10 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Success

Orson Scott Card quotes on success

39. He can never come to believe that anyone will ever help him out, ever. If he once thinks there's an easy way out, he's wrecked.

171. I thought: if I could just make a good family, if I could just learn to be to a mother to the children, their whole lives, what [he] was, coming so late into ours, then that would mean more in the long run, it would be a finer accomplishment than anything I could ever do with my mind or my hands.

192. That means you, more than any of the others, stand to lose something truly beautiful and fine if we don't succeed in our endeavors.

312. ''Waterloo was won,'' quoted Rackham, ''on the playing fields of Eton.'' 'What the hell does that mean?' asked Carn Carby. 'You never even went to Eton.' 'It was an analogy,' said Rackham. 'If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated.'

579. I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

591. They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be

769. You're very good at this. Practice a little more, so it doesn't sound memorized, and speeches like that will make your fortune, I promise you

789. Was that disloyal of me? To look forward to the day when I could show you my work? Who else but you would understand what I achieved? Who else but me could know how far beyond our dreams you succeeded? We changed the world

932. I might have been on the outside looking in; at the bottom looking up. Now I'm on the outside, all right, but above, looking down. I don't need anything these people have to offer. What I need, they don't even care about. Some of them probably even have it, and are wasting it, losing it.

1111. Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.