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, Success Quotes

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...

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...

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.

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...

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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...

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

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...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

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.

An art book is a museum without walls.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...