SUCCESS QUOTES VI

quotations about success


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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

WALTER LIPPMANN
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A Preface to Politics


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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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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

VANESSA REDGRAVE

attributed, Good-bye Baby and Amen

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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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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Q, August, 1992

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

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation

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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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Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, February 1930


All successful men have agreed in one thing--they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing--characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one. The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Conduct of Life

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Success is ever a bad tree when evil is the root.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Success is never assured, but having some challenges is almost always assured. Preparation to deal with those situations can reduce the hurdles and increase the prospects for success.

MARK KAPLAN

"Dealing with the certainty of change", New Hampshire Union Leader, July 9, 2017


Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

CHARLES BUXTON

Notes of Thought

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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"


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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You create everything that happens to you.... If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life--that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles