Top 78 Quotes About Past Successes
#1. Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
Robert Greene
#2. Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
Guy Laliberte
#3. Build on past successes, be grateful for what you do have, and know that this, too, shall pass. It's only for the now. Whatever we're facing, it's not forever.
Dave Pelzer
#4. Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
Bill Loguidice
#5. The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
Henry Petroski
#6. To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.
Conrad Hilton
#7. You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.
Jay Maisel
#8. America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.
Kevin McCarthy
#9. Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.
Jack Canfield
#10. Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.
Stephanie Gilmore
#11. My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
John Hutton
#12. An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
Henry Petroski
#13. I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
Pieter Zeeman
#14. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley
#16. I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
Vinod Khosla
#17. All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
Vonda N. McIntyre
#18. You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.
Charlie Munger
#19. We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
Denis Waitley
#21. The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. You won't be judged just by your successes and failure but also by how you reacted to success and failure.
Decker Schutt
#23. When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.
Eliot Spitzer
#24. I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.
Vonda Shepard
#25. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.
Jonathan Tucker
#26. I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.
Warren Buffett
#27. Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.
Amit Kalantri
#29. The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.
Richard Misrach
#30. And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of
Sam Walton
#31. I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#32. I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.
Michael Buble
#33. Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people ... It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
Carol S. Dweck
#34. A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
Vanilla Ice
#35. For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
#36. You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.
Lorii Myers
#37. It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.
Stefanie Schneider
#38. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
#39. Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
Douglas Adams
#40. Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
#41. This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy
#42. We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
Satya Nadella
#43. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Charles R. Swindoll
#44. Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the past, my fears and hopes of the future are all shadows. Today is my reality, and I'll use it to create my world.
Taylor Stevens
#45. There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#46. Recognize your failures when they happen but don't dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you've done it once, you can do it again. Build on that. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.
Jason Versey
#47. If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier
Abraham Lincoln
#48. In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures
Walter Prescott Webb
#49. What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#50. Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
Eric Maisel
#51. Forget "minimum viable products" - ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others' successes.
Peter Thiel
#52. Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes
#53. My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.
Juice Newton
#54. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
Marianne Williamson
#55. The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.
Jack Canfield
#56. Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#57. Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#58. If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Mat Hoffman
#59. I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#60. A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
Woodrow Wilson
#61. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#62. I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.
Andie MacDowell
#63. Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.
Cory Booker
#64. No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
Henry Petroski
#65. The sole key to these large-scale successes in the work of God and the staggering results you see in the ministries of anointed men of God has been their abilitity to hear the voice of God and be obedient to it.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
Jay Inslee
#67. Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
Arthur Levitt
#68. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#69. Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
Wendy Davis
#70. Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.
Mike Michalowicz
#71. An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.
Craig M. Mullaney
#72. But you must remember that while you can certainly learn from the successes of great men, you can learn even more from their failures and mistakes.
Amish Tripathi
#73. I've had a life experience that's full of warts, full of successes.
Jeb Bush
#74. A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
Roberto Burle Marx
#75. Look around your competitors and learn from them.
Look within for your talents and exploit them.
Look back at your failures and learn from them.
Look forward to your successes and reach for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.
Susan Sontag
#77. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.
Patrick Rothfuss
#78. All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Paul Fussell
