165 Success Quotes

“Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.” – Earl Nightingale

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

“The key to success is to develop a winning edge.” – Brian Tracy

“Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.” – Dax Sheperd

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.” – Sam Walton

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins

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

“No-one knows what he can do until he tries.” – Publilius Syrus

“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Arthur Ashe

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

“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

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonnardo da Vinci

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

“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

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G.K. Chesterton

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.” – Martha Stewart

“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened.” – Jim Lovell

“They succeed, because they think they can.” – Virgil

“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.” – Larry King

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller

“The true success is the person who invented himself.” – Al Goldstein

“Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.” – Gary Keller

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohil

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

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

“All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.” – Mark Twain

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. ” – Robert Collier

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga

“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” – W. Clement Stone

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Gen. Colin Powell

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers

“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” – Chris Jami

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

“You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.” – Lou Holtz

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

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

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” – Paul J. Meyer

“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

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain

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

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” – Mother Teresa

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success.” – Ross Perot

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.” – Brianna Wiest

“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.” – Michael Dell

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” – Will Smith

“Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones – this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” – Napoleon Hill

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” – Elie Wiesel

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

“The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.” – Naval Ravikant

“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.” – Elbert Hubbard

“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.” – Nelson Rockefeller

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” – Bo Bennett

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.” – Israelmore Ayivor

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” – Nelson Mandela

“Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.” – Denzel Washington

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.” – Thomas J. Watson

“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“You don’t have to show people how successful you are.” – Martin Yan

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

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

“The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness that any other.” – Brian Tracy

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.” – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

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

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never ...

... lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.” – Bessie Stanley

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

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

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.” – Al Lewis

“Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The maximum success is reached when you are never busy.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” – Thomas J. Watson

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

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” – Thomas Wolfe

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

“Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.” – Denis Waitley

“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

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

“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

“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.” – Erma Bombeck

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

“What’s money? 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

“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” – Christopher Reeve

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.” – Ray Croc

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Sir Walter Scott

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” – Paul J. Meyer

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”” – Ray Goforth

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” – Audrey Hepburn

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

“Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.” – James Clear

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” – Robert Kiosaki

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

“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child

“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Teddy Roosevelt

“You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – Gen. George Patton

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell

“I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.” – Calvin Klein

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone

“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela

“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.” – Scott Adam

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.” – Bob Brown

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

“I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.” – Margaret Meade

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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” – Mike Ditka

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” – Ray Croc

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

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.” – Tennessee Williams

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

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser