Quotes
Quotes about Success
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends; For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way, nor called upon For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied To eminent assistants, but spiderlike Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note, The force of his own merit makes his way, A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king.
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
