Top 622 Success Quotes

Success means something different to everyone, but the people who reach it tend to agree on a few things: persistence, purpose, and the courage to keep going after failure. These quotes on success come from founders, athletes, writers, and thinkers who learned it the hard way.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.
George Augustus Moore
George Augustus Moore
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Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.
Roy Vaden
Roy Vaden
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Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
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Set your goal and keep moving forward.
Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre
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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
John Tukey
John Tukey
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
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The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings
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If you want to be successful, you have to jump. there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.
Unknown
Unknown
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Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.
Chiranjeevi Sarabhai
Chiranjeevi Sarabhai
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Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment
A.R. Rahman
A.R. Rahman
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Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.
Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry
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Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
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We rise by lifting others.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi
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You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
Jay Zayler
Jay Zayler
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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Melody Beattie
Melody Beattie
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We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
Robert Brault
Robert Brault
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Sophocles
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Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.
Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin
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Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
John Adams
John Adams
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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken.
Take heed, do not squander your life.
Take heed, do not squander your life.
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A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.
Pele
Pele
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.
Janton Stansor Lavley
Janton Stansor Lavley
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken- winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
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A goal without a date is just a dream.
Milton H. Erickson
Milton H. Erickson
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Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!
Joseph Smith Jr.
Joseph Smith Jr.
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
Horace Mann
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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
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A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.
Joe Vitale
Joe Vitale
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Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
Hil Harper
Hil Harper
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
Stephen King
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Adversity is preparation for greatness.
Andy Andrews
Andy Andrews
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
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Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
Pat Riley
Pat Riley
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Best of luck in your future endeavors!
C.M. Punk
C.M. Punk
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
Jonas Earickson Tadros
Jonas Earickson Tadros
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Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile.
G-Dragon
G-Dragon
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
William Feather
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Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream
big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go
big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go
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