Quotes about success
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Walter Savage Landor1775–1864Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech to the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), pp. 534-535
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 65
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et Pensées, #158
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 389 (tr. James Michie)
Robert Burns1759–1796Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum (1787–1796)It’s much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.
Bonoborn 1960CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)Every 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.Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail Adams1744–1818Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)Oftentimes a reverse has but made room for more prosperous fortune.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCI: On the Lesson to be Drawn From the Burning of LyonsWhat is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Think Big (1996), p. 261Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.
Dinesh D'Souzaborn 1961America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Lucretia (1846), Part II, Chapter XII
Joseph Campbell1904–1987The Power of Myth (book), p. 120
Gerald Ford1913–2006Address to Congress (12 August 1974)