Quotes by Success Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. Alice Foote MacDougall erratic success may Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success. Alice Foote MacDougall business struggle success Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate. Alice Foote MacDougall trust business success Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely kindness success ... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely success heart You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely success friendship In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal. Alice Foote MacDougall angel faith success A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. Alice Stone Blackwell women pain success Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. Alice Walker success being-happy happiness We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. Alice Walker perseverance success happiness It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness. Alison Croggon differences light success I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me. Althea Gibson success inspiring happiness Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Ambrose Bierce achievement success death A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce failure success inspiring Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce thought-provoking sin success Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce perseverance congratulations success A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa Ambrose Bierce success long art WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. Ambrose Bierce wall success heaven Congratulations is the civility of envy. Ambrose Bierce envy congratulations success PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull. Ambrose Bierce congratulations success two «345678910111213»