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Success Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where…
- Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
- I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
- ...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
- Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
- He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many…
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- 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.
- A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.
- Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
- Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; forit supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics…
More Success Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach