Success famous quotes
05-17-2025
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
-- A. A. Milne -
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
-- Aaliyah -
I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.
-- Aaliyah -
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
-- Abdul Kalam -
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
-- Adam Horowitz -
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
-- Adam Smith -
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
-- Aeschylus -
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
-- Aeschylus -
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
-- Aesop -
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
-- Al Bernstein -
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
-- Al Franken -
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
-- Alan Greenspan -
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
-- Alan Kay -
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
-- Alan Price -
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
-- Albert Camus -
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
-- Albert Camus -
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
-- Albert Camus -
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein -
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
-- Albert Einstein -
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
-- Albert Einstein -
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
-- Albert Einstein -
The most important thing is to not stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein -
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-- Albert Einstein -
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-- Albert Einstein -
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
-- Albert Einstein -
Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
-- Albert Einstein -
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
-- Albert Einstein -
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
-- Alex Karras -
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
-- Alexander Crummell -
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.
-- Alexander Kotov -
The most positive men are the most credulous.
-- Alexander Pope -
The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
-- Alexander Pope -
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
-- Alfred Adler -
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
-- Alice Walker -
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
-- Alice Walker -
It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.
-- Alison Croggon -
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.
-- Althea Gibson -
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
-- Amelia Barr -
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
-- Amy Tan -
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
-- Amy Tan -
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
-- Anatoly Karpov -
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
-- Andre Gide -
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
-- Andre Malraux -
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
-- Andre Malraux -
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-- Andre Maurois -
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
-- Andre Sainte-Lague -
There is little success where there is little laughter.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
-- Andrew Mason
