100+ Best Sayings About Success to Inspire and Motivate

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently. – Marie Forleo

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas Edison

It always seems impossible until it's done. – Nelson Mandela

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston S. Churchill

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it. – Anonymous

Dream big, start small, act now. – Robin Sharma

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

Great things take time; keep going. – Anonymous

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done. – David Goggins

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe. – Sumner Redstone

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage. – Napoleon Hill

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – Henry Ford

Fail fast, fail often, but always fail forward. – John C. Maxwell

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you. – Roy Bennett

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

You haven’t failed until you’ve given up. – Anonymous

Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure. – Aisha Tyler

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right. – Henry Ford

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and nobody is going to play well without it. – Jack Nicklaus

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson

Your belief determines your action, and your action determines your results. – Tony Robbins

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. – Suzy Kassem

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

Success begins with self-confidence. – Anonymous

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – Napoleon Hill

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. – Guy Kawasaki

Success doesn’t come from having the right opportunities. It comes from seizing the right ones. – Roy T. Bennett

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

Take action. Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people. – Anonymous

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Friedrich Engels

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson

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

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. – George Washington Carver

A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

Success is having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. – George Sheehan

Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you. – Tony Hsieh

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purpose drives passion, passion fuels effort, effort breeds excellence, and excellence leads to success. – Simon Sinek

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else. – Lawrence J. Peter

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. – Joel A. Barker

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

Success is not just about making money. It’s about making a difference. – Unknown

Success is not owned, it is rented—and the rent is due every day. – Ryan Blair

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. – Jim Rohn

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

Winners have simply developed the discipline of doing what losers won’t. – Hal Urban

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. – Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. – Vince Lombardi

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. – Dwayne Johnson

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. – Jordan Belfort

Success comes from doing what others don’t want to do. – Anonymous

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise. – Frank Ocean

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Success is no accident. It’s hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing. – Pelé

Excellence is never an accident. It’s always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. – Arianna Huffington

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

The expert in anything was once a beginner. – Helen Hayes

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennett

The capacity to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. – Arie de Geus

The more you learn, the more you earn. – Warren Buffett

Success is not about being the best. It’s about getting better. – Simon Sinek

Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses. – Anonymous

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Success is not measured by wealth, fame, or power, but by the impact you make on others. – Anonymous

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Pablo Picasso

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. – Paul Sweeney

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment. – Robert Kiyosaki

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. – Christian D. Larson

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Rikki Rogers

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. – Brené Brown

The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself. – Anonymous