Quotes about success
561 quotes from 329 people
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
- MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977)
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 28.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter II: Boyhood DaysIt is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- ?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
Napoleon1769–1821Bonaparte, as quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1888) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 51.There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley1890–1957Where the Blue Begins (1922)Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
