6 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on Success

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes on success

25. Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . .

71. Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

72. Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

78. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

85. The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense, one stays young.

89. There are no second acts in American lives.