Quotes by American Authors - Page 43

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.
Bessie A. Stanley
If you have a good name if you are right more often than you are wrong if your children respect you if your grandchildren are glad to see you if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.
Ann Landers
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boulding
I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Prince
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
Robert Fulghum
There must be more to life than having everything!
Maurice Sendak
Oddly enough success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.
Grant Tinker
Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Irving Kristol
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing you can't ever stop.
Pete Rose
The minute you think you've got it made disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller
If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Ambrose Bierce
Success has killed more men than bullets.
Texas Guinan
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
Success has ruined many a man.
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
Phyllis McGinley
Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Walt Whitman
Now that I'm here where am I?
Janis Joplin
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
James Russell Lowell
Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
William James
With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Robert R. Updegraff
I think that wherever your journey takes you there are new gods waiting there with divine patience-and laughter.
Susan M. Watkins
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.
Max Lerner
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
Mary Astor
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser
Success is a journey not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
Football games aren't won they're lost.
Fielding Yost
Before you can win a game you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll
Most ball games are lost not won.
Casey Stengel
We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.
Faith Popcorn
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
Jacqueline Briskin
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.
Richard Bach
I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
William A. Hulbert
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
Abraham Maslow
All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
Harrison Ford
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
If you've had a good time playing the game you're a winner even if you lose.
Malcolm Forbes
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry Kissinger
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden