#success

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured. ↗

— Andy Stern

#correlation #how #i #issue #labor

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop. ↗

— Connie Stevens

#hard #she #start #stop #successful

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#apart #called #fame #gods #him

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#again #attitude #experience #failure #get

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice. ↗

— John Stott

#authority #choice #dare #earth #gives

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#i #me #satisfying #successful #very

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too. ↗

— Anna Sui

#clothes #distributors #effect #frivolous #i

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#halting #insignificant #most #painful #people