Success Quotes - page 77

Understanding reality, in the sense of being able to use what we know to predict what we don't, is best achieved using the tools of science, and is never achieved using the methods of faith. That is attested by the acknowledged success of science in telling us about everything from the smallest bits of matter to the origin of the universe itself-compared with the abject failure of religion to tell us anything about gods, including whether they exist. (Jerry Coyne)
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life. View quote
Katy Perry
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. View quote
H. G. Wells
With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it. View quote
Steven Erikson
He, therefore, who desires peace, should prepare for war. He who aspires to victory, should spare no pains to form his soldiers. And he who hopes for success, should fight on principle, not chance. (Book 3, Foreword) View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
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. View quote
Golda Meir
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. (Ingrid Bergman)
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living. View quote
Sophia Loren
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. View quote
Aesop
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Of course I'm delighted that Fun Home has met with such success, but it still strikes me as very unlikely that an odd, cerebral story about a lesbian and her closeted gay suicidal mortician father would have struck a chord with anyone but me. View quote
Alison Bechdel
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. View quote
Thomas J. Watson
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure. View quote
Thomas J. Watson
It would be very convincing to say that there's no hope for movies - that audiences have been so corrupted by television and have become so jaded that all they want are noisy thrills and dumb jokes and images that move along in an undemanding way, so they can sit and react at the simplest motor level. And there's plenty of evidence, such as the success of Alien. This was a haunted-house-with-gorilla picture set in outer space. It reached out, grabbed you, and squeezed your stomach; it was more gripping than entertaining, but a lot of people didn't mind. They thought it was terrific, because at least they'd felt something: they'd been brutalized. It was like an entertainment contrived in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World by the Professor of Feelies in the College of Emotional Engineering. View quote
Pauline Kael
"They say that a military confrontation with Iran would undermine the efforts already underway, that it would be ineffective, and that it would provoke even more vindictive action by Iran. I've heard these arguments before. In fact, I've read them before. In my desk, I have copies of an exchange of letters between the World Jewish Congress and the US War Department. The year was 1944. The World Jewish Congress implored the American government to bomb Auschwitz. The reply came five days later. I want to read it to you: "Such an operation could be executed only by diverting considerable air support essential to the success of our forces elsewhere... and in any case would be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources”... And here's the most remarkable sentence of all. And I quote: "Such an effort might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.” Think about that – "even more vindictive action”. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
I am a born builder. I grew up pretty fearless with an understanding that if you want something in life, you have to be creative in going about achieving it. You're not always going to have an easy path to success, but if it's important enough you'll figure out a way to make it work. (Jessica Alba)
The success of SpaceShipOne was Justice Day for dreamers and pioneers past, present and future. View quote
Vanna Bonta
I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. View quote
Cameron Diaz
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. View quote
Orlando Bloom
My literary success meant nothing to me. View quote
Taylor Caldwell