What exactly is success? How can we define it? It seems as if everyone wants to be successful in life. We all are pursuing success. Still, most of us have absolutely no clue how we can accomplish success. Do we even understand what it truly means to be “successful?” Or are we simply repeating the definition of success that media and society have placed in our mind? If you ask 100 people on the street about their definition of success, you’ll most likely receive 100 different answers. For many, being successful in life is closely associated with having a lot of money. This group of people defines success purely based on material accomplishments. Others define success through the level of power and control they can exert over others.
But what is being successful really all about? Is it really all about wealth, material possessions, and power? Or is it also about living one’s dream, enjoying each moment, living life to the fullest and making room for individual unfoldment?
No matter how we define success, we can definitely agree upon the fact that a sense of accomplishment can be extraordinarily empowering. Knowing that you’re successful enriches your perception of life. To be more precise: your perception of the importance of the role you play in life.
Success can be extremely motivating. It empowers us to continue the pursuit of our dreams. The following quotes about being successful will provide you the necessary inspiration that drives you to perform towards your goals.
Famous Quotes about Success
In the following, you can find our handpicked selection of some of the most inspiring and motivating success quotes from great leaders, famous authors and truly wise men and women.
Popular Quotes on Being Successful in Life
1. If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
Tony Gaskins
2. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
3. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
4. I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
5. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
6. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
7. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
8. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
9. The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
10. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
11. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown
12. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
13. In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.
Shing Xiong
14. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
15. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
John Wooden
16. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
17. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Robert Collier
18. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
19. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.
Jim Rohn
20. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
Thomas J. Watson
21. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
22. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
23. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
24. 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
25. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
26. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Denis Waitley
27. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
28. Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.
Larry Winget
29. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
Ray Goforth
30. Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
Francis Chan
31. 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
32. 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
33. It’s not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.
Mother Teresa
34. When you can’t change the direction of the wind, just adjust your sails.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
35. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
36. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
37. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
38. To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka
39. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
40. Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.
Dax Shepard
41. No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.
Lily-Rose M. Depp
42. Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.
Denzel Washington
43. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
44. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford
45. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
John Maxwell
46. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc
48. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
49. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
50. Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Marianne Williamson
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