Claiming Success Quotes

#1. The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

Lucian

#2. The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

Yanis Varoufakis

#3. Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Hillary Clinton

#4. The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

Ray Kroc

#5. How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Writing is healthy schizophrenia.

J.R. Morton

#7. I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

Harold Ramis

#8. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom.

Amy Poehler

#9. For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

Vin Diesel

#10. I was too unsettled. Too full. Full of dark thoughts, dark musing, as if I'd eaten them for dinner instead of the roasted duck, and they were sitting undigested in my stomach, waiting to be vomited back up at the wrong time. The threat of it hung over my mind like nausea.

Kate Avery Ellison

#11. And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.

Amby Burfoot

#12. A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where all the good stories are swimming around waiting to be rescued from the soul."
Kathleen M. Rodgers ~ 1998

Kathleen M. Rodgers

#13. Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

Anais Nin

#14. Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.

Firoz Thairinil

#15. What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#16. The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

Mick Ebeling