Quotes about Success

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

Ah, revenge, revenge. In the better world of the imagination it was possible to get one's own back. What fiendish vendettas were there carried to successful ends!

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

It's always good to be underestimated.

I've always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.