Quotes about Success

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

God does not look for success as the world understands it. He looks for faithfulness. "Who is that faithful servant?" Success is accomplishing faithfully the task allotted to you by the Lord.

The form of the crucified disarms all thinking aimed at success, for it is a denial of judgment. Neither the triumph of the successful, nor bitter hatred of the successful by those who fail, can finally cope with the world. Jesus is certainly no advocate for the successful in history, but neither does he lead the revolt of the failures against the successful.

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!