100 Inspirational Quotes of Success to Motivate Your Journey

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Stephen McCranie

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Robert Collier

"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

"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

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Albert Einstein

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Colin Powell

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

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

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Thomas Edison

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Chris Grosser

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything."

- Warren Buffett

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"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."

- Ariana Huffington

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration."

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"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

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph."

- Zig Ziglar

"When you change what you believe is possible, you change what becomes possible."

- Alex Banayan

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- James Cameron

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."

- Coach John Wooden

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Ingrid Bergman

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

- Zig Ziglar

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Success is dependent on effort."

- Sophocles

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Steve Jobs

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

- Jim Lovell

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

- Confucius

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"They succeed, because they think they can."

- Virgil

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"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 Pujols

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

- Christopher Morley

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

- Steve Maraboli

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- John Wooden

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

- Thomas J. Watson

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Albert Einstein

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

- Bill Gates

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble."

- Shah Rukh Khan

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

- Mike Ditka

"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."

- J. Paul Getty

"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

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

- Bill Gates

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Mel Robbins

"The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better."

- Seth Godin

"Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you."

- Mike Rowe

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"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

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

- Saint Augustine

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."

- Sun Tzu

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

- Andrew Carnegie

"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."

- Ronald Reagan

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

- Maria Montessori

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

- Salvador Dali

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

- Godfrey Winn

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

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

"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

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

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

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

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

"Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

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

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

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

"There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

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

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."

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

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

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

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

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

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

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

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

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

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

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

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

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

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

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

"Success does not lie in results but in efforts, being the best is not so important, doing the best is all that matters."