What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we areonly sitting on our own bottom.
Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented. Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
Support organizations can always prove success by showing service to someone ... not necessarily you.
Seers and soothsayers read crystal balls to find the future. Less lucky men read junk with more success.
Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
There ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexibl eof passions.
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.