Art is a jealous mistress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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