Success & Failure Quotes — page 15

It is scarcely likely that men on fire with success, whether military or commercial, will be patient of the restraints of religion.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Civilisation is a conspiracy. What value would your police be if every criminal could find a sanctuary across the Channel, or your law courts, if no other tribunal recognised their decisions? Modern life is the silent compact of …

A life of action, if it is to be useful, must be a life of compromise. But speculation admits of no compromise. A public-man is often under the necessity of consenting to measures which he dislikes, lest he should endanger the success of …

Burnside wanted to put his colored division in front, and I believe if he had done so it would have been a success

can scarcely fail to introduce

I yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy.

O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Let others drink thee freely, and desire Thee and their lips espous'd, while I admire And love thee, but not taste thee. Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadult'rate strength: what's done by me Hereafter shall smell …

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Democracy can rise to great heights; it can also sink to great depths. It is for us so to conduct ourselves, and so to educate our own people, that we may achieve the heights and avoid the depths.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of …

Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or …

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst—yea—drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the …

I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, …

Success does not lie entirely in the hands of any one of us.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.