Quotes about Success

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!

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.