100+ Powerful Success Quotes to Inspire & Motivate Your Journey

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

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

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

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

“I’ve failed over and over again—that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.” – J.K. Rowling

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

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

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” – Walter Brunell

“The diamond is the same carbon as the pencil lead, just under pressure.” – Bill Bradley

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.” – Joyce Meyer

“Failure teaches success.” – T. Harv Eker

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins

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

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

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

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

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

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

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

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

“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

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

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

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

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar

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

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving it.” – Michelangelo

“Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson

“Create a vision that inspires and compels you so deeply that you cannot imagine living without it.” – Brendon Burchard

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

“You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.” – Charles C. Noble

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

“Write your goals down. If you don’t, you’re just talking to yourself.” – Grant Cardone

“The road to success starts with a single, clearly defined goal.” – Earl Nightingale

“Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

“Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Neil Strauss

“To dare greatly is to risk failure, but also to unlock greatness.” – Brené Brown

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“Leap and the net will appear.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Take risks: if you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise.” – Anonymous

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“Little by little, day by day, what is destined will be fulfilled.” – Isabelle Holland

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

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell

“Most overnight successes took years.” – Biz Stone

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

“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Liane Cardes

“Keep going. Everything you do now is building your future.” – Rhonda Byrne

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell

“An inch of movement will bring an ocean of change.” – Habeeb Akande

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie

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

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

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

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

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre

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

“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

“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of self-esteem.” – Denis Waitley

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

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

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

“Own who you are. No apologies. No exceptions. No excuses.” – Germany Kent

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

“The best leaders are readers.” – David L. Bahnsen

“Time isn’t precious because it’s scarce, it’s precious because it’s irreversible.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen R. Covey

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“Take care of your minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord Chesterfield

“Time management is life management.” – Robin Sharma

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Purpose drives performance.” – Simon Sinek

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

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“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.” – Steve Jobs

“Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, and everything else will fall into place.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Purpose is the reason we strive, the source of our resilience, the foundation of our well-being.” – Dr. Adam Grant

“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

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” – Tony Robbins

“Purpose is the compass that guides every decision toward meaningful success.” – Lewis Howes

“When purpose and passion collide, magic happens.” – Rachel Hollis