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.

We learn best in moments of enjoyment.
Ralph C. Smedley
Ralph C. Smedley
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
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Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
Don Henley
Don Henley
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Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
William Marston
William Marston
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I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
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Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
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Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne
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The best place to live is within the soul.
Shiva Negi
Shiva Negi
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Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.
Elliott Gould
Elliott Gould
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Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.
Henry Royce
Henry Royce
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The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
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Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.
Unknown
Unknown
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities – for success, for happiness, for really living – are waiting.
Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman
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There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
Adrian Jodoin
Adrian Jodoin
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Man -- despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey
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Experience is the best teacher.
Penelope Douglas
Penelope Douglas
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A winner never stops trying.
Tom Landry
Tom Landry
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Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Angela Carter
Angela Carter
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Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.
Marco Pierre White
Marco Pierre White
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The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.
James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams
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The best defense is a good offense.
Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
John Forbes Nash
John Forbes Nash
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You either have to be first, best, or different.
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
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Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
BA Russell
BA Russell
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan
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At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.
Karen Salmansohn
Karen Salmansohn
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Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Aristotle
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
Unknown
Unknown
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Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.
Stephen D. Krashen
Stephen D. Krashen
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Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
Sandra Anzovin
Sandra Anzovin
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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden
John Madden
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If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi
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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
Bobby Unser
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We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.
Yip Man
Yip Man
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
Anne Sweeney
Anne Sweeney
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Unleash your life's potential! Don't hold back on the things you've always wanted to do. Go for it!
Denise Austin
Denise Austin
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If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson
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Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.
Nancy Kline
Nancy Kline
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Good enough is not good enough if it can be better. And better is not good enough if it can be best.
Rick Rypka
Rick Rypka
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Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona
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SUCCESS requires SACRIFICE.
Jeanette Coron
Jeanette Coron
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When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
Ed Macauley
Ed Macauley
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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno
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Life is measured in achievement not in years alone.
Bruce McLaren
Bruce McLaren
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