Sometimes it can be hard to find the motivation to hustle relentlessly in the pursuit of our goals. If you’re procrastinating and in need of a pep talk, these fifty quotes about success should inspire you to get to work.
1. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney
2. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein
3. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” ― Proverb
4. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ― Bill Cosby
5. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” ―Dhirubhai Ambani
6. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” ― Anonymous
7. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill
8. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler
9. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “Two roads diverged in a wood. I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost
11. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” ― Vaibhav Shah
12. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dalí
13. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ― Babe Ruth
14. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ― Michael Jordan
15. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel
16. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ― Chris Grosser
17 “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” ― Mark Twain
18. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ― Confucius
19. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” ― Bill Gates
20. “I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” ― George S. Patton
21. “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
22. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” ― John Maxwell
23. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” ― Steve Maraboli
24. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.” ― Kim Garst
25. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” ― G. K. Chesterton
26. “The best revenge is massive success.” ― Frank Sinatra
27. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” ― Hayley Williams
28. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ― Charles Swindoll
29. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” ― W. Clement Stone
30. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” ― Stephen Covey
31. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ― Woody Allen ”
32. “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” ― Buddha
33. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ― Arthur Ashe
34. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ― Henry Ford
35. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” ― Oscar Wilde
36. “It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J. K Rowling
37. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” ― John D. Rockefeller
38. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ― Vincent van Gogh
39. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ― Steve Jobs
40. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
41. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
42. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ― Pablo Picasso
43. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ― Aristotle
44. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill
45. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank
46. Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ― David Frost
47. “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” ― Jesus Christ
48. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” ― Oprah Winfrey
49. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
Get out there and happen to things! Are there any quotes about success that you would add to this list? If so, please share them in the comments. And always remember: consistent hustle always wins.
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