Success Quotes

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

25498 quotes

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"I feel more confident and cheerful when I have accomplished something."
Anton Chekhov
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"What we call luck is often just preparation meeting opportunity."
Anton Chekhov
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Success is not guaranteed by hard work alone; you must also have the right attitude."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life or of the work."
William Butler Yeats
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"Perfection is like a storm cloud that constantly moves; it is never quite where you stand."
William Butler Yeats
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"Success is not measured by wealth alone."
Thomas Hardy
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"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
Oscar Wilde
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"The true measure of success is the good we leave behind."
James Joyce
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"Success is measured not in fame but in integrity."
James Joyce
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"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
George Eliot
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"Success is a shallow thing, but goodness is a deep thing."
Thomas Hardy
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"Strive to be virtuous, and you may be happy."
Anne Brontë
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"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life or of the work."
William Butler Yeats
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"The happiness that could be had must be fought for."
William Butler Yeats
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
Oscar Wilde
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
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"Success is not measured by wealth or status, but by the content of one's soul."
Anne Brontë
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"The pursuit of success often requires the abandonment of self."
Thomas Hardy
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"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
George Eliot
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"I have noticed that the people who get ahead in the world are those who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them."
William Butler Yeats
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"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
William Butler Yeats
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"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
Charlotte Brontë
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"We are the architects of our own fortunes."
Charlotte Brontë
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"I went out to make my fortune, but instead I made my fame."
Oscar Wilde
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"I find that honest struggle produces greater character than easy success."
Anne Brontë