Quotes about Success

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it's how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that's all to his benefit.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there