Success Quote by Lao Tzu

“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he…

— Walter Scott

“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great…

— Charlotte Brontë

“of light and life, thou Good Supreme!           O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself!           Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,           From…

— Benjamin Franklin

“He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven,…

— Ken Follett

“Perhaps as he was lying awake then, his life may have passed before him--his early hopeful struggles, his manly successes and prosperity, his downfall…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“he wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his…

— Adam Smith

“If anyone gets intoxicated with his knowledge when he looks beneath him, let him turn his eyes upward toward past ages, and he will…

— Michel de Montaigne

“He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal…

— Bob Sorge

“What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill…

— John Milton