Quotes About Success

This collection of  motivational quotes about success can motivate and inspire you in your journey through life. Before you know it, you’ll be giving your own success quotes. And how cool will that be?!

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. – Author Unknown

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. – George Bernard Shaw

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! – More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass! – Paul J. Meyer

Success is not counted by how high you have climbed, but by how many people you brought with you. – Dr. Wil Rose

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

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building, steadily building. – Robert Collier

God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with.  Success depends on which one you use; heads, you win – tails, you lose. – Unknown

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. – Walter Cronkite

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. – Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.  – Albert Einstein

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. – Bruce Barton

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. – Mark Caine

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. –  More Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.  – Marva Collins

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

Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ben Sweetland

Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.  – Joe Paterno

Eighty percent of success is showing up.  – Woody Allen

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.  – Winston Churchill

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.  – David Frost

Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage. – Charles Luckman