Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Success and failure are equally surprising.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Success is difficult to define.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I expected results.

We simply must do better.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Every mission accomplished.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

The end crowneth the work.