Sherwood Anderson Quotes

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

Experiencing so many firsts, maturing as an actor, a professional, and a human. In the process, gaining friends, family, and the best coworkers a very lucky actor could ask for - and for this, I can be nothing but gracious.

The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.

My debut season was a good one for me, especially at 16, but I said that I want to improve.

My life gets better every year.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

The motive of success is not enough.

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?