Great Throughts Treasury

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Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines greatness.

Excellence | Greatness | Success | Wisdom | Excellence |

Louise A. Vernon

Failure changes to success when one acquires self-knowledge.

Character | Failure | Knowledge | Self | Self-knowledge | Success |

Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

When one has this intelligent self-love is commanded to love his neighbor as himself, what else is enjoined than that he shall do all in his power to commend to him the love of God? This is the worship of God, this is true religion, this right piety, this the service due to God only.

God | Love | Piety | Power | Religion | Right | Self | Self-love | Service | Wisdom | Worship | God |

Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier

Be more prudent for your children than perhaps you have been for yourself. When they, too, are parents they will imitate you, and each of you will have prepared happy generations who will transmit, together with your memory, the worship of your wisdom.

Children | Happy | Memory | Parents | Will | Wisdom | Worship |

Carl Victor de Bonstetten

To resist with success the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart; to keep these in parallel vigor, one must exercise, study, and love.

Age | Body | Heart | Love | Mind | Old age | Study | Success | Wisdom | Old |

Vera Mary Brittain

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any; method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

Important | Majority | Method | Reform | Success | Wisdom | Think |

Joyce Brothers

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Failure | Inevitable | Success | Wisdom | Failure | Learn |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The miser is the man who starves himself, and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Man | Order | Wealth | Wisdom | Worship |

Andrew Carnegie

Upon the sacredness of property civilization depends - the right of the laborer. There is very little success where there is little laughter.

Civilization | Laughter | Little | Property | Right | Success | Wisdom |

William R. Catton, Jr.

Viewed ecologically, the human saga is a tragic success story.

Story | Success | Wisdom |

Philarète Chasles, fully Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.

Opportunity | Success | Wisdom |

Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Success | Wisdom |

Mark Caine

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Man | People | Service | Success | Wisdom |

Andrew Carnegie

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.

Attention | Business | Competition | Good | Important | Man | Price | Service | Success | Wisdom | Work | Business |

Mark Caine

The success always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Change | Life | Life | Looks | Success | Wisdom |

Andrew Carnegie

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

Success | Wisdom |

Walter Chrysler, fully Walter Percy Chrysler

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see man get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

Enthusiasm | Excitement | Man | Success | Wisdom |