A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
Road to success is always under construction.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Most people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori, Italian educator (1870-1952)
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.