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Success Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
- People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against…
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take…
- If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
- I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,…
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other…
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
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash