Success Quotes
“I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.”
“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