C. S. Lewis Quotes

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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• There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Success
  • Saying

• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• This bikini made me a success.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Success
  • Me
  • Made

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Balance

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
  • Matter

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

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Two

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

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Success

• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  

  Mae West
  • Important
  • Success
  • Personality

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• 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

• Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Success
  • Like
  • Someone

• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • World
  • College
  • Hurt

• I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Americans
  • Flavours
  • Korean barbecue

• I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol, but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Wife
  • Shows
  • Idols

• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Honor
  • Writer

• I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

  

  Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Up
  • Writing

• Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Success
  • Road
  • Failure