Quotings on success

If you persevere, you can achieve anything.

Theocritus (310-250 BC)

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Bible: St. Mark

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail.

Lady Macbeth in Macbeth; William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.

Augustus Hare (1792-1834

’Tis better to have fought and lost

Than never to have fought at all

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne’er succeed

Emily Dickinson (1830-86)

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

Dwight Morrow (1873-1931)

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet ’em on your way down.

Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

F E Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930)

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Peter Ustinov (1921-)

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play, and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)