"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
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"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."
"Success and money can really be quite blinding."
"Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind."
"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."
"The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales."
"There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience."
"My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means."
"Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists."
"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success."
"I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)"
"Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die."
"Success has made failures of many men."
"Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
"The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing."
"It is the success which makes great men."
"If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations—trust me, your expression is congratulations enough."
"'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been."
"They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes."
"I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round."