Inspiring Life Quotes About Success: A Collection to Motivate You

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management."

- Alexandra of The Productivity Zone

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

- Chanakya

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress you need discipline."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

- Coco Chanel

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure."

- Confucius

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."

- Montesquieu

"I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."

- Bette Midler

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach."

- Donald Trump

"Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us."

- Susan L. Taylor

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

- Nietzsche

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."

- Jimmy Carter

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice."

- Huda Kattan

"Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily."

- Auliq Ice

"Match your talent with opportunities that you are passionate about."

- Germany Kent

"When opportunities knock on your door, don't wait too long to decide because when you take too much time, the decision will be made for you — typically, this will not be to your benefit."

- Jen Alvares

"A rare skill can help you pay more bills than usual."

- David Angway

"Every day you spend at work is a foundation for your future."

- Abhishek Ratna

"No career counselor or internship will be able to help you with your career if you don't have an aim, purpose, and passion for what you want to do in life."

- Germany Kent

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."

- Brian Tracy

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

- Confucius

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it."

- Katharine Whitehorn

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."

- Hal Lancaster

"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

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You are never too small to make a difference."

- Greta Thunberg

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"You’ll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer."

- Harvey Mackay

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

- Arthur Ashe

"As I look back on my life, I realise that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."

- Dr. Roopleen

"No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

- Pittacus Lore

"Change course, but don’t give up."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

"Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail."

- Alicia Keys

"Never be afraid of failure. And don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best."

- Suki Waterhouse

"Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet."

- Robert H. Schuller

"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it."

- Lou Holtz

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."

- Sophocles

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

- James Cameron

"80% of Success is Showing Up"

- Woody Allen

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success is Walking from Failure to Failure"

- Winston Churchill

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."

- Napoleon Hill

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Don’t Wait for Opportunity, Create it"

- George Bernard Shaw

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence."

- Lisa M. Amos

"Success is Where Preparation & Opportunity Meet"

- Bobby Unser

"Success isn’t Always about Greatness. It’s about Consistency"

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Action is the Foundational Key to Success"

- Pablo Picasso

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do."

- Jim Rohn

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward."

- Steve Jobs

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"Either Run the Day or the Day Runs You"

- Jim Rohn

"The Real Risk is Doing Nothing"

- Denis Waitley

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

- John Maxwell

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."

- Tony Hsieh

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

- Pablo Picasso

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient."

- Gurbaksh Chahal

"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

"The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors."

- Napoleon Hill

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan."

- Jim Rohn

"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like."

- Mike Gafka

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"Take Risks Will Accomplish Nothing in Life"

- Muhammad Ali

"Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."

- Vaibhav Shah

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid."

- Larry Winget

"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret."

- Earl Nightingale

"Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending."

- Carl Bard

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?"

- Robert Schuller

"Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy."

- Jimmy Spithill

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it."

- Charles F. Kettering

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"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

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire."

- Jane Smiley

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

- Diane Ackerman

"In the End We Only Regret the Chances We Didn’t Take"

- Lewis Carroll

"People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one."

- Kevin Kline

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

- Robert Hughes

"You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing."

- Philippos

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."

- Bill Cosby

"I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing."

- Martha Stewart

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

- Francis Chan

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess."

- Dax Shepard

"Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means."

- Denzel Washington

"My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'"

- George Carlin

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

"You can’t have one without the other. Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

"Don’t be afraid to try and fail."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

"If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough."

"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"Success is not the absence of failure, it’s persistence through failure."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"Remember, success is not just about reaching a destination but about embracing the journey, learning from failures, and persisting despite obstacles."

"If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do."

"Success is not just one, straight line, but rather a bumpy journey filled with ups, downs and detours."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

"Success means different things to different people. For some, it means climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, or creating a brand or product that changes the world."

"When You Feel Like Quitting, Remember Why You Started"

"Great Things Never Come From Comfort Zones"