Barbarians Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

— Edward Dowden

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

— Edward Dowden

“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd,…

— Victor Hugo

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it,…

— Samuel Smiles

“Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many…

— Bryant McGill

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail!

— Liu Bei

Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the…

— Sidney Greenberg

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find…

— William Hazlitt

By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement.…

— Norman Vincent Peale

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld