100 Success Quotes to Fuel Your Journey

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

“The progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”

— Earl Nightingale (definition of success)

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“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

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”

— Arnold Glasow

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas Edison

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas Edison

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

— Colin Powell

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success.”

— Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!”

— Marvin Phillips

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford

“Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.”

— Unknown

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

— Buddha

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese Proverb

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

— Sam Levenson

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”

— Chris Grosser

“Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

— Steve Jobs

“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.”

— Unknown

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

— Unknown

“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

— Malcolm X

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

— Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

— Aristotle

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

— John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit.”

— Benjamin Jowett

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

— John Quincy Adams

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

— John C. Maxwell

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

— Peter Drucker

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

— Peter Drucker

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”

— David Rockefeller

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

— Vidal Sassoon

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

— David Frost

“The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.”

— Barack Obama

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

— Bill Gates

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”

— Bill Copeland

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

— Albert Einstein

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

— Zig Ziglar

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

— Charles Darwin

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Socrates

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

— Steve Jobs

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

— Molière

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

— 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

“The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”

— Randy Pausch

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

— Ambrose Redmoon

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

— George Addair

“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”

— Japanese Proverb

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”

— Vince Lombardi

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

— Billie Jean King

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”

— Pelé

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

— Pablo Picasso

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”

— Abigail Van Buren

“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.”

— Joe Paterno

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

— John Wooden

“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.”

— Dennis S. Brown

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.”

— Wade Boggs

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama