Success Quotes

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”

— Morgan Freeman

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

“You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“Football is a matter of life and death, except more important.”

— Bill Shankly

“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.”

— Walter Reuther

“Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”

— Elvis Presley

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

— Vince Lombardi

“At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”

— Sarah Bernhardt

“Let some people get rich first.”

— Deng Xiaoping

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”

— Confucius

“It's such a bore being always poor.”

— Langston Hughes

“No one succeeds without effort; those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”

— Ramana Maharshi

“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.”

— Taylor Swift

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

— Mark Twain

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”

— Woody Allen

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which more than anything else will affect its successful outcome.”

— William James

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”

— Colin Powell

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”

— Leonard Bernstein

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

— Michael Phelps

“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”

— Edward Moore

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

— Booker T. Washington

“Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.”

— Deng Xiaoping

“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”

— Aeschylus

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth, both financial affluence and emotional security.”

— Suze Orman

“I wanted to be famous; I wanted people to talk about me.”

— Haile Gebrselassie

“I'm never pleased with anything. I'm a perfectionist. It's part of who I am.”

— Michael Jackson

“Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.”

— Josh Billings

“I did my best, and God did the rest.”

— Hattie McDaniel

“Sometimes in football, you have to score goals.”

— Thierry Henry

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”

— Colin Powell

“With self-discipline, most anything is possible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.”

— Ryunosuke Satoro

“Success is not built on success; it's built on failure; it's built on frustration; sometimes it's built on catastrophe.”

— Sumner Redstone

“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta-have-it scale.”

— Zig Ziglar

“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”

— Billy Graham

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon, and my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

— Salvador Dali

“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Quit while you're ahead; all the best gamblers do.”

— Baltasar Gracián

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

— Arnold H. Glasow

“Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Win as if you were used to it. Lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

— Henry Ford

“Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.”

— John Lennon

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal; it's courage that counts.”

— John Wooden

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

— Henry Ford

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I saw rock and roll's future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”

— Jon Landau

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers, but above all the world needs dreamers who do.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

— John Wooden

“I would as soon leave my son a curse as the Almighty Dollar.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

— Pele

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

— Babe Ruth

“No pressure, no diamonds.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— Stephen Hawking

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

— Michael Jordan

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The secret of success is sincerity.”

— Jean Giraudoux

“Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.”

— James Cook

“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“I have been up against tough competition all my life; I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”

— Walt Disney

“I don't dwell on success; maybe that's one reason I'm successful.”

— Calvin Klein

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

“Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

— Dale Carnegie

“I came, I saw, I conquered.”

— Julius Caesar

“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”

— Sallust

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition; the habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

— Herbert Kaufman

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.”

— Usher

“If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

— Bill Cosby

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I've always been an underdog; I feel like I beat the odds.”

— J. Cole

“Don't aim for success. If you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

— David Frost

“Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.”

— Joe Paterno

“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”

— Plutarch

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

— Arthur Ashe

“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.”

— Barack Obama

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

— Muhammad Ali

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

— Virgil

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

— Og Mandino

“We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail sometimes, succeed, but in any case, who have that ambition.”

— Emmanuel Macron

“Success is 99 percent failure.”

— Soichiro Honda

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

— Woody Allen

“Believe in yourself and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.”

— Brad Henry

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life; try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.”

— Robert Browning

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

— Lily Tomlin

“Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.”

— Ralph Marston

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.”

— Herbert Bayard Swope

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

— Newt Gingrich

“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.”

— Bear Bryant

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”

— Solomon Ortiz

“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”

— Aristotle Onassis

“I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success; thankfully, there's no rehab for success.”

— Lil Wayne

“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”

— Julius Caesar

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Lou Holtz

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams; imagination plus innovation equals realization.”

— Denis Waitley

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.”

— Jane D. Hull

“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”

— George Canning

“You must spend money to make money.”

— Plautus

“It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

— Winston Churchill

“Buy land, they're not making it anymore.”

— Mark Twain

“Not what I have, but what I do, is my kingdom.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

— George S. Patton

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“Liking money, like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism; money is a glory.”

— Salvador Dali

“Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.”

— will.i.am

“I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.”

— Erykah Badu

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Fans don't boo nobodies.”

— Reggie Jackson

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine

“Get there first with the most.”

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

— George A. Sheehan

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

— Michelangelo

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”

— Michelangelo

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

— Truman Capote

“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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”

— Swami Sivananda

“The Eagle has landed.”

— Neil Armstrong

“Success is dependent on effort.”

— Sophocles

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

— Steve Prefontaine

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

— Winston Churchill

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”

— Helen Keller

“But I like not these great success of yours, for I know how jealous are the gods.”

— Herodotus

“There's always a way if you're committed.”

— Tony Robbins

“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.”

— Cyril Connolly

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”

— Mark Caine

“He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.”

— Yogi Berra

“The road to success is always under construction.”

— Arnold Palmer

“It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”

— Deng Xiaoping

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

“Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

— Alfred Nobel

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

— Paul Valéry

“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire?”

— Dale Carnegie

“Do what you love and the money will follow.”

— Marsha Sinetar

“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”

— Aeschylus

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

— Walt Disney

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure, but it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.”

— Robert Half

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

— Mike Murdock

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”

— Epicurus

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

— Vince Lombardi

“We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.”

— George Leigh Mallory

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”

— Jack Dempsey

“People do not decide to become extraordinary; they decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”

— Edmund Hillary

“Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone; they want to make products for champions.”

— Simon Sinek

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

— Arthur Ashe

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”

— Epicurus

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend; a successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

— Lana Turner

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

— Bruce Feirstein

“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

— Ernest Shackleton

“To be what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“You've got to be confident when you're competing; you've got to be a beast.”

— Gabby Douglas

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence; this explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”

— Sloan Wilson

“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal; it is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.”

— José Rizal

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

— Tony Robbins

“No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”

— Adam Smith

“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

— Jean Giraudoux

“There is no 'I' in team, but there is in win.”

— Michael Jordan

“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

— Ovid

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

— Walt Disney

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”

— Earl Wilson

“Set your goals high and don't stop till you get there.”

— Bo Jackson

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Success is survival.”

— Leonard Cohen

“It will work; I am a marketing genius.”

— Paris Hilton

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

— Bill Gates

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

“The business of America is business.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

“I've never had a desire to be famous; lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.”

— Jeremy Northam

“Money is like manure; of very little use except it be spread.”

— Francis Bacon

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

— Duke Ellington

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.”

— Everett Dirksen

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“No one can really, honestly be the very best. No one.”

— John Wooden

“I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.”

— Richard Strauss

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.”

— Jim Rohn

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

— Edmund Burke

“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”

— W. Edwards Deming

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

— Henry Ford

“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”

— Ronald Reagan

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

— Mae West

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak became a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

— Dale Carnegie

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.”

— Dean Koontz

“A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.”

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman; if she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.”

— Charles V

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”

— Sophocles

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do, you have to master your craft.”

— Snoop Dogg

“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Success is a great deodorant.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”

— Wilma Mankiller

“Luck is the residue of design.”

— Branch Rickey

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious; success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”

— Jim Rohn

“No matter when or where, always bring your A-game because you never know when it will open doors for you.”

— Simon Sinek

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess; but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

— James Russell Lowell

“It's always too early to quit.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

— Elon Musk

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

— Anatole France

“They can because they think they can.”

— Virgil

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Every failure is a step to success.”

— William Whewell

“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.”

— Max Beerbohm

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

— Neil Armstrong

“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

— Lou Brock

“The key to making money is to stay invested.”

— Suze Orman

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

— Bobby Unser

“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

— Bette Davis

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

— Walter Scott

“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Raymond Chandler

“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

— Winston Churchill

“The best revenge is massive success.”

— Frank Sinatra

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.”

— Christopher Columbus

“Better is the enemy of good.”

— Voltaire

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

— Audrey Hepburn

“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

— Larry Bird

“The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.”

— H.G. Wells

“For they conquer who believe they can.”

— John Dryden

“Always keep your composure; you can't score from the penalty box, and to win you have to score.”

— Horace

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

— Tony Robbins

“A hungry dog hunts best; a hungrier dog hunts even better.”

— Norman Ralph Augustine

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

— Vince Lombardi

“I'm proud of all our records, even the crap ones.”

— Joe Strummer

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

— Winston Churchill

“There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.”

— Carl Lewis

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

— Erwin Rommel

“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a factor that decides between success and failure.”

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

— Daniel Burnham

“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

“Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door.”

— Kyle Chandler

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

— Thomas Huxley

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”

— Al Bernstein

“If there be no enemy, there's no fight; if no fight, no victory; and if no victory, there is no crown.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon, and my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

— Salvador Dali

“You're only as good as your last haircut.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

— Vince Lombardi

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

— George S. Patton

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

— George Washington Carver

“Communication—the human connection is the key to personal and career success.”

— Paul J. Meyer

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”

— Francis Bacon

“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”

— J. Paul Getty

“You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.”

— Warren Beatty

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

— Vince Lombardi

“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”

— Francis Picabia

“Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept and later turn it into an idea.”

— Woody Allen

“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

— Bruce Lee

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”

— Les Brown

“What is easy is seldom excellent.”

— Samuel Johnson

“In every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten; then he who continues the attack wins.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.”

— J. Paul Getty

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

— Walt Disney

“Nothing succeeds like success.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”

— Pliny the Elder

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

“If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.”

— Tom Hanks

“My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord; he wants Milan and so do I.”

— Charles V

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.”

— Edmund Hillary

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.”

— Albert Einstein

“Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

— Stephen King

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

— Sam Walton

“Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Go forth, a conqueror, and win great victories.”

— Virgil

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

— John Wooden

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

— Steve Jobs

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

— Walt Disney

“Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

— Og Mandino

“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”

— George Eliot

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”

— Ayn Rand

“The Lord gave us two ends: one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.”

— Ann Landers

“The harder I work, the luckier I become.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

— Alexander the Great

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

— Lou Holtz

“Climbing to the top demands strength. Whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

— Abdul Kalam

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

— William James

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

— Epictetus

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

— Henry Ford

“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”

— Joel Osteen

“Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.”

— Ben Barnes

“The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.”

— Barbara Sher

“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

— George S. Patton

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

— Samuel Johnson

“If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.”

— Bear Bryant

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal: It's courage that counts.”

— John Wooden

“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”

— Michael Jordan

“If you think you can do it, you can.”

— John Burroughs

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Mark Twain

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

— Vince Lombardi

“There is always room at the top.”

— Daniel Webster

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

— George Halas

“There is no substitute for victory.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“When you're not winning, you're losing.”

— John McCain

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

— Napoleon Hill

“It isn't what you do, but how you do it.”

— John Wooden

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

— George S. Patton

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

— Andy Grove

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential—these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

— Confucius

“A strong positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.”

— Joyce Brothers

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is liking what you get.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”

— Henry J. Heinz

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow; you doze off and die in your sleep.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Even victors are by victories undone.”

— John Dryden

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Gustav Mahler

“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank; success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”

— Mike Ditka

“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”

— Charles Kettering

“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation; veneer isn't worth anything.”

— George Washington Carver

“Give me the luxuries of life, and I will willingly do without the necessities.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Good enough never is.”

— Debbi Fields

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

— Malcolm X

“Life is a succession of moments to live. Each one is to succeed.”

— Corita Kent

“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.”

— Philip Sidney

“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

— Mark Twain

“Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.”

— St. Jerome

“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

“With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

— David Brinkley

“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

— George S. Patton

“In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.”

— Robert Kennedy

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”

— Christopher Lasch

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”

— Alexander Pope

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

— Mick Jagger

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.”

— Queen Victoria

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

— Mickey Rooney

“Swifter, Higher, Stronger.”

— Pierre de Coubertin

“Sometimes you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, if you have a dream, chase it.”

— Karl Malone

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

— Mark Twain

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

— Mark Twain

“Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

— George Best

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

— Ayn Rand

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game—the American game.”

— Walt Whitman

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Remember that you are an Englishman and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.”

— Cecil Rhodes

“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.”

— Michael Phelps

“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

— W. Clement Stone

“We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles. The Eagles are better than us.”

— Sid Vicious

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

— William Feather

“The individual who can do something that the world wants done will in the end make his way regardless of his race.”

— Booker T. Washington

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.”

— Hillary Clinton

“Venus favors the bold.”

— Ovid

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

— William Butler Yeats

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

— William James

“Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”

— Václav Havel

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”

— Robert H. Schuller

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”

— Christopher Columbus

“Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out, and it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.”

— Simon Sinek

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

— Henry Ford

“I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.”

— Heston Blumenthal

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

— Ayn Rand

“You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.”

— Epictetus

“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

“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Money often costs too much.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.”

— Errol Flynn

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”

— Confucius

“If something's important enough, you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.”

— Elon Musk

“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

— Epictetus

“Success breeds success.”

— Mia Hamm

“Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Ambition is the path to success; persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

— William Eardley IV

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. When you think about the consequences, you always think of a negative result.”

— Michael Jordan

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

— Confucius

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”

— Bo Bennett

“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.”

— Pythagoras

“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

— Napoleon Hill

“With luck on your side, you can do without brains.”

— Giordano Bruno

“The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.”

— Bobby Knight

“Aim for the highest.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.”

— Sydney Smith

“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.”

— Steve Jobs

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

— Eddie Vedder

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

— Tony Robbins

“At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't get very far.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”

— Arnold H. Glasow

“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.”

— Milan Kundera

“Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

“Well begun is half done.”

— Aristotle

“Good design is good business.”

— Thomas J. Watson

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

— Herodotus

“Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.”

— Bear Bryant

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

— Michael LeBoeuf

“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”

— Paul Getty

“Riches don't make a man rich; they only make him busier.”

— Christopher Columbus

“Leave no stone unturned.”

— Euripides

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

— Robert Kennedy

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.”

— Jim Rohn

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

— Howard Aiken

“Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”

— Sylvester Stallone

“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”

— John Paul Jones

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”

— Emily Dickinson

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement; one fails forward toward success.”

— C.S. Lewis

“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“Before Alamein, we never had a victory; after Alamein, we never had a defeat.”

— Winston Churchill

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

— George S. Patton

“Poets wish to profit or to please.”

— Horace

“We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves; there must be contest, and we must win.”

— Edward Gibbon

“I ain't in no slump; I just ain't hitting.”

— Yogi Berra

“To get rich is glorious.”

— Deng Xiaoping

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake

“We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.”

— Noel Gallagher

“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”

— Dan Gable

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”

— Bill Shankly

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

— Will Smith

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.”

— Jesse Ventura

“When I'm good, I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.”

— Mae West

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Football is a simple game; twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”

— Gary Lineker

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”

— Vernon Howard

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence; not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”

— Barack Obama

“Fortune favors the brave.”

— Terence

“If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

— Elon Musk

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.”

— Vince Lombardi

“There is no success without hardship.”

— Sophocles

“I'll tell you there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.”

— Salma Hayek

“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”

— Herodotus

“Your actions and your action alone determines your worth.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Fortune favours the bold.”

— Virgil

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

— Henry Ford

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight; but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money.”

— Johnny Cash

“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”

— Vince Lombardi

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

— Bill Bradley

“Discipline is the soul of an army; it makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

— George Washington

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

“I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

— George Eliot

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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