Quotes about Success

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

God does not look for success as the world understands it. He looks for faithfulness. "Who is that faithful servant?" Success is accomplishing faithfully the task allotted to you by the Lord.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

No matter what Mike Krzyzewski is making at Duke, it is not enough. He's underpaid! He is absolutely worth every penny he is getting. He is like a CEO of a major corporation when you think about his value to Duke University.

The form of the crucified disarms all thinking aimed at success, for it is a denial of judgment. Neither the triumph of the successful, nor bitter hatred of the successful by those who fail, can finally cope with the world. Jesus is certainly no advocate for the successful in history, but neither does he lead the revolt of the failures against the successful.

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.