SUCCESS QUOTES II
quotations about success
Success is a helluva drug.
CARLOTA ZIMMERMAN
"Empathy in Emails", Huffington Post, July 10, 2017
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
American Cavalcade, October 1937
If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
remark to Samuel J. Woolf, summer 1929
Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!
CARMELLO ANTHONY
Twitter post, December 3, 2011
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
ARTHUR MILLER
Paris Review, Summer 1966
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
"Last Words", Poems of Owen Meredith
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; for, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Summing Up
The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority, that worldly success is a natural result.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
A Return to Love
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
MICHAEL PHELPS
Woman's Day, April 1, 2009
Success doesn't come to you. You go to it.
MARVA COLLINS
attributed, Making a Difference in Your World
The chances of a man's succeeding who does not love his work are very small. For all success costs labor.
FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP
Success: A Course in Moral Instruction
Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.
GORDON PARKS
Voices in the Mirror
There are those who deny that success is pre-eminently desirable, or that it is by any means identical with happiness. No doubt there are many enjoyments outside of worldly success. After all, it is pleasant to lie in bed till eight o'clock in the morning, instead of turning out at five; it is pleasant to hug the chimney-corner, instead of breasting the pitiless storm; it is pleasant to pass one's evenings in the bosom of a family; pleasant, too, to taste the difference between winter and spring, fine sunsets and storms, town and country. The path of success, never "a primrose path of dalliance," is steeper and more thorny today than ever before. Never before in the world's history was competition in every calling and pursuit so fierce as now; never did success, in more than a moderate degree, demand for its attainment such a union of physical and intellectual qualities--of alertness, activity, prudence, persistence, boldness, and decision--as in this latter half of the nineteenth century. Carlyle truly says that "the race of life has become intense; the runners are treading upon each other's heels; woe be to him who stops to tie his shoe-strings!" This fact alone is sufficient to show the absurdity of the opinion sometimes advanced, that success is not, as a general thing, a test of merit. In spite of the occasional triumphs of mediocre men and charlatans, the rule still holds, that the men who make their way to the front, becoming rich or famous by force of their personal characters, must have something more in them than impudence, and even the Hudsons and Fisks could not have won their positions without some sterling qualities, however alloyed with their opposites.
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
"Success and Failure", Hints on Success in Life
Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
They must try who would succeed.
THEOCRITUS
"The Two Ladies of Syracuse"
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
SATCHEL PAIGE
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
All great success is preceded by failure.
BRIAN TRACY
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success