140 Success Quotes to Inspire for Being Successful

Success Quotes are catalyst for Success. These Quotes provide that inspiration and motivation which accelerate your journey towards achieving goals and dreams. Here are Motivational & inspirational Success Quotes by famous authors and inspiring leaders.

Success Quotes

1. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

2. “Never regret whatever happen in life , good things give you happiness and bad things give you learning…” ~ Invajy

3. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ~ Stephen King

4. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” ~ Chris Grosser

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

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

7. “If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
8. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T.S. Eliot
9. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain

11. “If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
12. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine
14. “Happiness is not necessarily the absence of sufferings; it is the presence of peace of mind.” ~ Invajy

15. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
16. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
17. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” ~ Shiv Khera
18. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~ Colin Powell
19. “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
20. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung

Quotes about Success

21. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
22. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney
24. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’ . Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” ~ George Herbert
25. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” ~ George Whitefield
26. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” ~ W. Clement Stone
27. “Work hard, do your best and leave on god to do the rest.” ~ Invajy
28. “Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” ~ Kevin Ngo
29. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~ Sam Levenson
30. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stow

Inspiring Success Quotes

31. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
32. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ~ Stephen King
33. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ~ Invajy
34. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
35. “A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” ~ Albert Einstein

36. “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
37. “Failure is success in progress.” ~ Albert Einstein
38. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
39. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Anonymous
40. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
41. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” ~ Aristotle Onassis
42. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ~ Michael John Bobak
43. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
44. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” ~ Anonymous
45. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
46. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” ~ Richard Branson
47. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
48. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” ~ John D. Rockefeller Jr.
49. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
50. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn

Inspirational Quotes on Success

51. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~ Pablo Picasso
52. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” ~ Estee Lauder
53. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~ Vidal Sassoon
54. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
55. “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
56. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
57. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
58. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” ~ Bill Bradley
59. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” ~ Bill Gates
60. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.” ~ Doug Larson
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
62. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller
63. “It’s Not Whether You Get Knocked Down, It’s Whether You Get Up.” ~ Vince Lombardi
64. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” Steve Jobs
65. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—It is: Try to please everybody.” ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
66. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Henry Stanley Haskins
67. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ~ Chinese Proverb
68. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” ~ Robert Collier
69. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ~ Earl Nightingale
70. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~ Maya Angelou
71. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” ~ Tony Hsieh
72. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” ~ Henry Ford
73. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” ~ Philippos
74. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” ~ Napoleon Hill
75. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
76. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
77. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” ~ Winston Churchill
78. “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
79. “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
80. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” ~ Barack Obama

Key to Success Quotes

81. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
82. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
83. “The doors or success opens through the walls of hard work, dedication and perseverance.” ~ Invajy
84. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton
85. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” ~ Jim Rohn
86. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
87. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” ~ David Brinkley
88. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby
89. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison
90. “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
91. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” ~ Charles F. Kettering
92. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
93. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” ~ Anthony Robbins
94. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.” ~ Thomas Edison
95. “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” ~ Anonymous
96. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ~ John Wooden
97. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~ Walt Disney
98. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
99. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” ~ Oscar Wilde
100. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” ~ Bruce Feirstein
101. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” ~ Lolly Daskal
102. “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
103. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~ Albert Einstein
104. “When you reach at the peak of success and you have no one to celebrate along with, such success has not value.” ~ Invajy
105. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
106. If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.”~ Scott Adam
107. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” ~ Mark Twain
108. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” ~ Earl Nightingale
109. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” ~ Bill Gates
110. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” ~ Roger Staubach

Being Successful Quotes

111. “Success is the child of audacity.” ~ Benjamin Disrael
112. “The true success is the person who invented himself.” ~ Al Goldstein
113. “Success at the cost of health has no meaning.” ~ Invajy
114. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ~ Steve Jobs
115. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ~ Bruce Lee
116. “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” ~ Nelson Mandela
117. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I  took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost
118. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” ~ Malcolm X
119. “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
120. “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” ~ Jane Smiley
121. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” ~ Bo Bennett
122. “I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.” ~ Calvin Klein
123. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun
124. “90% of your plans are going to fail no matter what you do. Get used to it.” ~ Mark Manson
125. “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
126. “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand
127. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford
128. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis
129. “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” ~ Wilfred Peterson
130. “The road to success is always under construction.” ~ Lily Tomlin
131. “Impatience never commanded success.” ~ Edwin H. Chapin
132. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
133. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
134. “Success is never accidental.” ~ Jack Dorsey
135. “The best revenge is massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra
136. “​​Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” ~ Vera Wang
137. “Success is best when it’s shared.” ~ Howard Schultz
138. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~ George S. Patton
139. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” ~ C. S. Lewis
140. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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