Success Challenges Quotes

You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

What success has done is present me with a lot of opportunities, and I haven't necessarily learned to say 'no' as well as I should have.

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.

There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.

Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it at a young age.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

Failure is quite easy to handle because no one is looking at you. Success is difficult to keep and not everyone could handle it.

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.