Inspirational Quotes on Success

Here's a collection of motivational quotes about success. I hope these quotes inspire you to achieve your goals. Only you can make your dreams come true. Get started now and take the first step towards success. In time you will succeed and fulfill your vision.

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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
--David Frost

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be"
--George Sheehan

"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment."
--Ross Perot

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
--Herman Cain

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
--Elbert Hubbard

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--Robert Francis Kennedy

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
--William Feather

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
--Colin Powell

"Action is the foundational key to all success."
--Pablo Picasso

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
--Confucius

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."
--Author Unknown

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
--General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
--Confucius

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
--Plutarch

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you."
--Maya Angelou

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
--Henry Ford

"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

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
--Pablo Picasso

"There is no success without hardship."
--Sophocles

"His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust"
--Buddha

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
--Vince Lombardi

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."
--Mark Victor Hansen

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
--Arnold H. Glasgow

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
--David Bailey

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."
--Joe Paterno

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."
--Sven Goran Eriksson

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
--Woody Allen

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
--Foster C. Mcclellan

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
--Author Unknown

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come."
--C.S. Lewis

"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

"We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best."
--Miguel de Unamuno

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position."
--John Maxwell

"Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles."
--Walter Cronkite

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
--Thomas Edison

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
--Dale Carnegie

"As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
--Mark Twain

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
--Larry King

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."
--Lily Tomlin

"That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
--Jim Rohn

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
--Irving Berlin

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."
--Albert Einstein

"Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches."
--Donald A. Miller

"The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."
--Nancy Barcus

"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation."
--Jack Kinder

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

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

"To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you"
--Tony Dorsett

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
--George Bernard Shaw

"How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it."
--Robert Brault

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
--Vincent Van Gogh

"The road to success is always under construction"
--Lily Tomlin

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. 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."
--Zig Ziglar

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill

"The only way around is through."
--Robert Frost

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
--William Jennings Bryan

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
--Dale Carnegie

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