Failure makes people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.