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'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 2)
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Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Source: Annales (XXV, 3)
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Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Author: Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
Source: Barbier de Seville (III, 7)
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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the
wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to
men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 11)
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For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXV, v. 6)
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the
bricks that others throw at him or her.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXV, v. 6)
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That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: The Inn Album (IV)
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We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound as they,
But the prizes were not ours.
Author: Richard Eugene Burton
Source: Song of the Unsuccessful
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They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Marino Faliero (act II, sc. 2)
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures
without making a mistake.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Marino Faliero (act II, sc. 2)
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These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Source: Letters
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Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: Richard III (act III, sc. 1)
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Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?
Author: William Cowper
Source: Expostulation (l. 350)
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One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is
going.
Author: Oliver Cromwell
Source: to M. Bellievre, found in "Memoirs" of Cardinal de Retz
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Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top,
Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
Author: Samuel Daniel
Source: Civil War (bk. II)
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Three men, together riding,
Can win new worlds at their will;
Resolute, ne'er dividing,
Lead, and be victors still.
Three can laugh and doom a king,
Three can make the planets sing.
Author: Mary Carolyn Davies
Source: Three, published in "American Magazine"
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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: Success, (ed. 1891)
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Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
Author: Alexandre Dumas pere
Source: Ange Pitou (vol. I, p. 72)
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Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
Author: Alexandre Dumas pere
Source: Ange Pitou (vol. I, p. 72)
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It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.
Author: Alexandre Dumas pere
Source: Ange Pitou (vol. I, p. 72)
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One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Fate
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Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: In Memoriam (l. 60)
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Of the American Scholar, in "Nature Addresses and Lectures"
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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Works (vol. VIII), in his "Journal" (1855) p, 528 (ed. 1912)
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi or •Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Author: George S. Patton
Source: None
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Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Author: Gerald Nachman
Source: None
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The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.
Author: Kazi Shams
Source: None
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The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".
Author: Nancy Barcus
Source: None
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Success is the child of audacity.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Author: Anthony Troloppe
Source: None
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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Author: M. W. Little
Source: None
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The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Author: Thomas R. Dewar
Source: None
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Author: John Foster Dulles
Source: None
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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Author: Arnold H. Glasow
Source: None
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Author: Dale Carnegie
Source: None
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Author: B. C. Forbes
Source: None
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Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Author: J. Paul Getty
Source: None
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Author: Charles Luckman
Source: None
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Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.
Author: James W. Pence
Source: None
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Author: Joe Paterno
Source: None
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
Author: John Chrusciel
Source: None
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Author: Anthony J. D'angelo
Source: None
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Source: None
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Success is when reality exceeds expectations.
Author: John D. Gerhart
Source: None
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