Quotes about success
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Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Mein Kampf (1925)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858).Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 1
Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles); Glaucus recalling his father’s chargeWhen a man is trying to sell you something, don’t imagine he is that polite all the time.
E. W. Howe1853–1937Country Town Sayings (1911), p. 34.A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)Some succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Schoolboy notebook entry (1816), as quoted in Georges Pellissier, The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897)
