I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.
The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing, they become fanatics about conservatism.
Success is a great healer.
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.
Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.
Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love affair.
There is always room at the top.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.
