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'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Eighty percent of success is showing-up.
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.
Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.
No onecanguaranteesuccessinwar, butonlydeserveit.
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Tell all theTruth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight TheTruth's superb surprise.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.Work is x ; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the NewTestament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.
The 'men of the hour', the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumphon the level to which it belongs.
Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.
He was a self-made manwho owed his lackof successto nobody.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide.With failure comes failure.
That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success 442 and miscarriage are empty sounds.
Success hath made me wanton.
There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.
No foreign policy, no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a fewand carried in the heart of none.
Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you goahead and doitand youargueabout whatto doabout it onlyafter you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
Den stolzen Sieger stu« rzt sein eignes Glu« ck. The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
I am just going to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very lively hope of success.
Remember there is no success without hard work.
To travel hopefully is a better thing thantoarrive, and the true success is to labour.
Success is a great deodorant.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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