Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Success has always been a great liar.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Success is difficult to define.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

Huge success is very hard to come by.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

The only way we can win is if we leave before the job is...done.

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.