Success Quotes
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'”
-- Florence Scovel Shinn
“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”
-- Charles Kendall Adams
“I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.”
-- Alanis Morissette
“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”
-- W. Somerset Maugham
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
-- Robert Kiyosaki