100+ Success Quotes & Sayings

100+ Success Quotes & Sayings

167 Quotes

Success is a state of mind and that everyone wants. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Here are some inpirational quotes about success from famous authors are meant to inspire and help others get the motivation to achieve a measure of their own success.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Dorothy Day

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

George S. Patton Jr.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Helen Keller

Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!

Dr. Seuss

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

Dr. Seuss

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Ellen DeGeneres

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

J.M. Barrie

Success is...knowing your purpose in life,growing to reach your maximum potential, andsowing seeds that benefit others.

John C. Maxwell

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madeleine K. Albright

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Francis Chan

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

Garth Stein

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Henry Ford

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Oscar Wilde

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.

Israelmore Ayivor

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Jason Mraz

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Jean Vanier

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Jerry Lewis

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

Rodolfo Costa

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

Steve Maraboli

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

Steve Maraboli

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

Steve Maraboli

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

Jim Rohn

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

Joe Namath

Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be.

John A. Widtsoe

If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.Love grows when people serve.

John Ortberg

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

Steve Maraboli

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