Success quotes are inspirational sayings that motivate people to work hard and achieve goals. For example “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey and “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein. The purpose of these phrases is to provide motivation and inspiration, help listeners withstand hardship and strive for greatness.
These inspirational quotes and famous words of wisdom will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything. Here’s to your success!
“All our dreams can come true; if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
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1. “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” — Wayne Gretzky
2. “I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian – or just being in show business, is really more accurate.” — Steve Martin
3. “When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.” — Mason Cooley
4. “Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
5. “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.” — Henry Ward Beecher
6. “The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.” — Marianne Williamson
7. “We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.” — Jimmy Carter
8. “Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.” — David Attenborough
9. “I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.” — Derek Jeter
10. “No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.” — J. Paul Getty
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11. “Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.” — Tyler Perry
12. “When I was a model – and I was all during high school and college – you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That’s how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.” — Martha Stewart
13. “Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.” — Richard Branson
14. “Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.” — Richard Branson
15. “People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.” — Andrew Yang
16. “I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.” — Gordon Ramsay
17. “It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.” — Max Planck
18. “Success is best when it’s shared.” — Howard Schultz
19. “The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.” — John Maynard Keynes
20. “I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
21. “If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.” — Mark Cuban
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22. “But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.” — Herodotus
23. “In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.” — Isoroku Yamamoto
24. “If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine’s Day.” — Don Rickles
25. “I’m always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It’s not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.” — Ali Wong
26. “Humility is becoming a lost art, but it’s not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.” — Harvey Mackay
27. “It’s only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.” — Harvey Mackay
28. “I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.” — Nick Saban
29. “Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.” — Jay-Z
30. “Too many executives I’ve met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they’ve come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.” — Patrick Lencioni
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31. “I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going ‘Why? Why are you doing all this?’” — Tyra Banks
32. “The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success.” — Adam Grant
33. “To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn’t want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.” — Valentina Tereshkova
34. “To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy just yet. I think success in the American interest is some level of assurance that it’s not going to be a place that again leads to an attack on the American homeland.” — Pete Buttigieg
35. “The concept of the ‘good ol’ days’ must be one of our society’s biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.” — Bo Bennett
36. “There’s no success story. Everybody’s got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.” — Bernie Mac
37. “I know it’s not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, ‘That’s the end of that.’” — Ralph Lauren
38. “We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.” — Whoopi Goldberg
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” – Charles Schwab
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” – Harvey MacKay
“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” – Montesquieu
“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there — you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiring success quotes are one way to help stay positive, productive, and happy as you move along your journey. Even saying one daily motivational quote in the mirror each more can make a huge impact on your day-to-day life.
