Challenges of Success Quotes

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new host of issues that are relative dissatisfactions to a certain degree. I think it was a great philosopher who once said, "Mo' money, mo' problems."

I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it’s… there’s good sides and there’s bad sides…I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

It's crazy, it's different. It's what I wanted, but it's different. It's not exactly what I wanted, you know what I mean? If you become an actor you want to be a successful actor; but with success comes a lot of things. Some of it's great! It's great to be able to pay your rent from the work that you do.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

On the one hand, having Michael as my brother has been a help. It brought me contacts and opened the door to motor racing. But to keep that door open, I would have to say it's harder for me.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."

The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.