Success doesn’t come overnight, but it requires dedication, hard work, and sacrifice. However, success does come with plenty of perks, including wealth, happiness, and great opportunities. Becoming successful is possible for most people, only if they use each day to improve and work towards reaching their goal and true purpose.
The first, and probably most important, a step towards becoming successful is having a hunger for it. Besides this, you’ll also need persistence, a lot of work, and the power to achieve it. Thus, you can make it happen if you put your drive, ambition, and desire into practice.
Additionally, there is no harm in getting inspiration from some motivating success quotes. To make things easier for you, we’ve handpicked the best motivational success quotes to boost your mood.
- ‘Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.’
- ‘Dream it. Believe it. Build it.’
- ‘The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.’
- ‘You learn more from failure than success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.’
- ‘Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.’
- ‘Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.’
- ‘Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.’
- ‘The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.’
- ‘The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.’
- ‘Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.’
- ‘Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.’
- ‘Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.’
- ‘Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.’
- ‘I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.’
- ‘Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.’
- ‘The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.’
- ‘You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest.’
- ‘Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.’
- ‘Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.’
- ‘I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.’
- ‘Don’t wait for the opportunity. Create it.’
- ‘If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.’
- ‘Never give up. Great things take time. Be patient.’
- ‘Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.’
- ‘Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.’
- ‘The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.’
- ‘It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.’
- ‘Do what you can, with all you have, wherever you are.’
- ‘Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.’
- ‘Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.’
- ‘There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.’
- ‘Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.’
- ‘It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.’
- ‘If you feel like giving up, just look back on how far you are already.’
- ‘It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.’
- ‘Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.’
- ‘Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.’
- ‘You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.’
- ‘Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.’
- ‘The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.’
- ‘Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.’
- ‘Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.’
- ‘Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success.’
- ‘The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.’
- ‘Dream bigger. Do bigger.’
- ‘Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.’
- ‘Focus on your goal. Don’t look in any direction but ahead.’
- ‘Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.’
- ‘Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.’
- ‘Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.’
- ‘The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.’
- ‘Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.’
- ‘Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.’
- ‘Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.’
- ‘Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.’
- ‘Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’
- ‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.’
- ‘Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.’
- ‘Knowing is not enough we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.’
- ‘Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.’
- ‘It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.’
- ‘The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.’
- ‘In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.’
- ‘Great things never come from comfort zones.’
- ‘The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.’
- ‘There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.’
- ‘However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.’
- ‘The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.’
- ‘A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.’
- ‘Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.’
- ‘Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?’
- ‘We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.’
- ‘I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still, it took me by surprise.’
- ‘Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.’
- ‘Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.’
- ‘Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.’
- ‘What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.’
- ‘A problem is a chance for you to do your best.’
- ‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.’
- ‘Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.’
- ‘Fall seven times and stand up eight.’
- ‘We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.’
- ‘Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.’
- ‘My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.’
- ‘Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.’
- ‘Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.’
- ‘The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.’
- ‘Remember it’s just a bad day, not a bad life.’
- ‘Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.’
- ‘Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.’
- ‘We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.’
- ‘Whatever is worrying you right now, forget about it. Take a deep breath, stay positive and know that things will get better.’
- ‘I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.’
- ‘I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.’
- ‘Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.’
- ‘It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.’
- ‘Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.’
- ‘If you really want to do something, you’ll find away. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.’
- ‘You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.’
- ‘Believe you can and you’re halfway there.’
- ‘The secret of success is constancy to purpose.’
- ‘Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.’
- ‘To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.’
- ‘Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.’
- ‘In order to succeed, you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.’
- ‘There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.’
- ‘Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.’
- ‘You are so much more than what you are going through.’
- ‘You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.’
- ‘The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.’
- ‘Leaders are never satisfied; they continually strive to be better.’
- ‘You don’t gain anything from stressing. Remember that.’
- ‘If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.’
- ‘The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.’
- ‘Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.’