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SUCCESS quotes
It is not in mortals to command success, but we will do more, we will deserve it.
If you wish success in life, make per severance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it is as a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study, and practice.
Not what men do worthily, but what they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
Man cannot be satisfied with mere success. He is concerned with the terms upon which success comes to him. And very often the terms seem more important than the success.
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit—that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
Put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
He that would make sure of success should keep his passion cool, and his expectation low.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed, it betrays us.
He that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. 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.
Nothing can stand against success and yet keep fresh. Nations as well as individuals feel its vulgarizing power.
The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness and courtesy will carry a young man farther than mere smartness.
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
From above we can hear the crowd below growling and grumbling and taking it easy.
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.
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 everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned among the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
People judge, for the most part, by the success. Let a man show all the good conduct that is possible, if the event does not answer, ill fortune passes for a fault, and is justified by a very few persons.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two—common sense and perseverance.
Everybody finds out, sooner or later, that all success worth having is founded on Christian rules of conduct.
Somebody said it couldn't be done, but he with a chuckle replied that "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Had I miscarried, I had been a villain; for men judge actions always by events; but when we manage by a just foresight, success is prudence, and possession right.
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.
Success serves men as a pedestal; it makes them look larger, if reflection does not measure them.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
The eminently successful man should beware of the tendency of wealth to chill and isolate.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
How shall we pass most swiftly; from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
'Tis the golfer who cannot hole his putts that pays and pays and pays. 'Tis the golfer who holes them that plays and plays and plays.
Few things are impracticable in themselves, and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.
Nothing can seem foul to those that win.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
Nothing succeeds so well as success.
It is success that colors all in life: success makes fools admired, makes villains honest: all the proud virtue of this vaunting world fawns on success and power, howe'er acquired.
Mere success is one of the worst arguments in the world of a good cause, and the most improper to satisfy conscience: and yet in the issue it is the most successful of all other arguments, and does in a very odd, but effectual, way, satisfy the consciences of a great many men, by showing them their interest.
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Success at first doth many times undo men at last.
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
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