It takes time to be a success.
Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.
If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.
Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.
All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
