Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it. 722
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. 641
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. 602
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. 1.43K
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. 632
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play. 674
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! 2.6K
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. 689
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. 687
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. 770
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. 2.78K
An actor’s popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. 1.38K
