Quotes about Success

When I got to know that I will be doing 'Dilwale,' I was numb. I called my mother and told her, and there was a two-minute silence.

Nothing concerns me other than my time. That is my only concern. I don't pay any attention to the rest. I run after time. If that improves, the gold, silver, etc. will follow.

You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.

A professional does not take success or failure personally.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him.

End first, then beginning and middle. That's your startup, that's your plan for competing in a triathlon, that's your ballet.

My friend Tony Keppelman snapped me out of it by asking if I was gonna quit. Hell, no! Then be happy. You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful. That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure. FOR LOVE OF THE GAME

If we can't finish, all our work is for nothing.

Work—day-in, day-out exertion and concentration—produces progress and order. That's a law of the universe.

The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

It's the best of jobs. It's the most difficult of jobs. It can bring you the greatest joy. It can cause the greatest pain. There is nothing as fulfilling and exhilarating. There's nothing so depleting and exhausting. No area of your life can make you feel more like a success when everything is going well. No area of your life can make you feel more like a failure when things go wrong.