The Of Success Quotes

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life. They are not worth it.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.

This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.

Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

There is nothing like success to breed followers.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

Even success needs its consolations.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.