All About Success
‘Writing success’ brings people to this site daily. Success is a topic people have a LOT of opinions about, so I thought I would round up some of my favourites here. If you need a boost right now, check it out. If you don’t, bookmark it for later … because writing has a habit of kicking us in the teeth!
1) Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.
2) Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
3) Somerset W. Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
4) Ellen DeGeneres
It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
5) Arnold H. Glasgow
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
6) Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
7) Coco Chanel
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
8) Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
9) Malcolm X
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
10) Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity.
11) Sophocles
There is no success without hardship.
12) Michael Jordan
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
13) Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
14) David Frost
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
15) Oprah Winfrey
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
16) Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
17) David Brinkley
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
18) Criss Jami
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritise your passion. It keeps you sane.
19) George S. Patton
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
20) Beverley Sills
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Per ardua ad astra (RAF)
Sophocles was a bit harsh: no success without hardship? Must have been a lazy bugger, equating effort with hardship!