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.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Maria Rippin
Maria Rippin
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
Kimo Yash
Kimo Yash
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Small steps work – grandiose goals don't.
Sonia Choquette
Sonia Choquette
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They never said winning was easy.
DJ Khaled
DJ Khaled
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Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
Don Shula
Don Shula
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Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.
Victoria Osteen
Victoria Osteen
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
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Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.
Mar Andretton
Mar Andretton
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You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly, and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
James Altucher
James Altucher
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.
David Brinkley
David Brinkley
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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards
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I'll do whatever it takes to win.
Terrell Owens
Terrell Owens
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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
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If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail. If you can't be the sun, be a star. It isn't by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
Douglas Malloch
Douglas Malloch
Also featured in: adversity inspiration

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We don't have to win the war today, sir," Heather said. She hoped she looked braver than she felt. "We only have to win the next battle.
J.R. Dunn
J.R. Dunn
Also featured in: inspiration courage time

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I am the best in the world at what I do.
Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
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Doing your best is more important than being the best.
Shannon Miller
Shannon Miller
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot
Ross Perot
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Never let a winning trade go to your head, or a losing trade to your heart.
Van Tharp
Van Tharp
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Winston S. Churchill
Winston S. Churchill
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The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Coubertin
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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.
Gary Hack
Gary Hack
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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
John Grisham
John Grisham
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How can you achieve a state of balance in which you combine the decision to have with the abandonment of direct action? The answer is obvious. You have to maintain balanced intention, which means to want without desiring, to take care without worrying, to act without expecting results, to want success without demanding it or projecting importance. As you already know, the more important the goal the harder it becomes to reach.
Unknown
Unknown
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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
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I expand in abundance, success and love every day as I inspire those around me to do the same.
Guy Hendricks
Guy Hendricks
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If you strive for excellence, success will follow.
Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal
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Winning means being unafraid to lose.
Fran Tarkenton
Fran Tarkenton
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It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes.
Damien Fahey
Damien Fahey
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Actually, the best traders have no ego.
Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager
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May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
George Jung
George Jung
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A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.
Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly
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Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.
Milton S. Hershey
Milton S. Hershey
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Winning products come from the deep understanding of the user's needs combined with an equally deep understanding of what's just now possible.
Mary Cagan
Mary Cagan
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Success results when preparation meets opportunity.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education.
John Legend
John Legend
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle, To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
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A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.
Richard M. Kovacevich
Richard M. Kovacevich
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Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not?
Neil Patel
Neil Patel
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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume
Judy Blume
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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
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