success

"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."

"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."

"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."

"The secret of success is sincerity."

"As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65"

"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."

"I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there."

"There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation."

"When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you."

"The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there."

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."

"If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?"

"No guts, no story."

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

"I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me."

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

"The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."

"I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success."

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."