Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address on the 18th anniversary of his coronation (2 November 1948)
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1925–1930- SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
Kevin Hartborn 1979His reply when asked if there is a chance audience won’t accept him in something like the movie True Story during an interview with The New York Times (23 November 2021)
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (11 March 1888)
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 89But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Old Man and the Sea (1952)“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002), Said while making FitzcarraldoEach man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 193Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill1883–1970A maxim of Hill’s, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.
Edmund Hillary1919–2008Sir Edmund Hillary: King Of The WorldThe higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 330.
