Top 100 Successes Quotes
#1. People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.
Stephen R. Covey
#2. 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
#3. It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded
your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself.
[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]
John F. Kennedy
#4. Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#5. Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
Albert Bandura
#6. Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.
Alex Tabarrok
#7. All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.
Dwayne Johnson
#8. It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#9. It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone
#10. All heroes' news, like something from the songs, but there's nothing like others' successes to make your own failures sting the worse.
Joe Abercrombie
#11. Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.
Paul Theroux
#12. To my guy. May he win every game he chooses to play, have many reasons to laugh, more successes than he can remember, and as long as he loves me, always have me.
Katy Evans
#13. I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.
Belinda Jeffrey
#14. There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.
Gillian Armstrong
#15. I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
Sydney Pollack
#16. The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.
Carl Jung
#17. Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.
Matthew Pearl
#18. At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.
Isaac Hayes
#19. When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.
Satya Nadella
#21. My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#22. I believe that ... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon ...
Julia Margaret Cameron
#23. Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.
Virgilia Peterson
#24. It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Sebastian Thrun
#25. When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.
Vaginal Davis
#26. Without failure, we could not relish in the achievement of our successes.
Asa Don Brown
#27. The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.
Tony Robbins
#28. Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
Lawrence Bossidy
#29. lofty dreams in the distant future are a difficult burden to carry. The best goals may be those you can handle in the next week, the next day, the next hour, or the next step; create a process that yields many small successes." "Many
Dan Millman
#30. We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
R. K. Milholland
#31. The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Alfred A. Montapert
#32. Gradually we can begin to cherish the preciousness of our whole life just as it is, with its ups and downs, its failures and successes, its roughness and smoothness.
Pema Chodron
#33. The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
Narendra Modi
#34. The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
Harvey MacKay
#35. It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
Loren Eiseley
#36. 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
#37. A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#38. Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
Mason Cooley
#39. Successful people have always been the ones to learn from the mistakes of others as well as from their successes.
John Patrick Hickey
#40. So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?
Victor Davis Hanson
#41. If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.
Christine Upton
#42. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#43. When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
Guy Kawasaki
#45. 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
#46. What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern.
Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.
Patrick Rothfuss
#47. As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#48. The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.
Daniel Quinn
#49. To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.
Conrad Hilton
#50. Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.
Margery Wilson
#52. When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#53. Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
Paul Simon
#54. Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.
Donald O. Clifton
#55. You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.
Jay Maisel
#56. True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
#57. As an entrepreneur building a multimillion-dollar business, your failures are going to be your greatest assets, provided you have a philosophy that addresses mistakes, strives to understand them, learns the key elements in them, and turns them into successes.
Ryan Blair
#58. I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
Mindy Kaling
#59. As Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "You must be proud of your enemy; then your enemy's successes are also your successes."87 Be proud of your competitors. Just don't follow them.
Eric Schmidt
#60. Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.
Michael Josephson
#61. What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
William S. Paley
#62. Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.
Simon Mainwaring
#64. Misfits deal with the double-edged reality of having our differences act as the source of both our challenges as well as our successes.
Tiffany L. Jackson
#65. You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
George Michael
#67. Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.
Norman Vincent Peale
#68. I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
Boz Scaggs
#69. I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
Brad Pitt
#70. Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#71. If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.
Lorii Myers
#72. If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
Harrison Ford
#73. Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
George Clooney
#74. I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.
Moss Hart
#76. You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.
Jane Fonda
#77. When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.
Lobsang Rampa
#78. Life is just an endless cycle of mistakes and successes, embrace either as all seconds count.
Jessie Smith
#79. It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Charlie Munger
#80. This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.
Lee Roberson
#81. Literacy is the jump-off point from which all of life's successes take flight.
Lauri Fortino
#82. Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most.
Huston Smith
#83. There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
Roger McDonald
#84. Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#85. It lasted for a long time, I believe."
"A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end.
Isaac Asimov
#86. It's not the successes in life that teach us a lesson, it's the mistakes we made to get there that truly teach us.
Steven Aitchison
#87. Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
Sam Walton
#88. Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
Jack Canfield
#89. We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them ... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.
Russell L. Ackoff
#90. The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
Pankaj Mishra
#91. The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#92. One win is not enough to rest on our oars especially where there is room and opportunity for other wins and successes.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#93. I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.
Debbi Fields
#94. Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.
Alan Arkin
#95. Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
Pierre Corneille
#96. The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case
Ralph W. Moss
#97. The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
Harold Prince
#98. Remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.
Lucille Ball
#99. I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them.
Elizabeth Peters
#100. Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.
Robin Crow
