Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 157 (p. 89)There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats1795–1821Endymion (1818), PrefaceThe Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967“Washington Monument by Night” in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967Incidentals (1904)Action … is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part IOur chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860)Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 193Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 4, LXXXVIIIIf we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.12Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Ch. 22Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Morituri Salutamus (1875), St. 24.But to do for the world more than the world does for you—that is Success.
Henry Ford1863–1947Ford News (March 1926)One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Twelve-Pound Look (1910)The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
Peter Drucker1909–2005MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 455
