Quotes About Success

Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Stoop to conquer.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil.

The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.

One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end. ~Dr. Barron

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

She could be attractive when she wanted to be but life had taught her that efficiency and competence often paid better results and avoided painful complications.

But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.