100+ Success Quotes & Sayings

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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.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Terry Pratchett

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

Francis Chan

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

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

John C. Maxwell

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.

Richard Feynman

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

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

Wayne Gretzky

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

Mark Twain

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

Robert F. Kennedy

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There’s no abiding success without commitment.

There’s no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

Sidney Sheldon

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Antonio Machado

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Criss Jami

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Jerry Lewis

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Sigmund Freud

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Beverly Sills

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Patrick Swayze

 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

 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

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Criss Jami

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Robert Greene

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

Lance Armstrong

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

Robert Greene

Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don’t want to do it.

Anonymous

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Robert Greene

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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 Jr.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

Steve Maraboli

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Thomas A. Edison

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

Oprah Winfrey

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Suzy Kassem

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

Steve Maraboli

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

Dalai Lama XIV

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