Quotes About Success

Life is a series of successful gestures...

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.

It's a bad town unless you're on top of it

A classic, suggested Anthony, is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion….

He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line - from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty - without this I am nothing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He would have considered entering the leather business because the intensity of the competition would have kept him from unhappiness.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning——

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Înving?torii aparÈ›in pr?zii.

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.