SUCCESS QUOTES II
quotations about success
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 a helluva drug.
CARLOTA ZIMMERMAN
"Empathy in Emails", Huffington Post, July 10, 2017
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 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
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
The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne
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
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
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
MICHAEL PHELPS
Woman's Day, April 1, 2009
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
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
I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).
PO BRONSON
What Should I Do With My Life?
Deal maker, heart breaker
Numbers on a sheet
The wild confusion, the strange delusion
Success is not so sweet
SOUL ASYLUM
"Success Is Not So Sweet"
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
You can only be successful if you let your mind go beyond the boundaries that other people have set for themselves.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
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
Success doesn't come to you. You go to it.
MARVA COLLINS
attributed, Making a Difference in Your World
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
They must try who would succeed.
THEOCRITUS
"The Two Ladies of Syracuse"
Success is a planned outcome, not an accident. Success and mediocrity are both absolutely predictable because they follow the natural and immutable law of sowing and reaping. Simply stated, if you want to reap more rewards, you must sow more.
TOMMY NEWBERRY
Success Is Not an Accident