Unexpected Success Quotes

#1. Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#2. No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success. In no other area are innovative opportunities less risky and their pursuit less arduous. Yet the unexpected success is almost totally neglected; worse, managements tend actively to reject it.

Peter F. Drucker

#3. Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

Dean Wareham

#4. I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Francisco Goya

#5. An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.

Laurie Nadel

#6. Best way to gain greater credibility, clout and success: involve unexpected allies, ardently united around something specific that you all believe is meaningful.

Kare Anderson

#7. I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

Marie Curie

#8. The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#9. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Bill Gates

#12. Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. You could only anticipate certain scenarios and prepare to deal with each. Success came to those who best reacted as the unexpected occurred in discordance with those plans.

Alex Albrinck

#14. The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

William Ernest Henley

#15. Never give up.Never give up on anything.
Never stop trying. It better to try and fail than never trying. All the experiences are necessary. It will prepare you for the great success which comes unexpected.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Life has a sense of humour; it hides its best treasures in unexpected places.

Mensah Oteh