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.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
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In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.
Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
Robert Ardrey
Robert Ardrey
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Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!
Ravinder Singh
Ravinder Singh
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.
Noel Jones
Noel Jones
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
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Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?
Sergio Mattarella
Sergio Mattarella
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Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet
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I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner
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Success occurs when preparation meets opportunity.
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi
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It's not that I want to win, it's just that I don't want to lose.
Gackt
Gackt
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Always celebrate your wins. Big or small.
Leigh Shulman
Leigh Shulman
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All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai
Morarji Desai
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The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.
Lee Roberson
Lee Roberson
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows. My friends forsake me like a memory lost. I am the self-consumer of my woes. They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost. And yet I
am, and live with shadows tost.
am, and live with shadows tost.
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Don't dream of winning, train for it.
Mohamed Farah
Mohamed Farah
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If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
Bjorn Borg
Bjorn Borg
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I always win in the end.
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline
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I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.
Paul Weller
Paul Weller
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If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.
Dorothy West
Dorothy West
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
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Business is a team sport, one in which you're never going to win on your own.
Alan Dib
Alan Dib
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In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race.
David Cameron
David Cameron
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Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
Bill Thier
Bill Thier
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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith
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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.
Unknown
Unknown
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The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Jordan Gubby Brown
Jordan Gubby Brown
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
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Success by design is infinitely better than a win by chance.' Success.
Orri Swami
Orri Swami
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Even the best fall down sometimes.
Howie Day
Howie Day
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When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.
Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz
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Out of discomfort comes greatness.
Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop
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Best things in life aren't things.
Mike Ness
Mike Ness
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Successful social media marketing is not built on impressions. It is built on relationships.
Kim Garst
Kim Garst
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I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.
Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs
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The whole secret to winning big in the stock market is not to be right all the time, but to lose the least amount possible when you're wrong.
William J. O'Neil
William J. O'Neil
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
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The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
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The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.
Unknown
Unknown
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Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Denny Thomas
Denny Thomas
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If you practice hard, you can win every battle.
Manny Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao
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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol
Claude M. Bristol
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It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.
Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Beckenbauer
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Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
Pope Leo
Pope Leo
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To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.
Ken Griffey, Jr.
Ken Griffey, Jr.
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Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent
Michael Broadbent
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