Wallace Stevens Quotes

Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.

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• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Home

• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Success
  • Respect

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Two

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Success
  • Wine

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Success
  • Succeed
  • Get More

• Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Success
  • Loneliness

• I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Important
  • True
  • Today

• Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Success
  • Progress
  • Goals

• Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Success