Success Quotes
91 hand-picked lines on success
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill →
“The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra →
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
— Woody Allen →
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau →
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
— John D. Rockefeller →
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
— Maya Angelou →
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
— Aristotle →
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
— Chris Grosser →
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein →
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become.”
— Zig Ziglar →
“If you're not willing to risk the unusual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary.”
— Jim Rohn →
“The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.”
— Unknown →
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle →
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
— Frank Ocean →
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
— Estée Lauder →
“Where focus goes, energy flows.”
— Tony Robbins →
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
— Albert Schweitzer →
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
— Aristotle Onassis →
“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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
— George S. Patton →
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
— Henry Ford →
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
— Anonymous →
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
— John Wooden →
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”
— Zig Ziglar →
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan →
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
— Vince Lombardi →
“Some people dream of success while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
— Wayne Huizenga →
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
— Beverly Sills →
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.”
— Jim Rohn →
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Double your rate of failure.”
— Thomas J. Watson →
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.”
— Oprah Winfrey →
“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.”
— Gurbaksh Chahal →
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
— Vince Lombardi →
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered.”
— Orison Swett Marden →
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr. →
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis →
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
— Dale Carnegie →
“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 →
“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
— Vince Lombardi →
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting.”
— Wynn Davis →
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
— Alexander Graham Bell →
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
— David Brinkley →
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville →
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
— Colin R. Davis →
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein →
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
— Florence Nightingale →
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain →
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.”
— Reid Hoffman →
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
— Bruce Lee →
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you.”
— T. Harv Eker →
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
— Jim Rohn →
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
— Mark Caine →
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
— Napoleon Hill →
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
— Thomas A. Edison →
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
— Diogenes →
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
— Christian D. Larson →
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
— Tony Robbins →
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
— Zig Ziglar →
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
— John Wooden →
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
— Samuel Johnson →
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.”
— Charles F. Kettering →
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
— Conan O'Brien →
“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
— George S. Patton →
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
— Michael Jordan →
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
— Jim Rohn →
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
— Dale Carnegie →
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
— Benjamin Disraeli →
“A winner never stops trying.”
— Tom Landry →
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
— Theodore Roosevelt →
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote →
“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.”
— Japanese Proverb →
“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire.”
— Jane Smiley →
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
— Napoleon Hill →
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
— Wayne Dyer →
“If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.”
— Dave Weinbaum →
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
— Roger Staubach →
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
— Abraham Lincoln →
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
— Henry Ford →
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.”
— Conrad Hilton →
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
— Mark Twain →
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again.”
— Oprah Winfrey →
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
— Norman Vincent Peale →
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
— Earl Wilson →
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
— John F. Kennedy →
“You will never win if you never begin.”
— Helen Rowland →
“Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives.”
— Michelle Obama →
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
— Jimmy Johnson →
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
— Vince Lombardi →
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso →