Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

The most successful people are so original.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

What's wrong with being number two?

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

We must be young to do great things.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

Success is overrated.