Quotes about Success

When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.

You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.

The Northern press, as a whole, did not discourage these claims; a portion of it always magnified rebel success and belittled ours, while another portion, most sincerely earnest in their desire for the preservation of the Union and the overwhelming success of the Federal armies, would nevertheless generally express dissatisfaction with whatever victories were gained because they

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

I still wish Chelsea and all the players every success. I spent so many years connected to the club. One incident is not going to change that.