Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
Graham GreeneRead
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Interpretation
Success can lead to greater challenges and expectations than failure, affecting many aspects of life.
Graham Greene's quote emphasizes that while failure is often viewed negatively, success carries its own risks and pressures. The metaphor of ripples breaking over a wider coastline suggests that when one achieves success, its effects can spread broadly, bringing new challenges, scrutiny, and responsibilities that can be more daunting than the lessons learned from failure.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles, one might say, 'Remember, success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.'
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
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