Quotes About Success

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Si gano, soy un genio. Si pierdo, estoy loco. Así es como se escribe la historia.

Ambition had a price and that price was friendship.

Si je gagne, je suis un génie, si je perd, je suis fou.

Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Wenn ich gewinne, wird man sagen, ich sei ein Genie, wenn ich verliere, wird es heißen, ich sei übergeschnappt. So wird Geschichte geschrieben.

Justin Timber-guy

Myishi will kick Phonetix's butt next quarter.

Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.

Lucky is the man who dies at work.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Be careful to leave your sons [and daughters] well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. [in brackets: though I have only sons, I am--of course--someone's daughter]

When you have him as your leader, and conform your will and desire to his, what fear of failure can you have?

If you have nothing better to do than praise me for it, then my speech was a failure.

Nothing great is created in a flash.

None of those who have been raised to a loftier height by riches and honours is really great.

If you worked hard, believed in what you did, and stayed the course, then success and recognition would follow.

Ironically, as Illinois Sen. Richard Yates pointed out, opponents of expansionism employed arguments extremely reminiscent of proslavery ideology, while its supporters upheld the principle that nonwhites could be successfully incorporated into the body politic. (No people, quipped Nevada Sen. James W. Nye, were "too degraded" for citizenship: "We have New Jersey, and all things considered, it has proven a success.")

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

Sering dikatakan orang bahwa bakat memberi banyak kesempatan untuk maju. Namun semangat besarlah yang kerap memberi kesempatan, dan bahkan memberi banyak bakat.

The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice.

There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.