Elusive Success Quotes

It's so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

There's no such thing as 'making it.'

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.