Success is the result of hard work, determination, and perseverance. Great minds throughout history have shared their wisdom on achieving success, offering timeless advice that motivates and empowers us to reach our goals. Here are 100 famous success quotes to inspire you on your journey.
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.” – Conrad Hilton
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
- “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
- “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
- “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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.” – Unknown
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
- “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” – W. Clement Stone
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
- “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
- “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers
- “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
- “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
- “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
- “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella
- “Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Arthur Ashe
- “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
- “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – Kenny Rogers
- “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
- “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is not about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
- “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.” – Pelé
- “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson
- “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
- “Success is about creating value for others.” – Unknown
- “Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” – Michelle Obama
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown
- “Success is not what you have, but who you are.” – Unknown
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication, and determination.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.” – Marva Collins
- “Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is watching.” – Unknown
- “Don’t let success go to your head and failure to your heart.” – Unknown
- “Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.” – Eminem
- “Success is a blend of preparation, hard work, and a little bit of luck.” – Unknown
- “Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Success is never owned; it is rented, and the rent is due every day.” – Rory Vaden
- “It’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you become.” – Bo Bennett
- “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
- “Success requires replacing excuses with effort.” – Unknown
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Success is not for the lazy.” – Unknown
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
- “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
- “Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “There is no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
- “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” – Eddie Cantor
- “Success doesn’t happen to you; it happens because of you.” – Grant Cardone
- “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” – Unknown
- “Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
- “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
Success is a journey, not a destination. These quotes remind us that success is built on perseverance, passion, and hard work. Let them motivate and guide you to achieve greatness in your personal and professional life.