Quotes & Sayings About Undeserved Success

The more honest we become, the more we realize that our own devices get us nowhere. Even if we are having success, that success wouldn't be possible without the undeserved blessings we have received — Jessica Lowery

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. — John Calvin

Resignation to misfortune is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It seems undeserved where plans were well laid and so nearly crowned with a first success. I cannot see that any plan would be altered if it were to do again, the margin for bad weather was ample according to all experience and this stormy December - our finest month - is a thing that the most cautious organiser might not have been prepared to encounter. It is very evil to lie here in a wet sleeping-bag and think of the pity of it all. — Robert Falcon Scott

I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved. — Steven Conrad

Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are. — Harold S. Kushner

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength. — Claude Monet

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again. — Mary Deasy