Quotes
Quotes about Success
Didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?
And happy always was it for that son
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
If it were done when 't is done, then 't were well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We 'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips.
Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.
'T is not in mortals to command success,
But we 'll do more, Sempronius,--we 'll deserve it.
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,--
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race the following spring supplies:
They fall successive, and successive rise.
'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.
In the full tide of successful experiment.
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
Born for success he seemed,
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,--a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place.
I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.... I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
Success is man's god.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
