success

"Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success."

"Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it."

"Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives."

"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."

"The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name."

"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."

"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it."

"The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence."

"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable."

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."

"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them."

"It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does."

"My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved."

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

"Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter"

"No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross"

"Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest."

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."