“Success doesn’t always bring growth, but personal growth will always add to our success.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
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“Success always leaves footprints.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
“The road to success is always under construction”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
“Success always demands a greater effort.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: Their Finest Hour
Mullah Dadullah (1966–2007) Afghan Taliban commander
Dadullah's 'last interview' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxFHt7Igsk <br class="br">Final words before death
“Success has always been a great liar”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 88
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
As quoted in The Lost Art of General Management (2004) by Rob Waite, p. 96
Context: Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
Stephen Decatur (1779–1820) United States Navy officer
Toast at a dinner in Norfolk, Virginia (April 1816) reported in Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore, Maryland) 20 April 1816; as cited in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (2010), Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, p. 70
Variant: Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
[emphasis added] This widely quoted version is attributed in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur: A Commodore in the Navy of the United States (1846), C. C. Little and J. Brown, p. 443.
This statement produced the famous slogan "My country, right or wrong!" which itself produced famous responses by:
Carl Schurz "...if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
Schurz, Carl, remarks in the Senate, February 29, 1872, The Congressional Globe, vol. 45, p. 1287. See Wikisource for the complete speech.
G. K. Chesterton "'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'." -- A Defence of Patriotism
Variant: Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!
