quotes about success

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. ~Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time


The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ~Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues


Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith. ~Author Unknown


The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer


While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor


It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy


It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ~Robert Benchley


"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry


You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. ~Author Unknown


I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields


The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. ~Edward McDonagh


If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big. ~Natalie Sequera


There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch


In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ~Steven Wright


Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg


Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ~Kahlil Gibran


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker