A Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Arnold J. Toynbee
British - Historian
April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975

Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

Nothing fails like success.

Lincoln Steffens

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all have faults in life. Mine is that I sometimes rely on my athletic ability a little too much. When I'm having success and things are going good, that's the lull that I fall into. It's my worst enemy.

Jason Sehorn

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

Robin Sharma

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

Will Rogers

I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.

Thalia

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

Robert Penn Warren

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream.

James Patterson

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Alan Watts

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

Charles Spurgeon

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

Malcolm Gladwell

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

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