Success

Famous quotes containing the word success:

    I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)