Quotes by Authors - Page 53

The minute you think you've got it made disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno
Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.
Thomas à Kempis
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Liv Ullmann
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Anonymous
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Ambrose Bierce
Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
Phyllis McGinley
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some right and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
Oriana Fallaci
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Anonymous
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
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
Oriana Fallaci
The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want it won't satisfy.
Anonymous
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
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
We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were.
Natash Jasefowitz
It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is a journey not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.
Faith Popcorn
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
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
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
Colette
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
My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.
Anonymous
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
B.C. Forbes
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.
Joseph Ross
Survival is triumph enough.
Harry Crews
It takes time to be a success.
Anonymous
A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
Anonymous
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
Lisa M. Amos
There's such a thin line between winning and losing.
John R. Tunis
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.
Shelley Long
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews
Once I decide to do something I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock you jump over it walk around it crawl under it.
Kitty Kelley
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
B.C. Forbes
I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.
Jerry Delia Femina
Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.
William A. Ward