Quotes tagged ‘Success’

“Best career advice that I can give: Don't ever attach yourself to a person, a place, a company, an organization or a project.”

— erica williams simon, twitter.com

“You never succeed in this business until you’ve had the experience of working with a terrible hangover.”

— Harry Caray, youtube.com

“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”

— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com

“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”

— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com

“Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”

— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com

“And I shall grow young again in the storm and drift of the foam and the dark wild waves! Yes — a wandering life suits me — and I am not sorry to have a taste of it once more. There's nothing like it — nothing like a broad ocean and sweeping wind!”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Curses sometimes turn to blessings, father!”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“I’m not the BEST rapper, but I’m the MOST successful. I’m not the BEST looking but I’m the MOST beautiful. I don’t got the BEST love but I get the MOST love. MOST vs BEST You can try to be BEST forever and never get that recognition. Being the MOST will have your life filled with the BEST moments.”

— Lizzo, twitter.com

“Perfectionists can actually use this impulse to their advantage. Their drive to do things better than anyone else can also translate into motivation to keep working on bettering something where others would have given up.”

— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com

“Getting away from my work pretty much equates to paralysis, I simply don’t know what to do with myself when I am away. I hope the same for others, because I’ve always said the world looks very different, when you’re pushing yourself every second you’ve got. Have I succeeded? I’ve succeeded in being…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.”

— Eddie Vedder, believermag.com

“People who win keep winning because they play safe, while people who lose can keep losing because they're risking too much.”

— JR Thorpe, bustle.com

“If ever a man deserved his success, that man was Okonkwo. At an early age he had achieved fame as the greatest wrestler in all the land. That was not luck. At the most one could say that his chi or personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man say yes his chi says yes also…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning, 'Whatever is worth doing at al…”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“I have never yet met a successful person that hasn’t had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. Overnight success is much more of a myth than reality.”

— Harvey Mackay, harveymackay.com

“Don’t worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”

— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com

“Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.”

— Mike Ditka, articles.chicagotribune.com

“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”

— Mike Ditka, inc.com