your gifts to serve the world.”— Jordan Bacj, twitter.com
“Because deep down, your soul knows: sometimes the very things we think will save us are the things we need to be saved from – to pursue something even greater than we ever imagined.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“To succeed in following your dreams You must have the courage to be hated”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“Fortunate circumstances must concur, even to the greatest, to render them eminently successful. It is not permitted to all to be born, like Archimedes, when a science was to be created; nor, like Newton, to find the system of the world "without form and void;" and, by disclosing gravitation, to shed…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“When you first begin to make money and become a success, you say to yourself, ‘I'd better get all these things I wanted!’" because how fruitless it would be if you could afford these things and didn't get them. So you accumulate everything. And then you begin to realize that the materialistic things…”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.com
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.”— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org
“There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.”— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“The only way that you’re going to be successful is doing something different.”— Ryan Eller, recordonline.com
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”— Mignon McLaughlin, amazon.com