Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Francis W. Newman

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
David Hilbert

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
Georg Baselitz

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
Constance Baker Motley

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
Auberon Herbert

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

The core of my personality consists of many selves.
Hans Bender