Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
- MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977), p. 121
John Irvingborn 1942The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
Jack LaLanne1914–2011Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15- LLaozi580–501 BCTao Te Ching, Ch. 64
Winston Churchill1874–1965As quoted in Richard M. Langworth (ed.), Churchill by Himself (2008)
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Savitri, Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIV: On gathering ideas, Line 13No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717), p.75; p.286One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller1880–1968Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia (8 July 1896)I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie1867–1934Autobiographical Notes, in Pierre Curie (1923)A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard Nixon1913–19941969 note to self, as quoted in Nixon (1987) by Stephen E. Ambrose, p. 284I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk1914–1995On receiving the Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement (23 April 1956)Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?MOMary Oliver1935–2019New and Selected Poems (1992)The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1924)But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Old Man and the Sea (1952)