Success Quotes
There are not many famous names on this page. Shakespeare leads, then Steve Maraboli and Emerson, and most of the authors appear only once. The quotes with real citations are more interesting than the motivational ones: James Richardson’s “Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for” (Vectors, 2001), or Jean Ingelow in 1886 observing that if one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” is credited to Churchill almost everywhere it appears. No source has been found. One of the places it shows up is a 2003 book, with none given. It is on the Courage page too, with the same flag.
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.