Use these Success Quotes as a springboard for empowerment and achievement. Enter a well of wisdom that captures the spirit of success in succinct words. From tenacity to tactical reasoning, every quotation is a pearl of wisdom to motivate and direct your journey towards achievement.
Allow these brief sayings to act as inspiration for you as you overcome obstacles and celebrate successes, propelling you towards both professional and personal success.
1. “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
2. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
3. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
4. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
5. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
6. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson Sr.
7. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers
8. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
9. “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
10. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
11. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” – W. Clement Stone
12. “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.” – Zig Ziglar
13. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
14. “To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
15. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos
16. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember—the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
17. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie
18. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
19. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw
20. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale
21. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella
22. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
23. “Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” – Brian Tracy
24. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
25. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
26. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown
27. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
28. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
29. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasow
30. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
31. “You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Unknown
32. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Unknown
33. “Success is not just what you accomplish in your life; it is about what you inspire others to do.” – Unknown
34. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” – Roy L. Smith
35. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
36. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
37. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
38. “Success is not about being better than anyone else, it’s about being better than you used to be.” – Unknown
39. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
40. “The path to success is always under construction.” – Unknown
41. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
42. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
44. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” – Iyanla Vanzant
45. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
46. “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
47. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” – Anonymous
48. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe
49. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
50. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
51. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
52. “Excellence is the key to success.” – Unknown
53. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
54. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy
55. “The best way to get something done is to begin.” – Unknown
56. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
57. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
58. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
59. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
60. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler
61. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
62. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg
63. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts burning.” – Muhammad Ali
64. “The road to success is paved with discipline.” – Unknown
65. “The secret to success is constancy to purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
66. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
67. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
68. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
69. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
70. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
71. “Success is not just a measure of how big you can DREAM, it is also a measure of how much you can DO.” – Anonymous
72. “The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” – Criss Jami
73. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
74. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
75. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
76. “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
77. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
78. “Success is not a destination, it’s a journey of self-discovery.” – Unknown
79. “Success is not how your life looks to others, it’s how it feels to you.” – Michelle Obama
80. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
81. “The path to success is not a straight line, it’s a winding road.” – Unknown
82. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
83. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
84. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
85. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
86. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
87. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
88. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
89. “Success is not just about reaching your goals, it’s about enjoying the journey.” – Unknown
90. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
91. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
92. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W.P. Kinsella
93. “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” – Vera Wang
94. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
95. “Success is not in never failing, but rising every time you fall.” – Jonathan Taylor Thomas
96. “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
97. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. “The size of your success is measured by the size of your belief.” – David Schwartz
99. “Success is a mindset, not a destination.” – Unknown
100. “The price of success is hard work, dedication, and perseverance.” – Vince Lombardi
See More
