50 Best Inspirational, Motivational Quotes about Success

These 50 Inspiring, Motivational Quotes about Success, will get you going.

1. "The best revenge is massive success." -Frank Sinatra

2. “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.” - A.P.J Abdul Kalam 

3. "Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail. " 
- A.P.J Abdul Kalam

4. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

5. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."  - James Cameron

6. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."  - Swami Vivekananda

7. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."  -Walt Disney

8. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."  -Winston Churchill

9. "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

10. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." -Abraham Lincoln

11. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” 
  — Earl Nightingale

12. “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.” – Steve Jobs

13. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
– Bill Cosby

14. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

15. "If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!" - Michael Jordan

16. "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." 
         - Richard Branson

17. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie

18. "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."  - John F. Kennedy

19. "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."         - Benjamin Disraeli

20. "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


21. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

– Stephen King



22. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

– Abraham Lincoln



23. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

– John R. Wooden

24. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

25. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
 – Mark Twain

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

27. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
 – Wayne Dyer

28. “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

29. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman

30. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson

31.“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

32. “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
 – Albert Einstein

33. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

34. “The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”
– Unknown

35. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

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

37. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

38. “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
– Zig Ziglar

39. “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

40. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

41. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

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

42. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand

43. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

44. “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” 
― Salvador DalĂ­

45. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” 
― Oliver Goldsmith

46. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” 
― Walt Disney Company

47. "Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."
- Dwayne Johnson

48. "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates

49. "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
- Bill Gates

50. "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." 
- Bruce Lee

Thank you!

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