150 Success Quotes To Motivate You To Be Successful

Looking for some powerful quotes on success? We have rounded up the best collection of success quotes, sayings, phrases, captions, and status messages, (with images, pictures, and wallpapers) to motivate you every day to work hard and be successful.

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These famous success quotations are by popular leaders, celebrities, writers, and authors, of all time around the world, who will encourage you with wise words of wisdom to be successful.

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Reading success quotes regularly can help individuals stay focused, motivated, and inspired to achieve their goals.

Success quotes can also provide individuals with a fresh perspective and a renewed sense of determination to overcome challenges and setbacks.

They can serve as a source of encouragement and remind people that success is possible if they are willing to put in the effort and stay committed to their goals.

The inspirational quotes are great for students, businessmen, entrepreneurs, life, and teamwork for a positive approach and growth mindset. Don’t miss our collection of preparation quotes to always be ready in life.

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Inspirational Quotes About Success In Life

1. “Success is not given. It is earned.”                                                                                         

   

    

2. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
3. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
4. “Happiness is the highest level of success.”
5. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.”                                                                                 

   

    
6. “Success is never accidental.” ― Jack Dorsey
7. “Being happy is the greatest form of success.”
8. “80% of success is showing up.” ― Woody Allen
9. “Nothing succeeds like success.” ― Alexandre Dumas
10. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.”                                                     

    
11. “Success is the child of audacity.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
12. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
13. “Success is directly related to hard work and dedication.”
14. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” ― Malcolm Forbes
15. “I don’t expect success. I prepare for it.” ― Ryan Reynolds                                                           

    
16. “Our struggles determine our successes.” ― Mark Manson
17. “Life is 10% what happens and 90% of how you react to it.”
18. “Success has always been a great liar.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
19. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
20. “Success is a mindset. Let’s learn how to create a positive one.”

Top 10 Success Quotes To Inspire You

1. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” ― Bo Bennett
2. “When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” ― Bo Bennett                                         

   
3. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
4. “The key to success is to start before you’re ready.” ― Marie Forleo
5. “The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
6. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James
7. “The true success is the person who invented himself.” ― Al Goldstein
8. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln                                   

   

9. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” ― Virat Kohli
10. “The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” ― Criss Jami

Powerful Quotes On Success

1. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ― Michael John Bobak
2. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ― George S. Patton
3. “Your attitude, not your aptitude will determine your altitude.” ― Zig Ziglar

   

4. “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” ― Henry Ford
5. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis
6. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
7. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”
8. “Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”
9. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ― Bruce Lee

   
10. “If you never knew failure. You will never know success.” ― Sugar Ray Leonard
11. “Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.” ― Bob Brown
12. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ― Herman Melville
13. “I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.” ― Calvin Klein
14. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― Lolly Daskal
15. “All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.” ― Mark Twain
16. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” ― Robert H. Schuller
17. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” ― Robert Collier                                                                                                                                     

    

18. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” ― Winston Churchill
19. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.”
20. “It is during our failures… that we discover our true desire for success.” ― Kevin Ngo
21. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” ― Aristotle Onassis
22. “If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.” ― Scott Adam
23. “Success is leaving a good path, or even better, leaving no path at all.” ― Maxime Lagacé
24. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” ― Stephen McCranie
25. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” ― Colin R. Davis
26. “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.” ― Elbert Hubbard
27. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”
28. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” ― John D. Rockefeller Jr.
29. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” ― Henry David Thoreau
30. “A successful woman is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at her.”                                                                                                                       

    

31. “Success does not depend on our position but our disposition which is our attitude.” ― Shiv Khera
32. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel
33. “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
34. “Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman
35. “Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.” ― Sparky Anderson
36. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ― Bill Cosby
37. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” ― Wayne Dyer
38. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ― Mark Twain
39. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” ― David Bly
40. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” ― Don Zimmer
41. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
42. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” ― Henry Ford
43. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” ― Stephen Hawking
44. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” ― Arthur Ashe
46. “Success in marriage is the sum of small efforts, focused on showing love and appreciation, repeated every day.”
47. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” ― Francis Chan
48. “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.” ― Deepak Chopra
49. “Sometimes success isn’t about making the right decision, it’s more about making some decision.” ― Robin S. Sharma
50. “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It adds up.” ― Dwayne Johnson
51. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” ― Steve Jobs
52. “Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.” ― Brian Tracy
53. “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” ― Napoleon Hill
54. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ― George Lorimer
55. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas Edison
56. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill
57. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” ― Jim Rohn
58. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” ― Dwayne Johnson
59. “Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” ― John C. Maxwell
60. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” ― Warren Buffett
61. “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                                                                                                                                                               

    

Powerful Quotes About Success In Business

1. “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.”
2. “Clarity equals success.” ― Greg McKeown
3. “To fly, we have to have resistance.” ― Maya Lin
4. “Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.”                                                   

   

5. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” ― Winston Churchill
6. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”
7. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” ― Chris Grosser
8. “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” ― Robert Browning
9. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” ― Bobby Unser                                   

   

10. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” ― Tony Hsieh
11. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.”
12. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote
13. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney
14. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ― Steve Jobs
15. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” ― Tony Robbins
16. “Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.” ― Sam Walton
17. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ― John D. Rockefeller
18. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.”
19. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” ― Dr. Henry Link
20. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” ― Thomas Jefferson
21. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” ― Zig Ziglar
22. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ― John R. Wooden
23. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” ― Alexander Graham Bell
24. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” ― Steve Jobs                                                                                                                                           

    

25. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” ― John C. Maxwell
26. “The maximum success is reached when you are never busy.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
27. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” ― Shiv Khera                                                                                                                                       

    

28. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” ― Bill Bradley
    “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” ― Robert Kiyosaki
29. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
30. “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” ― Henry Kravis
31. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” ― Ralph Nader
32. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill
33. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ― Jim Rohn
34. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ― John Wooden
35. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” ― Bill Gates
36. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” ― Bill Gates
37. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” ― Elon Musk
38. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ― Bruce Lee
39. “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” ― Paul J. Meyer
40. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” ― Napoleon Hill                                                                                                       

    

41. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” ― Henry Ford
42. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” ― Oprah Winfrey
43. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
44. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” ― Colin Powell
45. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” ― Swami Sivananda
46. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” ― Brian Tracy
47. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ― Colin Powell
48. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” ― Anatole France
49. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” ― C.S. Lewis
50. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” ― Kim Garst

Motivational Quotes About Success

1. “I failed my way to success.” ― Thomas Edison
2. “Believe in yourself and everything is possible.”
3. “Failure is success in progress.” ― Albert Einstein                                                                                   

   

4. “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.”
5. “Applause waits on success.” ― Benjamin Franklin
6. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ― Walt Disney
7. “Education is the ticket to success.” ― Jaime Escalante
8. “The best revenge is massive success.” ― Frank Sinatra
9. “No one has ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.”
10. “Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.”
11. “Your success and happiness lies in you.” ― Helen Keller
12. “There are no gains without pains.” ― Benjamin Franklin
13. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” ― Japanese Proverb
14. “Surround yourself with those who are hungry for success.”
15. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’ m Possible’.”
16. “Work hard till the door of your car opens in a vertical way.”
17. “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”                                           

    

18. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.”
19. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ― Will Rogers
20. “Fame is cool but I believe in success.” ― Floyd Mayweather Jr.
21. “People won’t see your struggle, they will only see your success.”
22. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” ― Roger Staubach
23. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” ― Estee Lauder
24. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” ― Napoleon Hill
25. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” ― Malcolm X
26. “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” ― Mother Teresa
27. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”
28. “Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.” ― Frank Ocean
29. “Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph.”
30. “Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress.”
31. “Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath smile, and start again.”
32. “Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.” ― Patricia Cornwell
33. “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” ― Nelson Mandela
34. “The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
35. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” ― Michelle Obama
36. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ― Margaret Thatcher
37. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” ― Oscar Wilde
39. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.”
40. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ― Maya Angelou
41. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ― Jim Ryun
42. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” ― Mark Twain
43. “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” ― Nelson Mandela
44. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy
45. “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.”
46. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” ― Vince Lombardi
47. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” ― Dale Carnegie
48. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
49. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” ― Michael Jordan
50. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney
51. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ― Vidal Sassoon
52. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” ― Proverb
53. “Success Key: Keep company with people who push you to become the best version of yourself.”
54. “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey
55. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” ― David Brinkley

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