100 Awesome Success Quotes

by Garin Kilpatrick in Mindset, Motivation, Resources, Social Media 13

What you are about to read is probably the best list of success quotes in the world.
In writing this post I read at least a few thousand quotes including all the quotes in the top ten
web pages in Google for the search success quotes.
While reading these pages I pulled out the best quotes that pack the most punch, and then I
distilled the list down to the very best 100.
Success quotes offer a great way to get insight into secrets of success from some of the most
successful people throughout history.
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1. Action is the foundational key to all success.
~ Pablo Picasso
2. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at
him.
~ David Brinkley
3. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
~ Abraham Lincoln
4. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
~ Lydia M. Child
5. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping
stones to success.
~ Dale Carnegie
6. Failure is success if we learn from it.

~ Malcolm Forbes
7. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most
frequently makes for success.
~ Dale Carnegie
8. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn
9. How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough
to eat and escaped being eaten?
~ Logan P. Smith
10. When you want to succeed as bad you want to breathe, then youll be successful.
~ Eric Thomas
11. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
~ Michael Jordan
12. In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
~ Anthony J. DAngelo
13. Most people give up just when theyre about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard
line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
~ Ross Perot
14. The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The
sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
~Dale Carnegie
15. When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it
can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
~Orison Swett Marden
16. Success doesnt come to you, you go to it.
~Marva Collins
17. 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.
~Vincent T. Lombardi
18. Success is a journey, not a destination.
~ Ben Sweetland
19. If you care at all,youll get some results. If you care enough, youll get incredible results.
~ Edward Simmons
20. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
21. The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world wont work if you wont.
~ John Johnson
22. Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road.
~ Laing Burns, Jr.
23. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
~ Woody Allen
24. Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
~ Al Bernstein
25. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
26. 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
27. People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
~ Dale Carnegie
28. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
~ Dale Carnegie
29. To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.
~ Paul Cummings
30. As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
31. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.
~ Jim Rohn
33. Failure is success if we learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes
34. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give
for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~ Henry Ford
35. The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
~ Benjamin Franklin
36. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. 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
38. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts
~ Winston S. Churchill
39. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
40. The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of
long range.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
41. Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
~ Thomas Edison
42. The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first
~ Mark Twain
43. You should pursue your passion. If youre passionate about something and you work
hard, then I think you will be successful.
~ Pierre Omidyar (Founder of eBay)
44. You have to really believe in what youre doing, be passionate enough about it so that you
will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then youll be
successful.
~ Pierre Omidyar (Founder of eBay)
45. Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase a self-made man is a myth
all along the way we need support.
~ Issy Sharp (Four Seasons Hotels)
46. I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
~ Estee Lauder

47. To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

~ Henry Heinz (H.J. Heinz Company)
48. Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.
~Denis Waitley
49. Success means doing the best we can with what we have.
~ Zig Ziglar
50. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
~ Zig Ziglar
51. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we
can be.
~ Zig Ziglar
52. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
~ Dr. Brothers
53. The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The
sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
~ Dale Carnegie
54. When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it
can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
~ Orison Swett Marden
55. 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.
~V. Lombardi
56. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
57. The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
58. Unless youre willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success wont
happen.
~ Phillip Adams
59. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who
gives himself to his work, body and soul.
~ Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
60. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
~ Euripides
61. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being
a conformist.
~ J. Paul Getty
62. The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to
one problem without growing weary.
~ Thomas Edison
63. Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep
moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.
~ Conrad Hilton
64. The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures dont like to do. They
dont like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of
their purpose.
~ E.M. Gray
65. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

~ Seneca
66. The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
~ Rosabeth Moss Cantor
67. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other.
~Abraham Lincoln
68. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
~ Lydia Child
69. Dont aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come
naturally.
~ David Frost
70. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
~ Bill Cosby
71. Most people give up just when theyre about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard
line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
~ Ross Perot
72. Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on
intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
~ Sloan Wilson
73. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cant lose.
~ Bill Gates
74. Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
~ Oscar Wilde
75. Success is dependent on effort.
~ Sophocles
76. Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
77. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~ William Feather
78. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get
along with people.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
79. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.
~ Earl Nightingale
80. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
~ Dale Carnegie
81. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person
you believe you were meant to be
~ George Sheehan
82. To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you,
something to inspire you
~ Tony Dorsett
83. The road to success is always under construction
~ Lily Tomlin
84. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
~ Zig Ziglar
85. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success
~ Napoleon Hill
86. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a

result, they get better answers.

~ Anthony Robbins
87. The best revenge is massive success.
~ Frank Sinatra
88. Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous
than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
~ Pablo Picasso
89. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if youre not
frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
~ David Rockefeller
90. How do I define success? Let me tell you, moneys pretty nice. But having a lot of money
does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning.
You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to
your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
91. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress
stops.
~ Thomas J. Watson
92. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your
heart
~ Thomas J. Watson
93. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest
failure.
~ Napoleon Hill
94. Most of the successful people Ive known are the ones who do more listening than
talking.
~Bernard Baruch
95. The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
~ Nelson Boswell
96. Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.
~ Mary OHare Dumas
97. You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
~ Benjamin Franklin
98. The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
~ Elbert Hubbard
99. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from
an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
~Earl Nightingale
100. Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.
~Charles B. Rouss

Bonus Quotes
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at
something you hate. ~ George Burns
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they dont quit. ~Conrad Hilton
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
~Napoleon Hill
Successful people are simply those with successful habits. ~Brian Tracy
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ~Henry David Thoreau

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

~ Anonymous
Confidence is the companion of success.
~ Anonymous

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