132 Best Motivational Quotes For Success

Achieving success is not easy, and sometimes we need a little push to keep us going. Motivational quotes can be a great source of inspiration when we feel demotivated or overwhelmed. They remind us of our goals, strengths, and the importance of perseverance. Whether we are starting a new venture or trying to overcome a challenge, motivational quotes can provide us with the confidence and encouragement we need to succeed. In this article, we’ll explore some of the best motivational quotes for success that can help us stay motivated and focused on achieving our goals.

  1. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill
  2.  “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ” —Les Brown
  3. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
  4.  “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis
  5. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
  6.  “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” —Ralph Nader
  7. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
  8. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou
  9. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
  10. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” —Bill Gates
  11. “Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” —Calvin Coolidge
  12. “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” —Henry Kravis
  13. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers
  14. “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
  15. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden
  16.  “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” —Audre Lorde
  17. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
  18.  “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain
  19. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella
  20. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” —Bruce Lee
  21. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” —Anonymous
  22. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” —Roger Staubach
  23. . “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden
  24. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
  25.  “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” —Anonymous
  26.  “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
  27.  “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
  28.  “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” —Gurbaksh Chahal
  29. . “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” —Anonymous
  30. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” —Robert Kiyosaki
  31. . “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
  32. “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
  33. . “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
  34.  “Two roads diverged in a wood and I  took the one less travelled by, and that made all the difference.” —Robert Frost
  35. . “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” —Anonymous
  36.  “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbours.” —Napoleon Hill
  37. . “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” —Anonymous
  38.  “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” —Jane Smiley
  39. . “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
  40.  “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” —George Bernard Shaw
  41. . “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” —Proverb
  42. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” —Diane Ackerman
  43. . “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” —Anonymous
  44.  “You must expect great things from yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
  45. . “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” —Vaibhav Shah
  46. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” —Jim Ryun
  47. . “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser
  48. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie
  49. . “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” —Albert Einstein
  50. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  51. . “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  52. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” —Francis Chan
  53. . “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison
  54. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer
  55. . “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” —Kim Garst
  56.  “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee
  57. . “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley
  58.  “Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” —John C. Maxwell
  59. . “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  60. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer
  61. . “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” —Henry Ford
  62.  “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” —Anatole France
  63. . “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” —Winston Churchill
  64. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” —Dale Carnegie
  65. . “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” —Anonymous
  66.  “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” —Booker T. Washington
  67. . “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” —Anonymous
  68. “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” —Theodore N. Vail
  69. . “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” —Oscar Wilde
  70. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville
  71. . “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” —Anonymous
  72.  “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” —Spencer Johnson
  73. . “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” —Bruce Feirstein
  74. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” —Washington Irving
  75. . “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” —Lolly Daskal
  76.  “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.” —Truman Capote
  77. . “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
  78. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John R. Wooden
  79. . “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” —Anonymous
  80. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” —Margaret Thatcher
  81. . “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
  82. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” —Vince Lombardi
  83. . “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert Einstein
  84.  “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
  85. . “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” —Anonymous
  86. . “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
  87. . “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Anonymous
  88. . “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers
  89. . “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” —Anonymous
  90. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville
  91. . “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —Lolly Daskal
  92.  “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
  93. . “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” —Anonymous
  94. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden
  95. . “Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” —Anonymous
  96. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill
  97. . “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” —Anonymous
  98.  “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” —Vernon Sanders Law
  99. . “You can do anything, but not everything. —Anonymous
  100.  “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
  101. . “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs
  102. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” —Joe Girard
  103. . “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
  104. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar
  105. . “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” —A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  106.  “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
  107. . “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson
  108. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey
  109. . “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” —Napoleon Hill
  110. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” —William James
  111. . “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” —Robert Collier
  112. “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin.” —Gordon B. Hinckley
  113. . “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” —Thomas J. Watson
  114.  “One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” —Edmond Mbiaka
  115. . “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” —Michael John Bobak
  116. “When you wake up in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” —Marcus Aurelius
  117. . “You may only succeed if you desire to succeed; you may only fail if you don’t mind failing.” —Philippos
  118.  “Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” —Angela Bassett
  119. . “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
  120. . “If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” —Tobias Lütke
  121. . “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” —Pablo Picasso
  122.  “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet
  123. . “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar
  124. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
  125.  “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” —Earl Nightingale
  126. “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” —Napoleon Hill
  127. . “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” —Vidal Sassoon
  128. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” —Anonymous
  129. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” —Jim Rohn
  130. . “I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” —Martha Stewart
  131.  “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” —Abraham Lincoln
  132.  “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” —Epicurus

conclusion

In conclusion, success is a journey that requires hard work, dedication, and perseverance. Motivational quotes for success can help to inspire and encourage individuals to stay focused and determined in their pursuit of success. By reminding us of the power of positive thinking and the importance of taking action, these quotes can serve as a source of inspiration and motivation. Whether you are an entrepreneur, athlete, or student, the right mindset can make all the difference in achieving your goals. Use these motivational quotes for success to help you stay motivated and focused on your path to success.

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