Cult Quote by Max Lerner

Most great men start in that position, with very little and that's what motivates them to get where they're going.

— Caleb Plant

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

— Ben Stein

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that…

— Anonymous

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

— William Cobbett

It is the success which makes great men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

— Elbert Hubbard

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such…

— Walter Russell

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the…

— W. H. Auden

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

— Ptolemy

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

— E. W. Howe