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.”
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
-- Dale Carnegie
“I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.”
-- Leonardo DiCaprio
“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.”
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.”
-- Bernard Law Montgomery
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
-- Charles Caleb Colton