Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
Cicero107–43 BC“De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” Book V, Chapter 58
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 72
Charles Bukowski1920–1994Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
William Blake1757–1827Proverbs of Hell, Line 5
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XII
Robert Browning1812–1889Rabbi ben Ezra (1864), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Rabbi Ben Ezra.In context
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech given at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock, United States of America (3 October 1963); quoted in John F. Kennedy in Quotations: A Topical Dictionary, with Sources (2013), McFarland, entry 1729
Steve Jobs1955–2011At a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple – A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987), p. 157
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 30. Of Cannibals (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 184- Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 3
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands (1948)- Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XIII