Dynamics
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment ? (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. (Lord Chesterfield)
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of. (Charles Dudley)
Achievement, n. The death of endeavour and the birth of disgust. (Ambrose Bierce)
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. (Max Beerbohm)
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. (John Keats)
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. (Walter Lippmann)
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. (Phyllis McGinley)