Success Quotes
“I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.”
“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