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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act I, sc. 2) Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.] - Marcellinus Ammianus (Marellinus Ammian or Ammianus Marcellinus), Annales (XXV, 3) There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding, and that which is lost by not trying. - Francis Bacon We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day. - Honore de Balzac You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.] - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais, Barbier de Seville (III, 7) Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Ingrid Bergman I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 11) For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. - Bible, Psalms (ch. LXXV, v. 6) What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. - Stephen Birmingham Successful minds work like a gimlet,--to a single point. - Christian Nestell Bovee Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. - Sarah Ban Breathnach A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. - David Brinkley A minute's success pays for the failure of years. - Robert Browning That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. - Robert Browning, A Grammarian's Funeral Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. - Robert Browning, The Inn Album (IV) The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success. - Edmund Burke We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours. - Richard Eugene Burton, Song of the Unsuccessful We'll succeed unless we quit. - George Walker Bush They never fail who die In a great cause. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Marino Faliero (act II, sc. 2) Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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