There is no such thing as a self made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, has spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.
Too low they build who build below the skies.
In Fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.
The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.
Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan
Why be a man when you can be a success?
At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
If a first you don't succeed you're running about average.
First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.
Constant succeed shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Success is the child of audacity.
Behind every successful man stands an amazed woman.
If you become a success, you don't change everyone else does.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Support organizations can always prove success by showing service to someone not necessarily you.
Success keeping your mind awake and your desire sleep.
Seers and soothsayers read crystal balls to find the future. Less lucky men read junk with more success.
Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.
Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
Man errs as long as he strives.
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Success is the role earthly judge of right and wrong.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
We have seen too much success to have become obsessed with failure.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
We grow small trying to be great.
Stability is more essential to success than brilliance.
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.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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.
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, blame it on the teach.
The worst part of having success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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.
