However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.
—Stephen Hawking
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
—Sun Tzu
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
If in rage you wish to harm someone, whether you succeed or not, as a result of your rage you’re certainly committing evil against yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
May the God of all grace succeed my poor labours in this place!
—David Brainerd
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
—Isaac Newton
The reason why many fail in the battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came.
—R. A. Torrey
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
—Oscar Wilde
Sincere endeavors to do God’s service is our whole work, but the success of these endeavors is God’s work.
Stephen Marshall
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
—George Washington
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
—Thomas Edison
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
By fixing its followers a strong psychic infantilism and making them share a collective delusion, religion succeeds in sparing quantity of human beings an individual neurosis.
—Sigmund Freud
If we suppose that Christ died without any absolute determination that any particular persons should be saved by his death, we must suppose that he undertook to die when he was wholly at uncertainties about the success of his death.
—Jonathan Edwards
Number one secret of success in the consulting business: Be Responsive.
—Peter R. Rose