Sunday, April 6, 2008 – Success!
Why be a man when you can be a success? ~ Bertolt Brecht
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~ Bruce Feirstein
Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. ~ Chet Atkins
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~ Lily Tomlin
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~ Coco Chanel
My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. ~ John C. Maxwell
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~ Woody Allen
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ~ Albert Einstein
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure. ~ Mark Twain
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. ~ Christopher Lasch
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable. ~ Fran Lebowitz
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. ~ M. H. Alderson
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. ~ Arthur McAuliff
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. ~ Quentin Crisp
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it. ~ W. C. Fields
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~ Donald A. Miller
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That – with the squalid interpretation put on the word success – is our national disease. ~ William James, 11 September 1906
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~ Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~ Logan Smith
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