Top 100 Success Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”

— Deepak Chopra

2. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

— Jim Rohn

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3. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

4. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ”

— Bill Cosby

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5. “Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

— Pablo Picasso

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6. “Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.”

— Jim Rohn

7. “It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.”

— Nelson Mandela

8. “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

9. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

10. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

11. “Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

— Ben Carson

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

— Vince Lombardi

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13. “If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

— John C. Maxwell

14. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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15. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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16. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

— Bruce Lee

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17. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”

— Bill Cosby

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18. “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”

— Colin Powell

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19. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

— Bruce Lee

20. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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21. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.”

— Malcolm X

22. “Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.”

— John C. Maxwell

23. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

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24. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

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25. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

— Will Rogers

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26. “The road to success is always under construction.”

— Lily Tomlin

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27. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”

— Robert Strauss

28. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

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29. “You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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30. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

31. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ”

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Stephen King

33. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

34. “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

— Brian Tracy

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35. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

— Bruce Feirstein

36. “Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember: the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”

— Zig Ziglar

37. “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

— Stephen Richards

38. “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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39. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”

— Stephen Richards

40. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

41. “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

— Brian Tracy

42. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

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43. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

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44. “Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.”

— Robin S. Sharma

45. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

— Bill Gates

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46. “Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

— Coco Chanel

47. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

— Woody Allen

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48. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

— Ben Carson

49. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

— Truman Capote

50. “No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

— Brian Tracy