Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Quote by Andre Malraux

Topics: Courage Quotes, Failure Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Risk-taking Quotes, Success Quotes

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love....

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love....

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither...

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither...

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Art is a revolt against fate.

Art is a revolt against fate.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to...

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to...

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes...

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world...