Success & Failure Quotes — page 3

The 3 Requisites for Success - Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3 R's)

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love…

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

In every particular in which a picture constitutes a sight that is not identical with the sight represented, the picture will fail to communicate the represented object.

Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance...to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its …

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.

A Southern farm is beau idea of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slaves consume more than the master, of the coarse products, and is far happier, because although the concern may fail; he is always sure of a support.

He that would relish success to a good purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise, and is almost always …

I want to add that no matter how well you learn to play the political game, you won’t make a lastin’ success of it if you're a drinkin’ man. p. 77

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail".

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is …

At present I shall only give you my Opinion that tho' your Reasonings are subtle, and may prevail with some Readers, you will not succeed so as to change the general Sentiments of Mankind on that Subject, and the Consequence of printing …

If a soul lives long enough on the plane of sensuality or of ambition, she finds that Christ is worth less than nothing there.

Put conscience above both system and success.

Statesmanship […] must consider first the fortunes of the common people. No statesman has a right to risk these fortunes unless he be reasonably assured of success.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

The order was made and sent out, without any reflection, and without thinking of the Jews as a sect or race to themselves, but simply as persons who had successfully, I say successfully instead of persistently because I know there were a …

Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect …

The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Thus times do shift; each thing his turn does hold: New things succeed, as former things grow old.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.