Achievement Quotes

2338 Achievement quotes by 1374 unique authors

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is. — Charles Dudley Warner
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. — Baron de Montesquieu
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so… — Charles Caleb Colton
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Success causes us to be more praised than known. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good. — Henry Fielding
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton
Even success softens not the heart of the envious. — Pindar
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. — Saint Augustine
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. — Nancy Astor
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity. — Paul Tillich
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. — James Stockdale
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity. — Alfred North Whitehead
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… — Theodore Dreiser

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