That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
   Julian. Toys in the Attic, act1.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

-James,William
  The Will to Believe.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success 442 and miscarriage are empty sounds.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

Success hath made me wanton.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act 3, sc.1.

There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.

-Kimball, Donald M
  In US A  Today, 21  Apr.

No foreign policy, no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a fewand carried in the heart of none.

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
  Speech to International Platform  Association, 2  Aug.

Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
   Address at Mills College. Collected as'A Left-Handed Commencement  Address' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
  In the Baltimore Evening Sun, 9 Dec.

   Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

-Miller, Arthur
  Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you goahead and doitand youargueabout whatto doabout it onlyafter you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

-Oppenheimer,J(ulius) Robert
  'In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer', USAEC transcript of hearing before Personnel Security Board.

   Den stolzen Sieger stu«  rzt sein eignes Glu«  ck. The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

-Schiaparelli, Elsa
DieJungfrau von Orle¤  ans, act1, sc.5.

I am just going to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very lively hope of success.

-Smith, Rev Sydney
Quoted in H PearsonThe Smith of Smiths, (1934), ch.10.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

-Sophocles
Electra, 945 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

To travel hopefully is a better thing thantoarrive, and the true success is to labour.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'El Dorado'.

Success is a great deodorant.

-Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond
  ABC TV broadcast, 6 Apr.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Joan of Arc, bk.1, ch.8.

The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  Voss, ch.10.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Attributed comment after the poor reception of Lady Windermere's Fan.