Quotes About Success

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

La vita è come il tennis vince chi serve meglio

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'Tomorrow, success or failure won't matter much: and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.

Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.

All's well that ends well.

William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.

If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...

if money go before, all ways do lie open.