Success Is Overrated Quotes

#1. We all thrive to achieve something. Few fails early; many wins late. Why is struggle compared when success is overrated?

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#2. Success is overrated.

Keith Olbermann

#3. When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Derek Jeter

#4. I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

John Trudell

#5. I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#6. 'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.

Steve Erickson

#7. Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

#8. I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Philip Levine

#9. History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.

Daniel Humm

#10. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.

Gary Patton

#11. The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Orson Welles

#12. K.C. reminded me of that blonde chick on The Vampire Diaries that runs around acting like every problem in the entire universe has something to do with her.

Penelope Douglas

#13. I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

Randy Johnson

#14. Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Cyril Connolly