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.
Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
For, without cruelty, only a limited success is ever possible in opera.
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.