100+ Powerful Success Quotes for Work to Motivate Your Career

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

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

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

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

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

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.” – Angela Duckworth

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

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

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

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else.” – Yogi Berra

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

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

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” – Diana Scharf Hunt

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

“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

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

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

“True leadership stems from character, not position.” – John Wooden

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

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell

“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 action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon

“The speed of the leader determines the pace of the pack.” – Robin Sharma

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

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

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

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

“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

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers

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

“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

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Jordan Belfort

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

“Great things are done by discipline, not inspiration.” – H.J. Round

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

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

“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

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

“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

“Failure teaches success.” – T. Harv Eker

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.” – Christine Caine

“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 forward, fail better.” – Reid Hoffman

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

“One hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.” – British Proverb

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

“To innovate, you have to be willing to fail.” – Elon Musk

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

“We are all born creative. But over time, we lose touch with our creative selves.” – Sir Ken Robinson

“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” – Napoleon Hill

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” – Laurence J. Peter

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.” – William Blake

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.” – Mike Schmoker

“Teamwork makes the dream work.” – John C. Maxwell

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson

“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden

“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

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

“Purpose is the reason we strive, the source of our resilience, and the core of our well-being.” – Eric Greitens

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

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

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

“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” – Katharine Whitehorn

“Purpose is the key to unlocking potential.” – Bill Bradley

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” – Tony A. Gaskins

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

“Purpose drives performance.” – Simon Sinek

“When purpose becomes your priority, success automatically follows.” – Roy T. Bennett