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.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner
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Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.
Teresa Amabile
Teresa Amabile
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Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
Geert Hofstede
Geert Hofstede
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The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.
Frans Johansson
Frans Johansson
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Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.
Chris Prentiss
Chris Prentiss
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May I never forget, on my best day, that I need God as desperately as I did on my worst day.
Mike Yoke
Mike Yoke
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Also featured in: life inspiration

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I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling
Also featured in: life

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If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal.
Darrel Kuhn
Darrel Kuhn
Also featured in: change work

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Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.
Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae
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Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis
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It's not only the family you have that makes you who you are but also the family you make. Often it's the latter who helps you catch the wind on sunny days and who anchors you when seas get rough.
Tracy Wolf
Tracy Wolf
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Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
Matt Biondi
Matt Biondi
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton
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Success is having consistent work habits.
Peter J. Daniels
Peter J. Daniels
Also featured in: work

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.
Leila Janah
Leila Janah
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan
Tim Duncan
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It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.
David Caruso
David Caruso
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Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!
Dan Millman
Dan Millman
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Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.
Roger Staubach
Roger Staubach
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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
Bruce Feirstein
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A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.
Unknown
Unknown
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There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
William Holley
William Holley
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Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Jeffrey Pfeffer
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Heads I win, tails I don't lose much.
Mohnish Pabrai
Mohnish Pabrai
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Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.
Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus
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When life closes a door, God opens a window.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith
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Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional.
Carmine Gallo
Carmine Gallo
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Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Also featured in: adversity courage time family

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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
Lewis Grizzard
Also featured in: life courage

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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Barrie Bar
Barrie Bar
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Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
David Crockett
David Crockett
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The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.
Ashley Rickards
Ashley Rickards
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Patience is a key element of success.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
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Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Also featured in: adversity friendship time work

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Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because it's the best thing going. Wooooo!
Ric Flair
Ric Flair
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Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Azad
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If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
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God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity.
Sri Kaothe Mai
Sri Kaothe Mai
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Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?
Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyam Trungpa
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I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
Bess Myerson
Bess Myerson
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Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.
Jim Andrews
Jim Andrews
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When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.
Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf
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Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
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Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
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