Friday 3 February 2012

Quotes on Success IV

  1. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
  2. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
  3. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
  4. About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
  5. Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
  6. It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.
  7. Success is a hidden jewel, and is found but by a few.
  8. Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.
  9. Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
  10. If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
  11. The people who succeed the most are the people who have failed the most, because they are people who have tried the most.

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