Quotes About Success

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Victory brings us level with Heaven.

Scale is not a destination. Don't get caught up in the narrative telling you to grow if growth isn't what you really want. Remember, big isn't the same as great.

According to Gerber, to run a successful business, business owners need to balance three personalities: the technician the manager the entrepreneur.

To laugh often and love much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.1

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven.

El genio se compone del dos por ciento de talento y del noventa y ocho por ciento de perseverante aplicación

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

In a capitalist society one can hold on to one's fortune only if one perpetually acquires it anew by investing it wisely.

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the "American way of life.

Liberalism has no admiration to spare for the heroic grandiosity of Marxism's professional revolutionaries, who stake the lives of thousands and destroy values which the labour of decades and centuries has created. Here the economic principle holds good: Liberalism wants success at the smallest price.