Success & Failure Quotes — page 11

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.

But the success of attempts in this way, must evidently depend much on the manner of conducting them.

His rash ambition had climbed a height where it was difficult to stand with firmness, and impossible to fall without instant destruction.

After all, dangers are everywhere; those who turn back because of dangers will never succeed in any life that we can imagine.

There is no need for disappointment at the failure of the model to give perfect agreement with observation; it has served its purpose, for it has distinguished what are the features of the actual which require new conditions for their …

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not …

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Mohammedanism has the only organization and pretty nearly the only ambition hostile to us that is left in India.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. Consistency was in itself distinction, and what was talent but the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be?

Murder rarely goes unpunished in Britain or France; here the reverse is true. The same survey reports many times as many burglaries in parts of America as in all England; and, whereas a very high percent of burglars in England are caught …

When the ties of kindred and of speech have force enough to bind together a powerful community, such a community may be able to defend its independence. If it fail, the pretension in itself has no claim on the consideration of the rest of …

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."

Mr. Darwin labours to show, and with no small success, that all true classification in zoology and botany is, in fact, genealogical, and that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, while …

Where ambition of place goes before fitness Of birth, contempt and disgrace follow.

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation by your victory.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an election where Communism is not a controversy between the two major parties.

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.