Successes Quotes

• Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.

  

  Nick Morgan
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Successes

• The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Music
  • Achievement
  • Grow

• An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Universe
  • Artist
  • Achieve

• Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

  

  Sumner Redstone
  • Failure
  • Successes
  • Catastrophe

• I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Confidence
  • Failure
  • Achievement

• Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Grows
  • Limitations
  • Insecure

• I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Happy
  • Change
  • Reasons

• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Death
  • Violence
  • Creativity

• If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Failures
  • Terms
  • Successes

• But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

  

  Herodotus
  • Gods
  • Jealous
  • Successes

• Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Fulfillment
  • Successes

• Authentic success is living by your own lights.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Successes

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