“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”

Po Bronson (1964) American writer

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

Marlon Brando (1924–2004) American screen and stage actor

“The true dynamic of a successful friendship and relationship is when the respect is mutual and reciprocal.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

Дуг Ларсон (1926)

“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist