High stations, tumult, but not bliss, create;
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.
Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top,
Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.