What defines success? what is it that makes us successful and what exactly does it require to be successful? Check out this complete list of quotes on How to Be Successful, find out the meaning behind success, and discover why you shouldn’t be scared to fail.
Are you a successful person because of money? Are you looking for love or having wonderful family and friends? Do you want to have fun as well as find balance, and satisfaction?
Are you able to answer one of them? Here are some of our top quotes on how to be successful from the most successful people in history to help you understand the meaning of success for you.
Success is whatever you wish it to be, therefore, go out and find what you want. If you are successful in your own way you’re already ahead of the curve.
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Quotes On How To Be Successful
1] “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” –Oprah Winfrey
2] “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” –David Rockefeller
3] “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary”. –Vidal Sassoon
4] “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” –Alexander Graham Bell
5] “The key to success is to develop a winning edge.” –Brian Tracy
6] “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 Sheperd
7] “Applause waits on success.” – Benjamin Franklin
8] “You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.” –Dale Carnegie
9] “Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.” –Earl Nightingale
10] “Your attitude is either the lock on or the key to your door of success.
11] “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.” –Elie Wiesel
12] “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” –Christopher Morley
13] “If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.” –Scott Adam
14] “Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
15] “Behind every successful man, there are a lot of unsuccessful years.” –Bob Brown
16] “Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones – this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important.” –Thich Nhat Hanh
17] “Maximum success is reached when you are never busy.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
18] “You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” –Thomas Wolfe
19] “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” –Aristotle Onassis
20] “Other people’s success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.” –Nicholas Hoult
21] “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” –Oscar Wilde
22] “Success has always been a great liar.” –Friedrich Nietzche
23] “Success is a journey, not a destination.” –Arthur Ashe24] “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” –Bobby Unser
25] “Nothing succeeds like success.” – Alexandre Dumas
26] “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” –Gen. George Patton
27] “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” –Paul J. Meyer
28] “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
29] “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
30] “When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” –Bo Bennett
31] “Success is the sum of details.” – Harvey Firestone
32] “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” –Estée Lauder
33] “Success is not in what you have, but in who you are.” –Bo Bennett
34] “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou
35] “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” –Lucille Ball
36] “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” –Albert Einstein
37] “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey
38] “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vince Lombardi
39] “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
40] “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” –Henry David Thoreau
41] “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” –Winston Churchill
42] “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” –Zig Ziglar
43] “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” –Conrad Hilton
44] “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
45] “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” –Christopher Morley
46] “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” –Jim Rohn
47] “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” –Earl Nightingale
Success and Triumph
48] “We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.” –Henry David Thoreau
49] “Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.” –Henry Ward Beecher
50] “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.” –Elbert Hubbard
51] “Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.” – Emily Dickinson
52] “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” –Paul J. Meyer
53] “Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” –Christopher Reeve
54] “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
55] “Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.” –Tennessee Williams
56] “Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.” – Gustave Flaubert
57] “Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.” –Brianna Wiest
58] “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” –Benjamin Franklin
59] “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome.” –Booker T. Washington
60] “Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” –Mike Ditka
61] “There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened.” –Jim Lovell
62] “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” –Dale Carnegie
63] “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” –Oliver Goldsmith
64] “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” –Malcolm X
65] “Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.” –Albert Einstein
66] “80% of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
67] “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” –Mother Teresa
68] “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison
69] “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” –Robert F. Kennedy
70] “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” –Abraham Lincoln
71] “All you need is ignorance and confidence and success is sure.” –Mark Twain
72] “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” –Nelson Mandela
73] “You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.” –Lou Holtz
74] “I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.” –Margaret Meade
75] “Your success and happiness lie in you.” – Helen Keller
76] “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. –Margaret Thatcher
77] “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” –Ayn Rand
78] “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” –Bill Bradley
79] “Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.” –Erma Bombeck
Success Vs Failure
80] “The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.” –Israelmore Ayivor
81] “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” –Truman Capote
82] “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
83] “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” –Stephen McCranie
84] “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
85] “Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.” –Sam Walton
86] “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” –Robert Kiyosaki
87] “Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.” –Henry Ward Beecher
88] “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” –Bruce Feirstein
89] “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask for any failure.” –Earl Wilson
90] “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” –Michael Jordan
91] “The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.” –Joseph Barber Lightfoot
92] “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” – Robert Browning
93] “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” –Sumner Redstone
94] “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” –Nelson Mandela
95] “The No. 1 reason people fail in life is that they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” –Napoleon Hill
96] “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison
97] “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
98] “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
99] “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” –James Cameron
100] “It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” –Teddy Roosevelt
101] “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about today.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
102] “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville
103] “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” –Colin R. Davis
104] “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
105] “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
106] “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” –James Cameron
107] “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” –Warren Buffett
108] “No one knows what he can do until he tries.” –Publilius Syrus
109] “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” –James Cameron
Successful People Quotes
110] “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” –Bill Gates
111] “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” –Dale Carnegie
112] “The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.” –Ray Croc
113] “Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.” –Martha Stewart
114] “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” –Coco Chanel
115] “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
116] “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” –T.S. Eliot
117] “True success is the person who invented himself.” –Al Goldstein
118] “I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.” –Calvin Klein
119] “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” –Wayne Huizenga
120] “The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.” –Naval Ravikant
121] “My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.” –Al Lewis
122] “Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.” –Gary Keller
123] “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” –Audrey Hepburn
124] “Your daily agenda determines the secret of your success.” –John C. Maxwell
125] “Success is the inevitable byproduct of learning.” – Naval Ravikant
126] “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” –Joyce Brothers
127] “Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success 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
128] “The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” –Chris Jami
129] “The road to success is always under construction.” – Arnold Palmer
130] “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” –Tony Robbins
131] “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” –Alexander Graham Bell]
132] “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
133] “The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus.” –Bruce Lee
134] “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” –Bill Gates
135] “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” –Jim Rohn
136] “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” –David Brinkley
137] “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” –Albert Einstein
138] “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.” –Abraham Lincoln
139] “My success is not who I am.” – Judith Guest
140] “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” –Tony Robbins
141] “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” –Florence Nightingale
142] “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” –John D. Rockefeller
143] “Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.” –James Clear
144] “Mediocrity always measures success by money.” – Thibaut
145] “You don’t have to show people how successful you are.” –Martin Yan
146] “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” –Napoleon Hill
147] “Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger
148] “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” –Will Smith
149] “Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.” –Larry King
The secret of Success Quotes
150] “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” –W. Clement Stone
151] “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
152] “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” –Abraham Lincoln
153] “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” –Benjamin Disraeli
154] “Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.” –Al Bernstein
155] “They succeed because they think they can.” –Virgil
156] “All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.” – Herodotus
157] “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” –Virat Kohli
158] “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” –Thomas J. Watson
159] “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
160] “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” –Sir Walter Scott
161] “If you really look closely, most overnight successes take a long time.” –Steve Jobs
162] “The secret to success is to own nothing but control everything.” –Nelson Rockefeller
163] “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” – Eddie Cantor
164] “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” –Herman Cain
165] “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” –Napoleon Hill
166] “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” –Estée Lauder
167] “If you really look closely, most overnight successes take a long time.” –Steve Jobs
168] “The real secret of success is enthusiasm.” – Walter Chrysler
169] “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” –Gen. Colin Powell
170] “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” –Seth Godin
171] “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out”. –Robert Collier
172] “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” –John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
173] “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” –William Feather
174] “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” –Julia Child
175] “The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
176] “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success.” –Ross Perot
177] “You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.” –Michael Dell
178] “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” –Zig Ziglar
179] “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.” –Thomas J. Watson
180] “The formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” –J. Paul Getty
181] “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” –John Wooden
182] “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” –Bob Dylan
183] “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
184] “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” –Jim Rohn
185] “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” –George Bernard Shaw
186] “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” –Brian Tracy
187] “Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.” –Norman Vincent Peale
188] “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 Croc
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