Success has made failures of many men.
Anonymous
Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be.
Anonymous
It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes.
Backus Jim
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Berlin Irving 1888-1989
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Boulding Kenneth
Nothing fails like success because we don't
learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965
Their Finest Hour
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Dickinson Emily 1830-1886
‘Success is counted sweetest'
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is
x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Eliot T. S. 1888-1965
The Family Reunion
Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Character is that which can do without success.
Ford Henry 1863-1947
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Goldwyn Sam 1882-1974
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Hugo Victor 1802-1885
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Leach Reggie
Success is not the result of spontaneous
combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Lehman Ernest 1920-
Sweet smell of success.
Lermontov Mikhail 1814-1841
A Hero of our Time
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Luckman Charles
Success is that old A B C - ability, breaks and courage.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy.
His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Nightingale Earl
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
Pater Walter 1839-1894
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Renard Jules 1864-1910
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
Rooney Mickey
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Rubinstein Artur 1888-1982
Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Samuel Lord 1870-1963
Book of Quotations
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Schweitzer Albert 1875-1965
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Seneca c.4 BC - AD 65
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
I am just going to pray for you at St Paul's,
but with no very lively hope of success.
Spencer Herbert 1820-1903
Education
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Virginibus Puerisque ‘El Dorado'
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Sweet Ben
The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.
Swope Herbert Bayard
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is try to please everybody.
Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Vauvenargues Marquis de 1715-1747
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Whitman Walt 1819-1892
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes
forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Success is a science. If you have the conditions, you get the result.
