Otto Weininger Quotes

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.