Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
Orison Swett Marden
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
Rachel Kushner
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
Gary Herbert
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
Naveen Jain
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You can’t become a saint by taking dope, stealing your friends’ typewriters, giving girls chancres, not supporting your wife and children, and then reading St. John of the Cross. All of that, when it’s happened before, has typified the collapse of civilization … and today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim.
Kenneth Rexroth
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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Carlisle Floyd
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Alvin Ailey
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana Alexander
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher