Quotes about Success
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
— Marilyn Monroe
Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.
— Neil Anderson
I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
— Nicole Kidman
When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.
— Olly Alexander
You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.
— Tucker Max
The Northern press, as a whole, did not discourage these claims; a portion of it always magnified rebel success and belittled ours, while another portion, most sincerely earnest in their desire for the preservation of the Union and the overwhelming success of the Federal armies, would nevertheless generally express dissatisfaction with whatever victories were gained because they
— Ulysses S. Grant
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
— Victor Hugo
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
— Victor Hugo
I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.
— Victor Hugo
Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
— Victor Hugo
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
— Victor Hugo
Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
— Victor Hugo