Here are 170 of the best success quotes I could find. And please keep in mind: success is more than material, it’s a state of mind, a direction. Enjoy!
Success is never accidental. Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it. Scott Adam
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years. Bob Brown
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli
Forget the past. Nelson Mandela
The true success is the person who invented himself. Al Goldstein
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. Nelson Mandela
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. Malcolm X
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar
Slow and steady is better than fast and shaky. Maxime Lagacé
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not in what you have, but who you are. Bo Bennett
I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful. Calvin Klein
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction. Bessie Stanley
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We all want “success”, right?
I remember when I was young, I admired people who were confident, loud and materially successful.
To me, having a big house, a beautiful car and stuff meant “success”.
Happily, my definition changed over the years and became much more about internal success.
What is internal success?
It’s having inner peace, being happy, working on something you love, being generous and kind, having a positive impact on people around you, etc.
After all, when we think about it, it’s much more sustainable to have an inner scorecard than an external one.
Trying to keep up and comparing ourselves with others is a sure way to burnout. There is always someone else faster, richer and better than you are.
However, when we stop playing the game and stop trying to impress, we find our path and life becomes more meaningful.
That’s what “success” means to me.
What is your definition?
The Best Success Quotes
A minute’s success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning
Failure is success in progress. Albert Einstein Click to tweet
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs. Barack Obama
90% of your plans are going to fail no matter what you do. Get used to it. Mark Manson
No-one knows what he can do until he tries. Publilius Syrus
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything. Warren Buffett
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. Leonardo da Vinci
The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones – this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important. Thich Nhat Hanh
The maximum success is reached when you are never busy. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields Click to tweet
I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard Swope
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. Paul J. Meyer
My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means. Al Lewis
Success is leaving a good path, or even better, leaving no path at all. Maxime Lagacé
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe
My success is not who I am. Judith Guest Click to tweet
Mediocrity always measures success by money. Thibaut
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. Stephen McCranie
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. Criss Jami
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Part 2. Success Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Success Quotes
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Tony Robbins
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things. Walt Disney Click to tweet
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Sam Walton (Walmart)
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind. Albert Einstein
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. Mother Teresa
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi
Success is my only option, failure’s not. Eminem
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Alva Edison
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Pablo Picasso
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs. Henry Ford Click to tweet
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
There are no gains without pains. Benjamin Franklin
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell
80% of success is showing up. Woody Allen
Nothing succeeds like success. Alexandre Dumas
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 Schweitzer
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. Bill Gates (Microsoft)
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. John D. Rockefeller
Success is a great deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. Mark Twain
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela
If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
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Short Success Quotes
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To fly, we have to have resistance. Maya Lin
To succeed, we must first believe that we can. Michael Korda Click to tweet
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Unknown
Nothing fails like success. Alan Watts
Measure your success according to fun and creativity. Anita Roddick
Applause waits on success. Benjamin Franklin
You sleep on a win and you’ll wake up with a loss. Conor McGregor
Clarity equals success. Greg McKeown
Success is the sum of details. Harvey S. Firestone
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. Bo Bennett
One fails forward toward success. Charles Kettering
To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Click to tweet
Be brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious. Unknown
Success has always been a great liar. Friedrich Nietzsche
Success can’t be forced. Loretta Young
Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account. James Clear
You don’t have to show people how successful you are. Martin Yan
Success is the inevitable byproduct of learning. Naval Ravikant
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. Napoleon Hill
Success is the fruit of concentration. Navjot Singh Sidhu
There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. Paul Bryant
Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki
Success is the sweetest revenge. Vanessa Williams
Success is a mindset, not a trophy. Lance Allred
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Inspirational Success Quotes
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Richard Bach Click to tweet
Become so curious and obsessed with one thing that you forget everything else. Follow it, drink it, dive deep in it, master it. Remarkable results need remarkable actions. Maxime Lagacé
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. George Sheehan
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes
You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. Lou Holtz
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am able to change it in positive ways. Maxine Hong Kingston
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James A. Froude
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk. J. C. Penney
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings. Margaret Mead
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. Margaret Thatcher
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert Kiyosaki
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel
Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold H. Glasow
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. Bo Bennett
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. Denis Waitley
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Bill Bradley
Why be a king, when you can be a god? Eminem Click to tweet
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Deep Success Sayings
The wise do things slowly, because they love it. Maxime Lagacé
Conquer, but don’t triumph. Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Click to tweet
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. Henry Ward Beecher
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. Elbert Hubbard
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? Larry Flynt
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. To comprehend a nectar – requires sorest need. Emily Dickinson
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. John C. Maxwell (See also: 5 Incredibly Effective Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder, inc.com)
Practice like you’ve never won. Perform like you’ve never lost. Bernard F. Asuncion
There is only one kind of success that really matters: the success of transforming ourselves, transforming our afflictions, fear, and anger. This is the kind of success, the kind of power, that will benefits us and others without causing any damage. Thich Nhat Hanh
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert Click to tweet
For some, success and happiness mean popularity, noise, having the spotlight. For others, it means peace, wisdom, silence, doing what’s important to you and making an impact. Maxime Lagacé
Success is when you can spend 90 percent of your time doing the things you want to do and only 10 percent doing things you have to do. Most people’s lives are just the opposite. Scott Spangler
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. Tennessee Williams
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. Walter Scott
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little. Mason Cooley
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
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Wise Success Sayings
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker Click to tweet
The success you see others experiencing is rarely as sexy as it appears to be. James Clear
The results of success are usually public and highly visible, but the process behind success is often private and hidden from view. James Clear
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol
Real successful people are the ones who don’t even bother about obstacles because they know exactly what they want. Maxime Lagacé
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. Sam Ewing
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. Gary Keller
Best predictor of success: Innate ability to allocate time properly. Keith Rabois
Success is created by doing the basics, to a high standard, consistently. Thibaut
Success comes down to choosing the pain of discipline over the ease of capitulation. Thibaut
Are you chasing success? Chase good habits instead. Maxime Lagacé
“Winning” is a matter of perception. Some will check the scoreboard, others will check the progress. What are you checking? Maxime Lagacé
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become. Ryan Holiday
If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying. Bruce Lee
Show me someone for whom success is less important than the manner in which it is achieved. Of concern for the means, rather than the ends, of their actions…I want to see him. This is the person I have looked for a long time, the true genius. Epictetus
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is. Brianna Wiest
If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful. Derek Sivers
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben Jonson
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. Arnold H. Glasow
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry A. Kissinger
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. Max Planck
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. Larry Ellison
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Part 3. Conclusion
Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. David McCullough Jr Click to tweet
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Table Of Contents
Part 1
Top 15 Images
Best Quotes
Part 2
Success Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Conclusion
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