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 someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
Larry Bird
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler
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The race for excellence has no finish line.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Paul Huster
Paul Huster
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Injuries are our best teachers.
Scott Jurek
Scott Jurek
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak
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A phoenix rises from the ashes for a reason. Your world must be destroyed for you to rise anew. And rise you shall. Just as they feared you would.
Kim Marsalis
Kim Marsalis
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Win small, win early, win often.
Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel
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Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.
Mike Ditka
Mike Ditka
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The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
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Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win.
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Lee Child
Lee Child
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Still I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.
Larry Hite
Larry Hite
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Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.
Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor
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Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.
Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen
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If you don't play to win don't play at all.
Tom Brady
Tom Brady
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Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall
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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson
Doug Larson
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Quality is the best business plan.
John Lasseter
John Lasseter
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Work hard and stay focused to achieve your goals and dreams in life. That is the path to true happiness!
Xavier Dapu
Xavier Dapu
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The only limit to success is your own imagination.
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes
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T-E-A-M stands for together everyone achieves more.
Gary Busey
Gary Busey
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Larry Elder
Larry Elder
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I was born to race and to win.
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
Memclius
Memclius
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Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean
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If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.
Dan Gable
Dan Gable
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts
of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger
of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger
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Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
Russell L. Ackoff
Russell L. Ackoff
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There are no shortcuts to success.
Annika Sorenstam
Annika Sorenstam
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Unknown
Unknown
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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
George Foreman
George Foreman
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
Bernie S. Siegel
Bernie S. Siegel
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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII
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The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate. something you believe is worthwhile.
JIM ROHN
JIM ROHN
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I don't expect success. I prepare for it.
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds
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If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
Ronnie Lott
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Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitation in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".
Unknown
Unknown
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service
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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
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Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.
Mike Vantre
Mike Vantre
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The secret of the team's success is easy - unity and hard work.
David Beckham
David Beckham
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