Subject: Success (Page 9)

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure does.


Failure Success

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist
Life Success

Why should I have become elevated to a position of first-page importance merely because I am somewhat more dexterous than most in manipulating a contrivance of catgut and wood which is commonly called a tennis racquet?

first American female professional tennis player
Sports Success

You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat.

Murphy’s Laws Success

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

(1969 – ) American actress, film director & producer
Life Success

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.

Food/Drink Money Success

If at first you don’t succeed, blame your parents.

writer
Family Parents Success

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports Success

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

(1933 – 1998) comedian & actor
Characteristics Success

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.

Murphy’s Laws Success

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor
Communication Speech Success

[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director
Children Family Parents Success

Nobody loves a winner who wins all the time.

Success

Nobody notices when things go right.

Murphy’s Laws People Success

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Friends People Relationships Success Young

I have enemies I’ve never met – that’s fame.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Success

Jack Benny's ability on the violin was legendary; everybody knew he had none.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment Music Success Things

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Failure Success

If at first you don’t succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Success

After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Success

The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and to the need for success.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success