I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette DavisRead
Your luck is how you treat people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The way you treat others influences the positivity or negativity you experience in life.
Bette Davis's quote emphasizes the idea that our interactions with others significantly shape our experiences and opportunities in life. Good treatment of people can create a positive environment that enhances one's 'luck,' suggesting that kindness and respect can lead to favorable outcomes and relationships.
Themes
LuckTreating OthersRelationshipsKindnessRespect
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about teamwork, one might say, 'Remember, your luck is how you treat people.'
More from Bette Davis
All quotes βI have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette DavisRead
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette DavisRead
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette DavisRead
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
Bette DavisRead
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
Bette DavisRead
Similar quotes
Networking is extremely masculine. It's a vulnerable thing to admit to, but even I experience feeling super insecure around certain masculine meetings. So, we put women in control. Women will make the first move on Bumble Bizz as well.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.
Stephen KingRead
She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was justβlike, a person.
John GreenRead
Find the right people, not the best people.
Jack MaRead
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De AngelisRead