Success Quotes

Success means different things to different people. These quotes redefine what it means to truly succeed.

25498 quotes

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Robertson Davies
"Obsession is a young man's game, but success is an old man's reward."
Robertson Davies
"Luck is a dividend of sweat, the residue of design."
Robertson Davies
J
"Success is the person who continues to succeed even in the face of failure."
Joyce Carol Oates
J
"We are the authors of our own destinies."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve it, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Harper Lee
"The most important thing is to be yourself and to do good work."
Douglas Coupland
"Luck is just the crossroads where preparation and opportunity meet."
Douglas Coupland
"The worst thing about being successful is that you have to keep succeeding."
Douglas Coupland
"Success is not measured by money but by the love you give."
Carson McCullers
E
"Luck is a gift of others, but never the foundation of achievement."
Eudora Welty
M
"Perfectionism is not excellence."
Margaret Atwood
F
"The truth is, I'm not interested in making a good living."
Flannery O'Connor
"A man of very moderate abilities may be made a considerable figure if he sets about it in the right way."
Robertson Davies
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."
Cormac McCarthy
E
"The greatest achievement is to become who you were meant to be."
Eudora Welty
J
"Success requires an almost obsessive dedication to your craft, a willingness to endure rejection."
Joyce Carol Oates
J
"Success measured only in external terms is ultimately hollow and unsatisfying."
Joyce Carol Oates
H
"A good life is built on small, consistent choices."
Harper Lee
"The great secret of success is to work, to work with all your might and all your soul"
Robertson Davies
"Success is not measured in wealth alone"
Robertson Davies
"The only true measure of success is whether you've become the person you wanted to be."
Cormac McCarthy
E
"Character is built through our choices, not our circumstances."
Eudora Welty
E
"Finding one true subject for your life's work is the greatest luck."
Eudora Welty
E
"The future is built from the choices we make in the present."
Eudora Welty
J
"Success is not a destination but a continuous process of becoming."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Talent is its own expectation: you don't choose it, it chooses you."
David Foster Wallace
S
"Success is like some horrible, inexorable force."
Saul Bellow
"Success is measured not in achievement but in the lives you've touched."
Cormac McCarthy
"Success is a very complicated thing."
Philip Roth