Inspiring 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

"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

"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

"Success is walking from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Action is the foundational key to success."

- Pablo Picasso

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"80% of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- John Maxwell

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

- Thomas J. Watson

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

- Albert Einstein

"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen."

- Dax Shepard

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

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

- Robert Hughes

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

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Gurbaksh Chahal

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Jimmy Spithill

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

- Philippos

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Bill Cosby

"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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Greta Thunberg

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

- Stephen McCranie

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Confucius

"You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"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

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

- Alan Alda

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Thomas Paine

"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

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

- Milton Berle

"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

"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

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

- LES BROWN

"Goals must stretch and test your cognitive skills for results achievement."

- Invajy

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"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 biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

- Chanakya

"If you don’t have a goal in mind, you can’t expect to achieve it."

- Frank Sonnenberg

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Mike Gafka

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

- James Cameron

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Mel Robbins

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Disney

"Life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Dr. Mae Jemison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

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

- George Addair

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"

- Brian Tracy

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- William James

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"We become what we think about."

- Earl Nightingale

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"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

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Maya Angelou

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Robert H. Schuller

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Brian Tracy

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy."

- Dr. Henry Link

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another…"

- J.A. Tran

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today."

- Will Rogers

"Don’t wait for opportunity, create it."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Jim Rohn

"The real risk is doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

"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."

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

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

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

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

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

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

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

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

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

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

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

"When you feel like quitting, remember why you started."

"You can do it even better than you think you can."