Success Quotes
Quotes about Success
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- “We wish to render the now almost forgotten Hegel what is due to him as the forerunner of Darwin. Mendelssohn, in a dispu...” — Charles Darwin
- “Life in its entirety must be purified by the flame of achievement. The great Buddha, who preordained Maitreya, prescribe...” — Gautama Buddha
- “We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “What the inventive genius of mankind has bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have made human life care free...” — Albert Einstein
- “To be taken without consent from my home and friends; to lose my liberty; to undergo all those assaults on my personalit...” — C. S. Lewis
- “But we should get the whole Victorian perspective wrong, in my opinion at least, if we did not see that Dickens was prim...” — Charles Dickens
- “But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generati...” — Nikola Tesla
- “In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure...” — Confucius
- “I thank you, in common with all others, who have thought fit, by their votes, to indorse the Republican cause. I rejoice...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “The powers possessed by Buddha are not miraculous, because a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature. The supreme p...” — Gautama Buddha
- “Nietzsche sought a new sort of aristocracy of super- or above-men, which would be the ultimate goal of civilized existen...” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his...” — Franz Kafka
- “Would that all excellent books were foundlings, without father or mother, that so it might be, we could glorify them, wi...” — Herman Melville
- “He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood - a son and a husband, a father and a friend. And that...” — Nelson Mandela
- “Once he called upon General McClellan, and the President went over to the General's house - a process which I assure you...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the loco...” — Sigmund Freud
- “For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds labouring in their vocations, whether they were merely going o...” — C. S. Lewis
- “Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to h...” — Carl Sagan
- “It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not b...” — Herman Melville
- “Mahatma Gandhi is the greatest living exponent of successful pacifism. He has demonstrated that pacifism in action can b...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “They killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on. Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it; ...” — Toni Morrison
- “He [the devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs-pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lo...” — C. S. Lewis
- “We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long eno...” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “In estimating worldly values the Jew is not shallow, but deep. With precocious wisdom he found out in the morning of tim...” — Mark Twain
- “To those who inquire as to the purpose of mathematics, the usual answer will be that it facilitates the making of machin...” — Bertrand Russell
- “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood. I had a very happy childhood. I ...” — Agatha Christie
- “The individual itself as a struggle between parts (for food, space, etc.): its evolution tied to the victory or predomin...” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “[W]hen Karl Marx, the most consistent translator of the altruist morality into practical action and political theory, ad...” — Karl Marx
- “Development of Western Science is based on two great achievements, the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclid...” — Albert Einstein
- “Abraham Lincoln, the country's first Republican president, led the Union to victory in the Civil War and put slavery on ...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in wh...” — John Stuart Mill
- “You are assuming that I wish to be popular. I don't care. I do care that millions of people may die needlessly for an es...” — Elon Musk
- “Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your vi...” — Winston Churchill
- “God bless you all. This is your victory! [crowd: "No-it is yours."] It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every l...” — Winston Churchill
- “Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of thei...” — Jane Austen
- “Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a ...” — Bertrand Russell
- “Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He th...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Also quoted as, "Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake." in Memories of a Psycho-analyst, ch.9 (1959) by Erne...” — Sigmund Freud
- “We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonge...” — Winston Churchill
- “The art of concluding from experience and observation consists in evaluating probabilities, in estimating if they are hi...” — Is Founded On Errors In This Type Of Calculation.
- “The fundamental teachings of Gautama, as it is now being made plain to us by study of original sources, is clear and sim...” — Gautama Buddha
- “In the same period ex-President Theodore Roosevelt loudly recalled his successful amputation of land from Colombia: "I t...” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “I say without fear of my figures being successfully challenged that India today is more illiterate than it was before a ...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not st...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Mother Teresa was a true patriot. A great Albanian. She showed the world how to help the poor and devoted her life to th...” — Mother Teresa
- “The Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while,...” — Gautama Buddha
- “If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life...” — Stephen Hawking
- “This Jonah of revolution, this general of unbroken disasters was the mascot of the bourgeoisie in each wave of the devel...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Albert Einstein, who was admired as almost superhuman and whose fate it was to become one of the most famous people on t...” — Albert Einstein
- “Believing that these propositions, and the [conclusions] I draw from them can not be successfully controverted, I, for t...” — Abraham Lincoln