Success Quotes - Page 3

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

Donald A. Miller

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

If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.

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.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

Anonymous

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

The closer one gets to the top the more one finds there is no "top."

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Thomas à Kempis

The minute you think you've got it made disaster is just around the corner.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing you can't ever stop.

Pete Rose

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

Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel L. Reardon

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

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

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

François de La Rochefoucauld

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

Abraham Lincoln

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Anonymous

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.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

James Russell Lowell

Now that I'm here where am I?

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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."

We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Olive Schreiner

Most ball games are lost not won.

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Before you can win a game you have to not lose it.

Football games aren't won they're lost.

Success is a journey not a destination.

The journey is my home.

Muriel Rukeyser

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

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.

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were.

Natash Jasefowitz

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

I think that wherever your journey takes you there are new gods waiting there with divine patience-and laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Albert Schweitzer

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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?

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

Dr. Martha Friedman

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.

My mother said to me "If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

We only do well the things we like doing.

Colette

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

William A. Hulbert

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