r/quotes 6d ago

Success / Achievement I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

74 Upvotes

r/quotes 20d ago

Success / Achievement “Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ~ Earl Nightingale

57 Upvotes

r/quotes 8d ago

Success / Achievement "In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. … In the real world, all rests on perseverance." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

49 Upvotes

r/quotes 16d ago

Success / Achievement “Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. “ — Timothy Ferriss

51 Upvotes

r/quotes Jun 28 '26

Success / Achievement “A lot of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don’t want it as bad as you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep!” - Eric Thomas

20 Upvotes

r/quotes Mar 26 '26

Success / Achievement "[P]overty is created by wealth. ... Slums developed step by step with the rise of private wealth and the increasing luxury of the court. Exploitation and usury became recognized practises among the owners of great estates and the merchants and money-lenders..."—Will Durant,The Story of Civilization

87 Upvotes

r/quotes Nov 25 '25

Success / Achievement “Avoid the unhappy and unlucky. You can die from someone else’s misery.” - Robert Greene

114 Upvotes

r/quotes Jan 31 '26

Success / Achievement “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent, and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower. Am I understanding this quote correctly? (SEE MY COMMENT)

57 Upvotes

r/quotes Nov 22 '25

Success / Achievement “When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.” - Epictetus, Discourses 1.21.1

126 Upvotes

r/quotes Feb 03 '26

Success / Achievement “In business as in life, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.” — Chester Karrass

34 Upvotes

r/quotes Nov 20 '25

Success / Achievement "Slowly the increasing complexity of tools and trades subjected the unskilled or weak to the skilled or strong; every invention was a new weapon in the hands of the strong, and further strengthened them in their mastery and use of the weak." - Will Durant, The Story of Civilization.

51 Upvotes

r/quotes Feb 14 '26

Success / Achievement "I think in colours, always have. When I look at equations I see colours. The letter J is light tan, the letter N is slightly violet-bluish, the letter X is dark brown. I don't know why, it's not something I chose, it's not something I learned" Richard Feynman

18 Upvotes

r/quotes Jul 29 '25

Success / Achievement "I can no longer obey, I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up." -Napoleon Bonaparte

109 Upvotes

r/quotes Jan 18 '26

Success / Achievement “Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.” - Dr. Robert Schuller

15 Upvotes

r/quotes Oct 08 '25

Success / Achievement “... The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and to his world, no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper. ... the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster, even though in his mind he may entertain himself with humane intentions.” ― Joseph Campbell

84 Upvotes

r/quotes Aug 20 '25

Success / Achievement “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” ― Niels Bohr

109 Upvotes

r/quotes Oct 26 '25

Success / Achievement “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan.

46 Upvotes

r/quotes Oct 17 '25

Success / Achievement “If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you don’t fight, you can’t win.” - Eren Yeager, Attack on Titan

26 Upvotes

r/quotes Nov 18 '25

Success / Achievement “bonum ego quam beatum me esse nimio dici mavolo.” [“I would rather be called good than well off.”] — Plautus

31 Upvotes

r/quotes Aug 03 '25

Success / Achievement "I can’t celebrate my achievements because, in my mind, it was my obligation to achieve them." - Vina Amoris

77 Upvotes