Walter Lippmann Quotes

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Some people will never change.

We will reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

Nobody wants to change.