We never taste a perfect joy;
Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
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.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
Success is standing. Success is getting to the end and not losing my mind.
Return hate with love. Kill them with kindness and bury them with success.
There’s a pattern to everything. Success, failure, sanity, madness, tranquility, chaos.
The sort of feelings that red-ball success gives you, you don't get doing anything else.
In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; it obeyed the law of decreasing returns.