Quotes About Success

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

I'm a very wealthy man.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.