Quotes About Undeserved Success

#1. On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

John Calvin

#2. Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

Claude Monet

#3. It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

Mary Deasy

#4. Life is too short when you think of the length of death

Sean Mangan

#5. I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake.

Jenny Han

#6. Curled on my side, I snuggled deeper into the pile of furs lying under me. From the darkness, something growled softly and silenced the bird as a large warm hand soothed my hair. I sank back into my slumber.

M.J. Haag

#7. Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.

Harold S. Kushner

#8. The more honest we become, the more we realize that our own devices get us nowhere. Even if we are having success, that success wouldn't be possible without the undeserved blessings we have received

Jessica Lowery

#9. Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

Jackie Chan

#10. Payattention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.

Frederick Buechner

#11. I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.

Steven Conrad

#12. These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.

John McLaughlin