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One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. - Oliver Cromwell, to M. Bellievre, found in "Memoirs" of Cardinal de Retz Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up. - Samuel Daniel, Civil War (bk. II) Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, ne'er dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing. - Mary Carolyn Davies, Three, published in "American Magazine" To know how to wait is the great secret of success. - Joseph Marie De Maistre Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. - Demosthenes Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson, Success, (ed. 1891) As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation. - Sydney Thompson Dobell The greater part performed achieves the less. - John Dryden Those who are prosperously unjust are entitled to panegyric, but afflicted virtue is stabbed with reproaches. - John Dryden Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.] - Alexandre Dumas pere, Ange Pitou (vol. I, p. 72) Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. - Jimmy Durante Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Thomas Alva Edison It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. - Albert Einstein Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Journal, October 25, 1867 One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, In Memoriam (l. 60) If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Of the American Scholar, in "Nature Addresses and Lectures" If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works (vol. VIII), in his "Journal" (1855) p, 528 (ed. 1912) Displaying page 3 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9
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