3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Every success story has a parent who says, ‘over my dead body.’ Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you’re acting the fool, ‘you know I worry about you sometimes.’
3 December 2020 Keith Henson People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
3 December 2020 Ricky Williams The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.
3 December 2020 Roberto Cavalli Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
3 December 2020 Celine Dion The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
3 December 2020 Cat Deeley Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we’re told we can do everything – you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.
3 December 2020 Harold Ramis Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
3 December 2020 Puff Daddy I’m in the studio 24 hours a day. It’s true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.
3 December 2020 Fidel Castro They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
3 December 2020 Leon Panetta Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.
3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr. We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
3 December 2020 Golda Meir I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
3 December 2020 Paula Radcliffe Yeah, ideally, I’d probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
3 December 2020 Nicole Scherzinger I’ve always been too hard on myself to behave like I’ve arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I’ve had. I’ve always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, ‘That’s nice but I’m supposed to go there!’
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
