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Inspirational Quotes |
Success has killed more men than bullets. —Texas Guinan, nightclub
act
act
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima
donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the
nice things come out. —Barbara Walters, quoted in Newsweek (New
York), 1974
donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the
nice things come out. —Barbara Walters, quoted in Newsweek (New
York), 1974
How success changes the opinion of men! —Maria Edgeworth,The
Will, 1800
Will, 1800
… it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding. —Gertrude Stein,
Everybody’s Autobiography, 1937
Everybody’s Autobiography, 1937
If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their
senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes.
They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time
for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion—the relations
between one thing and another. Humanity goes …. —Virginia Woolf,
Three Guineas, 1938
senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes.
They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time
for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion—the relations
between one thing and another. Humanity goes …. —Virginia Woolf,
Three Guineas, 1938
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s
trium-phant Cause. —Phyllis McGinley, “How to Get Along with Men,” The
Province of the Heart, 1959
Province of the Heart, 1959
inspirational proverbs
EARTH has her usual delights—which can be met with six days out of
the seven. But here and there upon grey earth there exist, like the fly-ing of sunlight, celestial pleasures also
—and one of these is the heaven of success. —Enid Bagnold, The Happy Foreigner, 1920
EARTH has her usual delights—which can be met with six days out of
the seven. But here and there upon grey earth there exist, like the fly-ing of sunlight, celestial pleasures also
—and one of these is the heaven of success. —Enid Bagnold, The Happy Foreigner, 1920
… with a good fortune, a brilliant position, and a weak, indulgent
husband, what more could she desire? —Marguerite Blessington, “La
Marquise Le Villeroi to Miss Montressor,”The Victims of Society, 1837
husband, what more could she desire? —Marguerite Blessington, “La
Marquise Le Villeroi to Miss Montressor,”The Victims of Society, 1837
She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder
of success, wrong by wrong.
—Mae West, I’m No Angel,1933
of success, wrong by wrong.
—Mae West, I’m No Angel,1933
African Farm, 1883
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