100 Inspirational Quotes About Success
We’ve curated a collection of inspiring quotes about success to help boost your workday!
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
“What you are will show in what you do.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
“Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small successes will point the way to bigger ones.” – Pamela Glass Kelly
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
“I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
“A will finds a way.” – Orison Swett Marden
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” – Epictetus
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
“Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar
“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” – Winston Churchill
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
“In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” – Napoleon Hill
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” – William Prescott
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” – Paulo Coelho
“Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.” – Brian Tracy
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” – Napoleon Hill
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” –Benjamin Franklin
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
“There is not great talent without great will power.” – Honore de Balzac
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.” – Marcus Buckingham
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” – Michael Jordan
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordan
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – John F. Kennedy
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” – John Burroughs
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
“Someday is not a day of the week.” – Denise Brennan-Nelson
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.” – Confucious
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan