I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success. On the other hand, don't count on it.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when they succeed.
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
The worst part of having success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The lesson that most of us o
Each person has the right to take part in the management of public affairs in his country, provided he has prior experience, a will to succeed, a college degree, influential parents, good looks, a resume, two 3X4 snapshots, and a good tax record.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
The amount of success is in inverse proportion to the effort in attaining success.
Success is the result of behavior that completely contradicts the usual expectations about the behavior of a successful person.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.
Success is overrated. Incompetence is what we should revere it marks us off from animals.
There are three ways a man can be ruined: women,gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will havefulfilled our potential and performed well.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success.