98 Inspiring Quotes On Success

Success is a journey, and along the way, we often seek words of wisdom to inspire and guide us. Whether you're pursuing personal growth, professional achievements, or simply looking to lead a more fulfilling life, a well-phrased quote can be the spark that ignites your passion and determination. In this collection, we've gathered 98 of the most inspiring quotes on success, each offering a unique perspective on what it means to achieve and how to embrace the challenges and victories that come with it. These quotes are not just motivational; they are reminders that success is attainable, and sometimes all it takes is the right mindset to unlock your full potential. So, dive in and let these words of wisdom inspire you to chase your dreams and realize your 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. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ” - John R Wooden

3. “There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.” - Christopher Morley

4. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” - Beverly Sills

5. “If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. ” - David Brent

6. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal” - Thomas S. Monson

7. “The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.” - Michael Lewis

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

9. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” - Tony DeLiso

10. “When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” - Eloise Ristad

11. “Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently” - Karl Lagerfeld

12. “Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive” - Karl Lagerfeld

13. “There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness” - Steve Maraboli

15. “One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, "I love you", "I'm sorry", "I appreciate you", "I'm proud of you"...whatever you're feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it...cause a smile today for someone else...and give plenty of hugs.” - Steve Maraboli

16. “You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!” - Steve Maraboli

17. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” - Steve Maraboli

18. “Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.” - Steve Maraboli

19. “If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.” - Steven Wright

20. “He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.” - Ian Fleming

21. “You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.” - Benjamin Franklin

22. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci

23. “Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” - Gregg Harris

25. “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” - Ingrid Bergman

26. “Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.” - Marilyn Suttle

27. “It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

28. “Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.” - Rodolfo Costa

29. “The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.” - Noor Ahmad

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

31. “Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.” - David Mamet

32. “Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.” - Garth Stein

33. “For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view.” - Jill Shalvis

34. “An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.” - Steve Maraboli

35. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” - Criss Jami

36. “Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” - Criss Jami

37. “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

38. “Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.” - Steve Backley

39. “You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.” - Steve Backley

40. “Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.” - Steve Backley

41. “Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.” - Steve Backley

42. “It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.” - Steve Backley

43. “If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.” - Steve Backley

44. “Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.” - Steve Backley

45. “Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.” - Steve Backley

46. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” - Dr Suess

47. “Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.” - Steve Maraboli

48. “Blame is the creed of the disempowered.” - Steve Maraboli

49. “Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you” - Debra Anastasia

50. “Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.” - Rodolfo Costa

51. “What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

52. “Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.” - Julien Smith

53. “Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.” - Stephen Richards

54. “100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough; that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate power to change and shape your life? You ARE enough. You CAN change and shape your own life. Anyone who tells you different is simply lying. Your life has immeasurable potentiality for greatness; act accordingly.” - Steve Maraboli

55. “To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.” - Sidney Sheldon

56. “The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.” - Lorii Myers

57. “He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter” - John Grisham

58. “Don`t allow ignorance to further enslave your destiny.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

59. “Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

60. “While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.” - Steve Maraboli

61. “Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.” - Steve Maraboli

62. “God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

63. “Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

64. “Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

65. “Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.” - Wallace Wattles

66. “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

67. “Today you will have countless opportunities to take action towards any dream or goal you've ever had. No matter how long you’ve waited, it’s never too late. Let today be the day you give life to your dreams and goals. Don't throw away another day!” - Steve Maraboli

68. “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

69. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

71. “Moja putanja spiralnog je oblika i život je postupno odmata. Sudjelujem, svakodnevno gubim ponešto slobode, umaram glasnice, ali uspjet ću već zbog toga što nisam motiviran koristoljubljem.” - Jasna Horvat

72. “Elusive success is not the same as failure.” - Damon Throop

73. “Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.” - Steve Maraboli

74. “Triump is just a little umph added to try.” - Tim Owens

75. “No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

76. “It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again.” - Jonah Lehrer

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

78. “Failure is a greater teacher than success” - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

79. “When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.” - Charles Colton

80. “No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.” - Orrin Woodward

81. “I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs - yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I'd proved what I could do clean - how much more could I do if I was doped?” - David Millar

82. “There is no problem this universe can hand you that you aren't innately designed to solve. If it has been handed to you, it can be handled by you. This is the brilliant effectiveness of our design.” - Steve Maraboli

83. “Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.” - Chalene Johnson

84. “To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path” - Tahir Shah

85. “Don’t make excuses; rather, find support and resources to make good things happen for yourself, your family, your businesses, your community, and the world you live in.” - Anna Stevens

86. “success for me is simply empowerment to realize your humanity and then perhaps you achieve contentment. Wealth, power and fame are trappings rather than indicators of success.” - Joseph V. Angeles

87. “Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.” - Randall Munroe

88. “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

89. “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” - Steve Maraboli

90. “Let today be the day you finally stop having a conflict between your actions and your goals. When you align your greatest intent with purposeful action, you create a universal symphony serenading your success!” - Steve Maraboli

91. “Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

92. “Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

93. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

94. “God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.” - Shannon L. Alder

95. “Become your own success story, not someone else's.” - Stephen Richards

96. “Success is the understanding, release and maximization of capacity.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

97. “Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo.” - Lorii Myers

98. “The magic that turns dreams into reality is YOU! When you are inspired by a dream, create a good plan; that turns it into a goal. Then, live your life in a way that will bring that dream, that goal, to life. The magic is you.” - Steve Maraboli