SUCCESS QUOTES VI

quotations about success

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

CHARLES BUXTON

Notes of Thought


Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Taiko

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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall

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There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Where the Blue Begins

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In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean

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Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings
The soul with poison of Prosperity.

EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR

"Adversity"

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We all love looking down
All we want is some success
But the chance is never around
It's all part of the process

MORCHEEBA

"Part of the Process"


The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

IRVING BERLIN

Theatre Arts, February 1958

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Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"

JULIE ANDREWS

This Week, September 18, 1966

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Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

DAVE RAMSEY

daily tip, official Dave Ramsey website


Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up.

DAVE RAMSEY

daily tip, official Dave Ramsey website


delicate moment
saw you again
leap year summer
presence drew in
flies of success
squandered about
ritual fashion
leaving no doubt
you were a hit
plain to see
busy boulevard
hidden street
I prayed lightly
weaved my path
raise no question
how I survived
the aftermath
but I see no reason to covet
cause I'm just thinking
it all seems so amusing
failure and success

SACCHARINE TRUST

"Success and Failure"


Success is a mix of sailing skill, grit, determination and improvisation; having to deal with broken yards, torn sails, capsizes and, in one instance, a rudder being washed away, not to mention the obligatory blisters, sand fly bites and sunburn that come with wild camping on deserted dessert islands.

ANONYMOUS

"Ngalawa Cup: The Nuclear Option", Scuttlebutt Sailing News, July 10, 2017


Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

attributed, Witty Words from Wise Women: Quips, Quotes, and Comebacks

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Remember that your real success takes place inside your mind. It's not facts, nor others' acts, nor events, that matter. Nothing matters in the long run but the temper of your spirit. Keep thinking success; and the more you are rebuffed the harder you must think it.

FRANK CRANE

"Ten Success Hunches", Four Minute Essays

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.

SAMUEL SMILES

Self-Help

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Confident expectation of success makes us a receiving instrument for all the success thoughts that are vibrating through the ether of the atmosphere, and our mind becomes a powerful magnet to draw success thought.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Success", Human Life from Many Angles


About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

TOMMY LASORDA

The Artful Dodger

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There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men. They are much more wild than the wildest romances of chivalry and much more dull than the dullest religious tract. Moreover, the romances of chivalry were at least about chivalry; the religious tracts are about religion. But these things are about nothing; they are about what is called Success. On every bookstall, in every magazine, you may find works telling people how to succeed. They are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. To begin with, of course, there is no such thing as Success. Or, if you like to put it so, there is nothing that is not successful. That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey. Any live man has succeeded in living; any dead man may have succeeded in committing suicide. But, passing over the bad logic and bad philosophy in the phrase, we may take it, as these writers do, in the ordinary sense of success in obtaining money or worldly position. These writers profess to tell the ordinary man how he may succeed in his trade or speculation--how, if he is a builder, he may succeed as a builder; how, if he is a stockbroker, he may succeed as a stockbroker. They profess to show him how, if he is a grocer, he may become a sporting yachtsman; how, if he is a tenth-rate journalist, he may become a peer; and how, if he is a German Jew, he may become an Anglo-Saxon. This is a definite and business-like proposal, and I really think that the people who buy these books (if any people do buy them) have a moral, if not a legal, right to ask for their money back. Nobody would dare to publish a book about electricity which literally told one nothing about electricity; no one would dare to publish an article on botany which showed that the writer did not know which end of a plant grew in the earth. Yet our modern world is full of books about Success and successful people which literally contain no kind of idea, and scarcely any kind of verbal sense.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"The Fallacy of Success", All Things Considered

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