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Art is a jealous mistress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Category: Success and Fame

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1. "Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence."

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"


2. "Planning lies with men; success lies with Heaven."

Chinese proverb


3. "The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

Gail Sheehy

Other categories: Authority, Government


4. "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."

Graham Greene

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


5. "Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, "Aeneid"

Other categories: Bravery and Fear


6. "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Vince Lombardi


7. "To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

Other categories: Various


8. "The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Other categories: Life and Death


9. "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Thomas Gray, "Poetical Works"

Other categories: Life and Death


10. "Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "

W.H. Auden

Other categories: Art and Culture


11. "There’s no point in success if you don’t let it go to your head. That’s what it’s for."

John Otway


12. "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Other categories: Youth and Age


13. "The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries."

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


14. "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. Failure makes people cruel and bitter."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human


15. "Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Pablo Picasso

Other categories: Art and Culture


16. "The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."

Kurt Vonnegut

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy


17. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


18. "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Jules Renard

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Envy


19. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Andrew Carnegie

Other categories: Work and Laziness


20. "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

Brian Tracy

Other categories: Happiness -:- Optimism and Hope


21. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Andrew Carnegie

Other categories: Happiness


22. "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Benjamin Disraeli

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance


23. "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Napoleon Hill

Other categories: Dreams and Desires


24. "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Jim Rohn

Other categories: Work and Laziness


25. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Maya Angelou


26. "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith

Other categories: Nature and Animals


27. "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Other categories: Various


28. "The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Katherine Hepburn

Other categories: Various


29. "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Bravery and Fear


30. "Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."

John C. Calhoun

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


31. "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."

Johnny Cash

Other categories: Richness and Money


32. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Alva Edison

Other categories: Work and Laziness


33. "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

Erma Bombeck


34. "The distinction between a manager and a leader is as broad as the distance between control and inspiration."

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Other categories: Authority, Government


35. "Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down."

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Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


36. "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

Logan Pearsall Smith

Other categories: Life and Death


37. "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

Napoleon Hill


38. "Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"

Marlon Brando

Other categories: Art and Culture


39. "Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important."

John Morley


40. "Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."

Doris Lessing


41. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Henry David Thoreau


42. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Joyce Brothers


43. "Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end."

Abraham Maslow

Other categories: Bravery and Fear


44. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Optimism and Hope


45. "Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

William Cullen Bryant


46. "My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


47. "Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known; for others, it depends on never being found out."

Ashleigh Brilliant


48. "Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."

Truman Capote


49. "Failure is success if we learn from it."

Malcolm Forbes

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


50. "It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail."

Genghis Khan

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

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