Success Quotes: Inspiration for Your Ascent

Learn from the successful with quotes that outline paths to success. Inspire your personal and professional growth.

Image of Julia Child
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
- Julia Child
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Image of Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
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Image of Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Image of Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
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Image of Edward Everett Hale
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Edward Everett Hale
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Image of Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Stephen Hawking
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
- Stephen Hawking
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Image of Vince Lombardi
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
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Image of Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
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Image of Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
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Image of W. C. Fields
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
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Image of Elbert Hubbard
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Image of Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn
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Image of Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Sun Tzu
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
- Sun Tzu
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Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Image of Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso
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Image of Zig Ziglar
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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Image of Mario Andretti
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
- Mario Andretti
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Image of Michael Jordan
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
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Image of Orison Swett Marden
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Woody Allen
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
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Image of George S. Patton
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- George S. Patton
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Image of Jim Lovell
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
- Jim Lovell
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Image of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Mike Ditka
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
- Mike Ditka
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Image of Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Robert Kiyosaki
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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Image of Andrew Carnegie
There is little success where there is little laughter.
- Andrew Carnegie
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Miguel de Cervantes
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Image of Sophocles
Success is dependent on effort.
- Sophocles
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Image of Arnold H. Glasow
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Arnold H. Glasow
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Image of John Ruskin
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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Image of William Feather
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Image of Christopher Morley
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
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Image of Jon Bon Jovi
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
- Jon Bon Jovi
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Image of Maria Montessori
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Marilyn Monroe
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
- Marilyn Monroe
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Image of Shah Rukh Khan
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
- Shah Rukh Khan
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