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.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang
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Success is about smart risk management, not about wild risk taking.
Michael Masterson
Michael Masterson
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins
Joan Collins
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Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham
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Life at best is bittersweet.
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too.
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire
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Survival is my only hope. Success is my only revenge.
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell
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You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.
Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio
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When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
Unknown
Unknown
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We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano De Crescenzo
Luciano De Crescenzo
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I am always successful in my work.
George Weah
George Weah
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There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis
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F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.
Unknown
Unknown
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Be as swift as the wind. As silent as the forest. As fierce as the fire. As unshakable as the mountain. And you can do anything...
Renee Ahdieh
Renee Ahdieh
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Seneca
Seneca
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The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Juma Ikangaa
Juma Ikangaa
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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas
George Halas
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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
Unknown
Unknown
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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
Unknown
Unknown
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Win with grace, lose with dignity!
Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar
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Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.
Vera Wang
Vera Wang
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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
David Frost
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Winners are born, Champions are made.
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
Hamilton Holt
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Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
Willie Taggart
Willie Taggart
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We love others best when we love God most.
Kyle Idleman
Kyle Idleman
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Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.
Unknown
Unknown
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I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson
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Duh," said Aru. "With great power comes great opportunity to annoy.
Roshani Chokshi
Roshani Chokshi
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Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.
Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson
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The best things in life are free.
Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross
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The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.
George Raveling
George Raveling
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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.
Eugene Gendlin
Eugene Gendlin
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Seneca
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Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
Unknown
Unknown
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If you believe, you can achieve - that's my motto!
Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Defeat winter, read a book.
Bibiana Krall
Bibiana Krall
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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn
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The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick
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The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
Elizabeth Duke
Elizabeth Duke
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It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger
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See it, believe it, achieve it.
Lori-Ann Muenzer
Lori-Ann Muenzer
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