+100 Top Success Quotes That Have Changed People’s Lives

by - October 14, 2015







Because nothing can inspire us more than some wise saying, below are more than 100 success quote from great people to inspire you:



1- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill

2- A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in. - Unknown

3- The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

4- We were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau

5- The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin






6- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. - Henry David Thoreau

7- For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? - James Allen

8- The secret of success is consistency of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli

9- Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

10- Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. - Unknown

11- Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. - Unknown

12- Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen




13- The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. - Napoleon Hill

14- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. - Bernard M. Baruch

15- Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill

16- Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given. - Unknown

17- Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well. - Unknown

18- You already have every characteristic necessary for success. - Unknown

19- Success and money have nothing in common. - Unknown

20- The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success. - Unknown





21- If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures. - Unknown

22- Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden

23- If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again. - Laurence J. Peter

24- What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting. - Proverb

25- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer

26- He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. - Friedrich Schiller

27- There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles




28- There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends. - Mark Twain

29- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

30- Success is failure turned inside out. - Unknown

31- Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. - Unknown

32- Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher

33- Success makes success, like money makes money. - Nicolas Chamfort

34- Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

35- It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work. - Unknown




36- Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

37- I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know. - Joseph Conrad

38- When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt

39- Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth. - Margaret Thatcher

40- Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. - George Sand

41- Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. - Chinese proverb




42- Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - Unknown

43- The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Chinese proverb

44- Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. - Victor Hugo

45- Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

46- Try and trust will move mountains. - Proverb

47- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt





48- Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers

49- Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. - Unknown

50- The best way to get something done is to begin. - Unknown

51- No rules for success will work if you don't. - Unknown


52- Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson

53- A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. - Mahatma Gandhi

54- He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche

55- Action is the real measure of intelligence. - Napoleon Hill




56- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden

57- Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. – Robert H. Schuller


58- People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." – Leonardo da Vinci


59- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Elliot


60- Don't go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you. - Stew Leonard

61- You were born to succeed in your talents. Speak success in everything you do and your dreams will come true. - D. Ridgley

62- It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. -Eleanor Roosevelt


63- You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. - Les Brown




64- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley


65- Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker


66- Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston


67- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

68- To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. - Johann von Goethe


69- What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Henry David Thoreau

70- The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully. – Jim Rohn





71- Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert H. Schuller

72- Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles F. Kettering


73- The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese proverb
74- I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. - Muhammad Ali


75- What makes or breaks a man is not what people think of him, but what he thinks of himself. – Jean-Paul Sartre


76- When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. -Paul Brown

77- How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. – Robert G. Allen



78- 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

79- Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu

80- All great achievements require time. - Maya Angelou

81- You just can't beat the person who won't give up. - Babe Ruth


82- Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. – Unknown

83- Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. - Madeline Bridges



84- Either you run the day or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn


85- The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill 

86- It’s hard to be 100% better than your competition, but you can be 1% better in 100 ways. – Rich Melman


87- Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. - Miguel de Cervantes


88- You have to put in many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. – Brian Tracy


89- If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates


90- Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill


91- You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there. -Venus Williams




92- Unless you are willing to try, fail miserably, and try again, success won't happen. - Phillip Adams

93- It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. – Sam Ewing


94- Happy are those who dream dreams & are ready to pay the price to make them come true. – Leon Joseph


95- Success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become. – Jim Rohn

96- Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don’t take yourself seriously. - Tom Hiddleston


97- Before you learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade. - Banti Singh


98- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison



99- Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. - Magic Johnson


100- The lot of critics is to be remembered for what they fail to understand. – George Edward Moore

101- I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. – Lord Horatio Nelson

102- 90% of what’s stressing you today will be irrelevant in a year. Get over it. Move on and enjoy your life. - Terrence J


103- You create your opportunities by asking for them. -Patty Hansen


104- At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't -Andy Roddick

105- Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi


106- Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. – David Bly





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