By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.
I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.
You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.
I've succeeded at everything except my life.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.
Growth inside fuels growth outside.
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.
When we have public success we also have private struggles.
I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.
The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life.
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.
The more that all of the external things began to materialize, the less the internal things began to crystallize.
