149 Success Quotes

Success is a journey, not a destination, and along the way, we often seek inspiration and wisdom to keep us motivated. Whether you're facing obstacles, reaching for new heights, or simply in need of a little boost, the right words can have a profound impact. In this post, we've curated a collection of 149 top success quotes from renowned thinkers, leaders, and visionaries. These quotes are sure to ignite your passion, reinforce your commitment, and inspire your pursuit of greatness. Let's dive in and uncover the timeless wisdom that can propel us toward our goals.

1. “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” - Madeleine Albright

2. “Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.” - Lance Armstrong

3. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” - Abraham Lincoln

4. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” - Dalai Lama XIV

5. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ” - Mark Twain

6. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” - Truman Capote

7. “The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. ” - Cecil B. DeMille

8. “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.” - Colin Powell

9. “Success is a poor teacher” - Robert Kiyosaki

10. “Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.” - Isobelle Carmody

11. “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” - Henry David Thoreau

12. “Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.” - Zig Ziglar

13. “Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her” - Karl Lagerfeld

14. “Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.” - Steve Maraboli

15. “At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.” - Steve Maraboli

16. “Your agreement with reality defines your life.” - Steve Maraboli

17. “Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It’s inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.” - Steve Maraboli

18. “Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.” - Steve Maraboli

19. “Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!” - Steve Maraboli

21. “Action is the universal language of success.” - Steve Maraboli

22. “What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!” - Steve Maraboli

23. “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “ We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of "success" from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game. ” - Randy Komisar

25. “Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..” - Bhadra

26. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” - Francis Chan

27. “Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.” - Monty Hall

28. “Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29. “If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.” - Steve Maraboli

30. “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.” - Flannery O'Connor

31. “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. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” - Michelle Obama

32. “We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.” - José Ortega y Gasset

33. “It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” - Winston S. Churchill

34. “People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.” - Marilyn Suttle

35. “What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.” - Steve Maraboli

36. “Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.” - Alexandra Ripley

37. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” - Will Rogers

38. “We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.” - Steve Maraboli

39. “Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.” - Steve Maraboli

40. “If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.” - Steve Maraboli

41. “Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.” - A.L. Kennedy

42. “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” - Steve Maraboli

43. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” - Steve Maraboli

44. “No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!” - John Calvin

45. “When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.” - Lorii Myers

46. “Life is a journey worth making.” - Diva Jefferson

47. “Man is an end in himself.” - Ayn Rand

48. “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.” - Derrick Bell

49. “Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set.” - Steve Maraboli

50. “I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probablybecome as ordinary as they expect you to be.” - Kelly Cutrone

51. “If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.” - Ian Fleming

52. “Fortunate are those who take the first steps.” - Paulo Coelho

53. “Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.” - Alain De Botton

54. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” - Mark Cain

55. “If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.” - Steve Backley

56. “There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?” - Steve Backley

57. “It is action that creates motivation.” - Steve Backley

58. “The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.” - Steve Backley

59. “Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure” - Chris Stocking

60. “To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.” - Maurice Young

61. “The way to be nothing is to do nothing” - Nathaniel Howe

62. “Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.” - Jared Diamond

63. “Destiny, Talent, Calling, purpose. each of us came with our Talents, Purpose and Calling. What you do with them is the summary of your life here on earth.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

64. “I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

65. “Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

66. “Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

67. “So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” - Charles Dickens

68. “The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.” - Kresley Cole

69. “When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.” - Stephen Richards

70. “Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.” - Steve Maraboli

71. “Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.” - Steve Maraboli

72. “The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence” - John Milton Lawrence

73. “The secret code of success is patience,a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

74. “A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

75. “On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

76. “Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.” - Steve Maraboli

77. “The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

78. “We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

79. “You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

80. “He is the only option for better living.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

81. “I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

82. “Nothing succeeds like success.” - Alexandre Dumas

83. “I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.” - Ke$ha

84. “The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.” - Malcolm Gladwell

85. “A Truthful Evaluation Of Yourself Gives Feedback For Growth and Success” - Brenda Johnson Padgitt

86. “For Kim did nothing with an immense success.” - Rudyard Kipling

87. “Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.” - Stephen Richards

88. “You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.” - Lights Poxlietner

89. “There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.” - Winston S. Churchill

90. “Los resultados que obtenemos en un deporte, en el estudio de determinada materia, en oratoria, en debates y hasta en relaciones humanas y amorosas están determinados por nuestras últimas experiencias. El que sufrió un revés, cree erróneamente que siempre será así y mantiene esa etiqueta. Es una ley de psicología: toda información nueva, al penetrar en la mente, tiende a sustituir la información antigua relacionada con el mis tema. Así, la clave para ser diestro en algo no es sólo practicar cuando sale bien sino intentarlo una y otra vez cuando sale mal… Un hombrevale no por los triunfos que ha acumulado sino por las veces que se ha levantado de sus fracasos.” - Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez

91. “An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” - Brian Tracy

92. “Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.” - Brian Tracy

93. “remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT!” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

94. “You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

95. “Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter” - Robert Greene

96. “A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.” - Anthony Robbins

97. “The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil.” - Ogwo David Emenike

98. “Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.” - Steve Maraboli

99. “Principle of Change #3: Vision gives change meaningful direction.” - Brett Blumenthal

100. “Principle of Change #4: Planning for change is planning to succeed.” - Brett Blumenthal

101. “If you say you can't, you won't!The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.” - Jody Provost

102. “As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.” - Theodor Adorno

103. “I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success...victory; it has my complete focus.” - Spuds Crawford

104. “Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.” - Jon Huntsman

105. “Don't throw away another day! No more procrastinating! Only YOU can make it happen. So, UN-ASS the couch and make it happen!” - Steve Maraboli

106. “In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.” - Melissa McPhail

107. “Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.” - Orrin Woodward

108. “Love forever, love is free” - Rosen Topuzov

109. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” - Dr Roopleen

110. “Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

111. “A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

112. “Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

113. “No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!” - Stephen Richards

114. “The Six W’s: Work will win when wishing won’t” - Todd Blackledge

115. “We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.” - Susan Sontag

116. “Behind a great success, there was a great failure” - Michael Hermanto

117. “Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.” - Steve Maraboli

118. “A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.” - Bryant McGill

119. “Don't let your 'bad pride' prevent you from moving forward on an opportunity that will allow you to showcase your 'good pride'.” - Bobby Darnell

120. “Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.” - Wayde Goodall

121. “Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.” - Wayde Goodall

122. “If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead.” - Ali-Ibne-Abu Talib

123. “I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.” - Daisaku Ikeda

124. “The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial, external achievement. And most of us carry all kinds of richness which we are unable to translate into that language.” - Alain De Botton

125. “Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained.” - Sakshi Chetana

126. “There are several paths to success; We are given multiple opportunities to achieve our potential throughout our lives. Some get there a little faster than others. But one thing is for sure; NO ONE gets there without first having a goal then taking action and LOTS of it!” - Rachael Bermingham

127. “Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

128. “The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.” - Wayde Goodall

129. “Read to lead in order to succeed.” - Habeeb Akande

130. “I realized that success is not a one-time act or a moment of luck and that "Overnight Success" is never true. Success is created through and by creating a habit caused by proper self-discipline.” - Jan Mckingley Hilado

131. “Christ is in me...Christ is my life, this is why i live the higher life...and the reason why i am more than a conqueror!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

132. “All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals.” - Anna Stevens

133. “Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.” - Mary McLeod Bethune

134. “You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.” - Steve Maraboli

135. “Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.” - Steve Maraboli

136. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

137. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

138. “Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

139. “Sow the right words! Think the good thought.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

140. “Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

141. “Shine forth your light before all beings.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

142. “The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

143. “So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.” - Nicholas D. Kristof

144. “Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!” - Sujit Lalwani

145. “An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

146. “If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.” - Ted Atoka

147. “There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.” - Bob Ross

148. “Instructions for successful living: Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Repeat.” - Steve Maraboli

149. “There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.” - Steve Maraboli