“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
Aristotle · paraphrase of Nicomachean Ethics
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Success Quotes
116 quotes on success and achievement — from the classics to the everyday.
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney · widely attributed
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill · widely attributed
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius · widely attributed
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford commencement, 2005
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison · widely attributed, c. 1902
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to set an example of modest, unostentatious living.”
Andrew Carnegie · The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman.”
Tony Montana · Scarface, 1983
“The world is yours.”
Tony Montana · Scarface, 1983
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”
Henry Hill · Goodfellas, 1990
“I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt · Labor Day speech, Syracuse, 1903
“I made it out, but it still don't feel real.”
Rod Wave
“I came from the bottom, now I'm tryna stay up.”
Rod Wave
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The glue that holds all relationships together, including the relationship between the leader and the led, is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”
Brian Tracy
