Welcome to a comprehensive collection of 156 powerful motivational quotes for success. Each quote reflects the importance of being strong, both in moments of challenge and in pursuit of your goals. They highlight the significance of perseverance, passion, a positive outlook on success, courage, and self-belief.
These success quotes serve as a reminder that the right mindset for success can be a powerful tool. They’re not just for reading; they’re for absorbing, for reflecting on, and for implementing in your daily life.
Whether you’re facing a tough decision, starting a new venture, or simply looking for a daily dose of motivation, these quotes are here to guide you. Let them remind you that with the right attitude, a strong will, and an unwavering belief in yourself, success is within your reach.
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.” – Brian Tracy
- “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland
- “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Winston Churchill
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
- “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
- “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
- “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore N. Vail
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
- “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown
- “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
- “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Kafka
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” – Arnold H. Glasow
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
- “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
- “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
- “Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” – Shah Rukh Khan
- “The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Wilferd Peterson
- Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers
- “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
- “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
- “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
- “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
- Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
- “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
- “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Unknown
- “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” – Vera Wang
- “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
- “You have to think big to be big.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.” – George Washington
- The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
- “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injustice.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous
- “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
- “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” – Anonymous
- “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
- “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Anonymous
- “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” – Anonymous
- “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb
- “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Anonymous
- “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
- “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Anonymous
- “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein
- “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal
- “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” – Anonymous
- “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
- “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
- “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
- “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
- “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
- “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
- “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 place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
- “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
- “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 harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown
- “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.” – Unknown
- “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Unknown
- “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” – Unknown
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
- “See something. Believe in it, and go get it.” – Inky Johnson
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
