Success Quotes
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
God doesn't require you to succeed, he only requires that you try.
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.
I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Many eloquent men fail utterly; and they are not, as a class, generally successful.
Of course I would have preferred success; but failing in that, I have no regrets for having rejected all advice to the contrary, and resolutely made the struggle.
I have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.
I could not raise ten thousand dollars if it would save me from the fate of John Brown. Nor have my friends, so far as I know, yet reached the point of staking any money on my chances of success.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
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