Top 480 Success Quotes

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
John C. Maxwell
You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that’s not my journey.
Davante Adams
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
David R. Ellis
I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.
Tom Shadyac
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Eva Green
I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
Stephen Curry
The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Anna Held
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Shah Rukh Khan
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.
Alexander Nix
You can’t kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
James G. Stavridis
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Edward Everett Hale
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu
Success doesn’t demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.
David Joseph Schwartz
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Mark Warner
I’m always asked, ‘What’s the secret to success?’ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Dwayne Johnson
Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I’m always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game.
Raul
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Christopher Reeve
A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is beca

A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic.
Aaron Donald
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
Herodotus
Success, to me, is just doing things that I’m really proud of.
Dua Lipa
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove
Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.
Jonny Kim
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
Kelly Wearstler
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Shah Rukh Khan
Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.
Lucy Carless
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
Sylvester Stallone
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Herodotus
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
Money does not guarantee success.
Jose Mourinho
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don’t have your health, you have nothing.
Steven Adler
If the ‘Post’ can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper’s future success.
Jack Ma
I’m an addict, I’m addicted to success. Thankfully, there’s no rehab for success.
Lil Wayne
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
Jocko Willink
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
When someone asks, ‘Does success make you into a monster?’ I always say, ‘No, it enables you to be a monster.’
Simon Cowell
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Orben
Curt Hennig was my buddy, and he had great success with Mr. Perfect.
Scott Hall
I’ve had great success being a total idiot.
Jerry Lewis
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'c

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that’s success.
Tim Cook
Be careful of success; it has a dark side.
Robert Redford
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
Chris Coleman
If you have talent, then success will come to you.
Kartik Aaryan
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston
The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
Brendon Burchard
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no success without hardship.
Sophocles
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
John Maynard Keynes
Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.
Don Shula
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapiers
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
Herschel Walker
Academic success depends on research and publications.
Philip Zimbardo
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.
Bear Bryant
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
Azim Premji
The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‘Sign.’
Robert Baden-Powell
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
Jim Rohn
Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
Shelby Steele
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
Becky Sauerbrunn
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
Richard Branson