Quotes about Success

Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.

Find me one person who's doing something interesting in the world who hasn't felt the hot sting of a NO. Or a door slammed in the face. Or boos. Or a rejection letter. Or a tepid reception. Or bankruptcy. Or gotten fired.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

If you're too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you're too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.

Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.

Excellence is praised." "Praise inspires excellence.

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.