60 Success Quotes To Inspire

Success is a journey marked by dedication, perseverance, and moments of inspiration. Whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, building your own business, or working toward personal goals, the right words at the right time can make all the difference. In this post, we've gathered a handpicked selection of the top 60 success quotes to motivate and inspire you. These powerful quotes from renowned leaders, thinkers, and achievers are designed to uplift your spirits and propel you forward on your path to success. Dive in and let these timeless words of wisdom ignite your passion and determination!

1. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” - Winston S. Churchill

2. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” - Dale Carnegie

3. “Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that's dynamic and expressivee--that's what's good for you if you're at all serious in your aims. William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.” - Tennessee Williams

4. “Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.” - Junot Diaz

5. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ” - Bill Cosby

6. “If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.” - John Dalton

7. “Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.” - Dorothy Day

8. “The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.” - Steve Maraboli

9. “With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.” - Ezra Pound

10. “Running isn't a sport for pretty boys...It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all that you can ask for.” - Paul Maurer

11. “Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.” - Steve Maraboli

12. “As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.” - James Kennedy

13. “If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.” - Alain De Botton

14. “Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.” - Steve Maraboli

15. “Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” - Rodolfo Costa

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

17. “Stuff your brain with knowledge.” - Karl Lagerfeld

18. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” - Criss Jami

19. “Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.” - Steve Backley

20. “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

21. “the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!” - William Hazlitt

22. “(Ulrich, 100 year old Bulgarian man): in Solo, by Rana Dasgupta"Ulrich has sometimes wondered whether his life has been a failure. Once he would have looked at all this and said yes. But now he does not know what it means for a life to succeed or fail. How can a dog fail its life, or a tree? A life is just a quantity; and he can no more see failure in it than he can see failure in a pile of earth, or a bucket of water. Failure and success are foreign terms to such blind matter." (p. 160)” - Rana Dasgupta

23. “Happy people produce. Bored people consume.” - Stephen Richards

24. “It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.” - Eiji Yoshikawa

25. “You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,” - E.A. Bucchianeri

27. “The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition.” - Andrew Brown

28. “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

29. “allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...]There is no royal road to perfection.” - Frederick Douglass

30. “Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

31. “Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.” - Isra

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

33. “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

34. “Do not give hope where there is none.Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.” - Rosen Topuzov

35. “There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.” - Dr Roopleen

36. “Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.” - Eric Thomas

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

38. “The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.” - Orrin Woodward

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

40. “Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.” - Bryant McGill

41. “I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.” - Orrin Woodward

42. “Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.” - Lionel Suggs

43. “There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.” - Joe R. Lansdale

44. “Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

45. “I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.” - Tana French

46. “A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.” - Habeeb Akande

47. “The secret of success is this all-powerful creative energy within, which human beings often sleep over throughout their entire lives.” - Sakshi Chetana

48. “The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.” - Aravind Adiga

49. “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

50. “If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.” - Joban Singh Bal

51. “If I am to believe everything that I see in the media, happiness is to be six foot tall or more and to have bleached teeth and a firm abdomen, all the latest clothes, accessories, and electronics, a picture-perfect partner of the opposite sex who is both a great lover and a terrific friend, an assortment of healthy and happy children, a pet that is neither a stray nor a mongrel, a large house in the right sort of postcode, a second property in an idyllic holiday location, a top-of-the-range car to shuttle back and forth from the one to the other, a clique of ‘friends’ with whom to have fabulous dinner parties, three or four foreign holidays a year, and a high-impact job that does not distract from any of the above. There are at least three major problems that I can see with this ideal of happiness. (1) It represents a state of affairs that is impossible to attain to and that is in itself an important source of unhappiness. (2) It is situated in an idealised and hypothetical future rather than in an imperfect but actual present in which true happiness is much more likely to be found, albeit with great difficulty. (3) It has largely been defined by commercial interests that have absolutely nothing to do with true happiness, which has far more to do with the practice of reason and the peace of mind that this eventually brings. In short, it is not only that the bar for happiness is set too high, but also that it is set in the wrong place, and that it is, in fact, the wrong bar. Jump and you’ll only break your back.” - Neel Burton

52. “Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others.” - Lao Tzu

53. “Stop walking through the motions of a conditioned routine and start consciously taking action on your visualized intent.” - Steve Maraboli

54. “Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

55. “The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.” - Paul Sloane

56. “The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

57. “WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine ExcellentRunners!” - Sujit Lalwani

58. “All success comes through other people.” - Bryant McGill

59. “Giving is the key to all success in all applications of human life.” - Bryant McGill

60. “This is about me being ready to succeed.When I win in my mind, I truly win.Anything worthwhile deserves some time.I will do it this time! No excuses!” - Lorii Myers