Quotes by British Authors - Page 16

As soon as you find the key to success somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Ouida
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.
Harold Loukes
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
Anita Roddick
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boulding
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
Samuel Butler
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Bertrand Russell
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."
Eliza Cook
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
Jacqueline Briskin
Whatever you are by nature keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Sydney Smith
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
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
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
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews
If at first you don't succeed try try try again.
W. E. Hickson
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Caroline L. Gascoigne
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Thomas Henry Huxley
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Charles Caleb Colton
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart a gentleness of the spirit.
Emma Thompson
The lesser evil is also evil.
Naomi Mitchison
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.
W Somerset Maugham
Until they are of the age to use the brain.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Joanna Field
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.
W. M. L. Jay
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
Have the courage of your desire.
George R. Gissing
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with you will not do much.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
What isn't tried won't work.
Claude McDonald
If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.
John B. Gough
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Sir Edward Appleton
To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.
Walter Pater
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.
David V. A. Ambrose
Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Sir Archibald Mclndoe
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
William Maxwell Aitken
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Many people have the ambition to succeed they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job there is no need to master themselves.
John Stevenson
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osier
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith