Consequences of Success Quotes

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

Successful parties create their own monsters.

A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.

The price third parties pay for their success is enormous – for after their issues have been taken up by others, they have become irrelevant ...

Success is beautiful and dangerous.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.