Evan Esar Quotes

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

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• Democrats hate success.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Democrats

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Success
  • Here
  • Educated

• Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Earth
  • Sports
  • Face

• I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Lost

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Real
  • Serious
  • Face

• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Important
  • Success
  • Attitude

• It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Career
  • Success
  • Destroyed

• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Great
  • Success
  • Mistake

• I believe that every employee, from the CEO suite to the factory floor, contributes to a business’ success, so everybody should share in the rewards – especially those putting in long hours for little pay.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Business

• If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Success

• People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Mind
  • Success

• But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Time
  • Success

• I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

  

  Charles J. Givens
  • Life
  • Success

• He hath no leisure who useth it not.

  

  George Herbert

• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  

  Lisa See
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

  

  Mark Harmon
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Mirror

• I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Breakfast

• If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Success
  • Face
  • Climb