215+ Best Success Quotes from the World’s Most Influential Figures

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” — John C. Maxwell

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” – Thomas J. Watson

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” – Tony Robbins

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

“At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.” – Erin Cummings

“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” – Godfrey Winn

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” – Brian Tracy

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” — Steve Jobs

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“To appreciate the success, you have to have had the failures.” – Nicole Kidman

“I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that’s success.” – Tim Cook

“Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.” – John C. Maxwell

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” — Nikola Tesla

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain; American writer, humourist, and essayist.

“Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.” — John C. Maxwell

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve

“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” – Walt Disney

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

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein

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

“Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.” – David A. Bednar

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

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. The make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson; best remembered for writing the Declaration of Independence, for serving as the third president of the United States.

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

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

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

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates

“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success but by the fear of failure.” – Larry Ellison, Oracle founder

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” — Napoleon Hill

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek

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

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale; English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” — John C. Maxwell

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Rohn; American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker.

“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.” – Richard Branson

““Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

“I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.” – Nikola Tesla

“The keys to success are patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.” – Jeff Bezos

“Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don’t wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.”
— John C. Maxwell

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” — Brian Tracy

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The path to success is to take massive determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” — Tony Robbins

“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation” – Zig Ziglar

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” — Peter F. Drucker

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” — Napoleon Hill

“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” – John Carmack

“It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.” – Peter Thiel; Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

“Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Napoleon Hill

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember: the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” — Zig Ziglar

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” — Henry Ford

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele

“Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.” – Michael Jordan

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failures.” – Sylvester Stallone

“You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel

“I never dreamed of success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

“Success takes communication, collaboration, and sometimes failure.” — Jessica Alba

“Disciplined, consistent, and persistent actions are more of a determining factor in the creation of success than any other combination of things.” – Grant Cardone

“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.” — Jim Rohn

“Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.” — Stephen Richards

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

“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

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

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.” — Colin Powell

“If one does not possess persistence, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.” – Napoleon Hill

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.” — John C. Maxwell

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” — Warren Buffett

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” — Jeff Bezos

“Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club.” – Richard Branson

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.” — Brian Tracy

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth

“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ” — Vince Lombardi

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” — Jim Rohn

“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale

“Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” — John C. Maxwell

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

“Success comes to those who become success conscious.” – Napoleon Hill

“Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!” – Tom Hopkins

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” — Thomas J. Watson

“I failed forward to success. I truly believe that life is a series of many attempts and many failures before we realize success. The important thing is to keep on trying.” – Mary Kay Ash

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” — Robert H. Schuller

“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” — Malcolm X

“The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra

“If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” — John Wooden; former American basketball coach and player, Nicknamed “the Wizard of Westwood.

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee

“Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action.” – Mel Robbins

“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” —Colin Powell

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” — Nelson Mandela

“For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield

“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.” – Mark Cuban

“Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.” – Dave Ramsey

“In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.” – Robert Greene

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Success is becoming what you want to be, and is attained by applying your energies to your work, and you will apply your energies in exact proportion to the intensity of your desire.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.” — Mark Cuban

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.” — David Brinkley

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs

“Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific simple habits that always lead to success.” – Robjert J. Ringer

“All successes begin with self-discipline. It starts with you.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” — Mark Caine

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.” — Jerry Rice

“Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win.” – Rihanna

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn

“I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” – Zig Ziglar

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” — Jim Rohn

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” – E.M. Gray

“The people who are successful decide they are going to be successful. They make that choice. And they make other choices. They decide to study hard. They decide to work hard. They decide to be the first person to get to work and the last to go home. They decide they are going to take on the hard jobs. Take on the challenges. They decide they are going to lead when no one else will.” – Jocko Willink

“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background: they are measured by the size of their thinking.” – David J. Schwartz

“Most people are too fretful, they worry too much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.” — Charlie Munger, formar vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” — Bill Gates

“Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don’t waste time – grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it’s not fun, move on.” — Richard Branson

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill

“The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” — Stephen Richards

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” — Bob Dylan

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.” — Ben Carson

“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.” — Dwayne Johnson

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier

“You have four choices in life: 1. Wish for it. 2. Whine for it. 3. Pout about not having it. 4. Work for it. Only one give you results.” – Andy Frisella

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.” – Gary Keller

“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” — Philippos

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” — Earl Nightingale

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Believe in yourself and have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” – William James

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

“The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.” — Fred Rogers

“Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.” – Kevin Hart

“I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.” – Lionel Messi

“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” — Jimmy Spithill

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” — T. Harv Eker

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.” — Steve Wozniak

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” — George Bernard Shaw

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” — Warren Buffett

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

“There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.” – Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant

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

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” – W.P. Kinsella; Canadian novelist

“The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!” – Dan Peña

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” — Charles F. Kettering

“What really makes successful entrepreneurs is not the nature of their idea, or the university they went to, but their actual character – their willingness to adapt their ideas and take advantage of possibilities they had not first imagined.” – Robert Greene

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston

“The real secret to success is enthusiasm.” – Walter Chrysler

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” – Lou Holtz

“The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin