Quotes About Success

What ever came of the good scholars in the world? —In the hothouse of the school they do enjoy a short semblance of life, but only the more surely to sink back afterward into mediocrity and insignificance. The world has been bettered only by the bad scholars.

Living better is the best revenge

Burnham and Root became rich men. Not Pullman rich, not rich enough to be counted among the first rank of society alongside Potter Palmer and Philip Armour, or to have their wives' gowns described in the city's newspapers, but rich beyond anything either man had expected, enough so that each year Burnham bought a barrel of fine Madeira and aged it by shipping it twice around the world on slow freighters.

These were men, wrote Lincoln Steffens, "who will not have an office unless it is up where the air is cool and fresh, the outlook broad and beautiful, and where there is silence in the heart of business.

She eventually adopted the "gold collar" and married a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Wallace Riddle. She achieved her goal of creating a progressive boys' school as a memorial to her late father. She built it in Avon, Connecticut, and called it Avon Old Farms School, which exists today.

the Crippen case tended to be overlooked, however, because of an event a year and a half later that further sealed Marconi's success. In April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg

Sometimes you're on top and things are easy. Sometimes you're on the bottom. There's no need to let it worry you.

He looks on an education only as a magic formula, which should enable him to go through life without work.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

When it's right you can't remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelievable surprise. You can't believe you did it. When it's once right you never can do it again. You only do it once for each thing. And you're only allowed so many in your life.

The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose

Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?

I love your beard," Catherine said. "It's a great success. It looks so stiff and fierce and it's very soft and a great pleasure.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time.

For Whom the Bell Tolls was an immediate success. Hemingway wrote to his first wife, Hadley, that it was "selling like frozen daiquiris in hell."24 It has had tremendous impact and has been

You have youth, confidence and a job. You have everything.