success

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

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

Eighty percent of success is showing-up.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

—Barrymore, Ethel

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 'men of the hour', the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumphöon the level to which it belongs.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

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

—Smith, Rev Sydney

He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the NewTestament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.Work is x ; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

—Einstein, Albert

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

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

Remember there is no success without hard work.

—Sophocles

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.

—Addison,Joseph

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

He was a self-made manwho owed his lackof successto nobody.

—Heller,Joseph

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide.With failure comes failure.

—Heller,Joseph

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

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

—Kimball, Donald M

   When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

—Amis, Martin Louis

Success hath made me wanton.

—Jonson, Ben

  Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

Tell all theTruth but tell it slantö Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight TheTruth's superb surprise.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

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

—Miller, Arthur

No onecanguaranteesuccessinwar, butonlydeserveit.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

Success is a great deodorant.

—Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

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)

Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.

—Carman, (William) Bliss

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

—Hellman, Lillian Florence

   Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

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

Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.

—Baron

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

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

—Commoner, Barry

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

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

—Schiaparelli, Elsa