3,028 quotes
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Journalist · Polish · b. 1932
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter
Activist · English · 1844 – 1929
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie
Writer · American · 1888 – 1955
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers
Psychologist · American · b. 1928
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
Writer · English · 1819 – 1900
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist · Russian · 1821 – 1881
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
George S. Patton
Soldier · American · 1885 – 1945
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
David Sarnoff
Inventor · American · 1891 – 1971
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
Howard Schultz
Businessman · American · b. 1953
Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.
John Linder
Politician · American · b. 1942
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
Mikhail Saakashvili
Statesman · Georgian · b. 1967
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
Minna Antrim
Writer · American
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes
Poet · Greek
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
Kevyn Aucoin
Artist · American · 1962 – 2002
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
Philosopher · French · 1689 – 1755
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Inventor · American · 1895 – 1983
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki
Author · American · b. 1947
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Robert Baden-Powell
Soldier · English · 1857 – 1941
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Paul Wellstone
Politician · American · 1944 – 2002
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
President · American · 1858 – 1919
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Clergyman · American
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Zig Ziglar
Author · American · b. 1926
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author · American · 1896 – 1940
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
Writer · American · 1848 – 1892
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda
Novelist · English
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
Adam Schiff
Politician · American · b. 1960
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child
Activist · American
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott
Novelist · Scottish · 1771 – 1832
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
Paula Danziger
Author · American · 1944 – 2004
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jim Rohn
Businessman · American
The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
John Engler
Politician · American · b. 1948
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
Erno Rubik
Inventor · Hungarian · b. 1944
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone
Businessman · American · 1902 – 2002
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President · American · 1890 – 1969
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Sumner Redstone
Businesman · American · b. 1923
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Tertullian
Author · Roman
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
Bob Riley
Politician · American
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Bill Veeck
Businessman · American · 1914 – 1986
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
David O. Selznick
Producer · American · 1902 – 1965
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director · English · 1899 – 1980
I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Novelist · American · b. 1949
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Publisher · American
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson
Cartoonist · American · b. 1958
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Vaclav Havel
Leader · Czechoslovakian · b. 1936