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.

If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed.
Tom Platz
Tom Platz
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For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare
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Technology is best when it brings people together.
Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg
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The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.
Bill O'Brien
Bill O'Brien
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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
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I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.
Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold
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I did my best, and God did the rest.
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel
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We all leave one another. We die, we change – it's mostly change – we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...
Unknown
Unknown
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You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Kristen Proby
Kristen Proby
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Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
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I didn't become successful until I became myself.
Sam Smith
Sam Smith
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To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
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Accomplishing the maximum impact on student learning depends on teams of teachers working together with excellent leaders or coaches agreeing on specific goals for growth connected to each course, knowing the students' starting and desired success in learning, seeking evidence continually about their impact on all students, modifying their teaching in light of this evaluation, and joining in the success of truly making a difference to student outcomes.
Unknown
Unknown
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The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.
Dalai Lama XIV
Dalai Lama XIV
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Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.
Art Buchwald
Art Buchwald
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Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.
Jose Jonas Garret
Jose Jonas Garret
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Impatience for victory guarantees defeat.
Louis XIV
Louis XIV
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To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform.
Rizwan Adilson
Rizwan Adilson
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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
Rabbi Dovid Basner
Rabbi Dovid Basner
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You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell
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The most successful men work smart, not hard.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Every day is a new opportunity.
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
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A goal without a plan is only a dream.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
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There is no shortcut to success.
Samarpan
Samarpan
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Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
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Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg
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We win because we play together as a team.
John Havlicek
John Havlicek
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Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Richard Cushing
Richard Cushing
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Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility.
Grant Cardone
Grant Cardone
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Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it.
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton
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The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
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Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
Bill Marriott Jr
Bill Marriott Jr
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The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.
John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell
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If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins.
Unknown
Unknown
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We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.
Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
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The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
Bret Hart
Bret Hart
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Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
Bobby Flay
Bobby Flay
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If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
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I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.
Alonzo Mourning
Alonzo Mourning
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Success isn't that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.
Benjamin Hardy
Benjamin Hardy
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The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.
Larry Crabb
Larry Crabb
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With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom
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Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.
Robert Brody
Robert Brody
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Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.
Martha Thomas
Martha Thomas
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Steven Wright
Steven Wright
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