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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
(Simon Hoggart (b. 1946), British journalist. America: A User's Guide, ch. 1 (1990).)
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
(Elias Canetti (b. 1905), Austrian novelist, philosopher. "1974," The Secret Heart Of The Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973-1985 (1991).)
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... the big courageous acts of life are those one never hears of and only suspects from having been through like experience. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.
(Alice Foote MacDougall (1867-1945), U.S. businesswoman. The Autobiography of a Business Woman, ch. 7 (1928).)
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The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 240, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Man in Society," aphorism 300, "The Double Nature of Equality," (1878).)
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Tell all the truth but tell it slant (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that ... the ghosts you chase you never catch.
(John Malkovich (b. 1953), U.S. stage and screen actor. Independent on Sunday (London, April 5, 1992).
On acting in the theater.)
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Success
Self-esteem = --------- Pretensions
(William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1890).)
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The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 240, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Man in Society," aphorism 300, "The Double Nature of Equality," (1878).)
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