Quotes About Success

Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.

We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.

Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.

Wine, for serious drunks, enjoys only a limited success. There is, concerning inebriation, black magic and white magic; wine is only white magic.

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

à des résultats magnifiques par des voies étroites

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.

Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are about to do. Who knows? We may succeed.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think you great.

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness, — places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience, — and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

We live in a squalid society. Success: this is the message seeping, drop by drop, down from the overriding corruption.

A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won't be ten cartridges in the barricade.

For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.

Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

These two products of a man's labor often come together. At the very moment when you become rich you are paralyzed. That rounds off your life.

Soit dit en passant, c'est une chose assez hideuse que le succès. Sa fausse ressemblance avec le mérite trompe les hommes.

We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

Em meio a sua formidável felicidade, era lamentável, como todo ignorante que triunfa.

Ma non basta essere cattivi, per prosperare.

El éxito es algo bastante repulsivo. El falso parecido que tiene con el mérito engaña a los hombres.

Every profession has its aspirants who make up the cortège of those who are at the summit.