TOP QUOTES ON SUCCESS

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm


My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ~Cary Grant


To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis


Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown


My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic


No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838


Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~Samuel Johnson


Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." ~Maya Angelou


Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~Author Unknown


Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906


Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
~Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 1859


...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. ~Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!", Leaves of Grass


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain


Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus


There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin


I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke


Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome


The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau


Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown


Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. ~Gioacchino Rossini


We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock