It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
Arundhati Roy
Related To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy ... MICHAEL KORDA Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure. WILL ARNETT Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. DON SHULA This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a... MICHAEL KORDA I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES Success is survival. LEONARD COHEN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. AISHA TYLER Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI Success is not in what you have, but who you are. BO BENNETT Success is dependent on effort. SOPHOCLES Take charge of your life and create the success you really want SOTONYE ANGA Success is more difficult to handle than failure. RAVI ZACHARIAS Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes... SUMNER REDSTONE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. PAUL SWEENEY The true success is the person who invented himself. AL GOLDSTEIN See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. GRAHAM GREENE I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. EARL WILSON Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. JOHN WOODEN The road to success is always under construction. ARNOLD PALMER Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift. TOMMY SHAW Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ZIG ZIGLAR Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The road to success is always under construction. LILY TOMLIN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. TOM SHADYAC You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus. LUCAS GRABEEL I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading. PAUL TUDOR JONES I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. ROBERT KIYOSAKI Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing. SCOTT MORTENSEN The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. HARVEY S. FIRESTONE What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Life is a game and true love is a trophy. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. COCO CHANEL I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN Success is really about your mindset. F. GARY GRAY Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. BOBBY UNSER The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. NAPOLEON HILL Assimilation, not success, is the American end game. EUNY HONG Focus on being balanced - success is balance. LAILA ALI Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting. BETH BROOKE Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets. SHELLI THOMPSON I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy... PABLO PICASSO Failure is just a word. A word that keeps me motivated to achieve a great success in the future. MOHD ARIF HASHIM BAKHTIAR Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the... NEIL STRAUSS The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. IRVING BERLIN When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. SHAH RUKH KHAN Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. JOHN C. MAXWELL The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that ... ELBERT HUBBARD I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. EMMA DONOGHUE Failure is most Important ingredient for Success...At times,Success is nothing else but "Failure" to... ASHISH SOPHAT His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of i... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. LAO TZU Life is a magical game so play it with love. DEBASISH MRIDHA The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. AYN RAND Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. EARL NIGHTINGALE Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. MARILYN VOS SAVANT The path to success is to take massive, determined action. TONY ROBBINS Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. OSCAR WILDE The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary. KENDRICK LAMAR Success is always a matter of some luck and timing. KATHLEEN KENNEDY Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. JIM ROHN The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. MARY WILSON LITTLE Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. ELIAS CANETTI I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination. BERT LANCE Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective. ADRIAN GRENIER
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