“The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt
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Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works
“Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Even success softens not the heart of the envious.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.”
“What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.”
“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
“The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.”
Source: Ten Plays by Euripides
“It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope
“The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
“Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story
“Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“There is no success without hardship.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.”