Everybody loves and desires success, but they dislike and…

“I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Variant: The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

“The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

“Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1920s, What I Believe (1925)

““Success Is Not The Key To Happiness, Happiness Is The Key To Success; If You Love What You Are Doing, You Will Be Successful”
— Alireza Kohany”

Alireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur

Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/What_Is_E_Commerce/PkPhDwAAQBAJ

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Originally from Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958); often attributed to Cosby, he actually cites this as a sound advice he once read elsewhere, in "Dr. Bill Cosby" in Ebony, Vol. 32, No. 8 (June 1977), p. 136
Misattributed

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 52

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Everybody loves and desires success, but they dislike and are envious of successful people.”

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