Momentary Success Quotes

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

One of the things I've said to teams and players from time to time - especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando - is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it's tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

Everything is temporary. I don't know how long will I have my time here in the industry. I want to concentrate in making good music. That will be my biggest satisfaction.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

In showbiz, so much success and fame comes your way and then it passes on to someone else.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.

I'm really thankful for the popularity of 'Strong Woman Do Bong Soon,' but I know it's only temporary.

I know as quickly as people come up you can go down and I'm just trying to enjoy it and experience things that I never got to have, that's all it is.

Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.

I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

I know how quickly it can all change. I nearly won the title at Liverpool, and everybody's saying, 'Sign him up' - then, very quickly, I was out.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.