57+ Success Quotes To Help You Thrive, Not Just Survive


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Success is more than just reaching the finish line; it’s a shining journey of growth, resilience, and ambition. The right words can spark confidence, inspire new goals, and add that extra boost when the path feels challenging. These success quotes are a reminder that with persistence and a positive outlook, anything is possible. Let them light up your journey, keep you motivated, and help you embrace every step with the confidence to succeed!

Motivational Success Quotes

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.  Winston Churchill

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.

Albert Einstein

Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.

Diane McLaren

Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest.

Walter Anderson

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

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

David Brinkley

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Chris Grosser

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Positive Quotes For Success

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

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

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Henry Ford

Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Vaibhav Shah

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.  Albert Einstein

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence .

Lisa M. Amos

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Tony Hsieh

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

James Cameron

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

John Wooden

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.

Mark Twain

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

Sonia Sotomayor

Deep Success Quotes

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

Louise Hay

People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.  Constance Wu

People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.

Constance Wu

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Don Cheadle

You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.

Leymah Gbowee

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Kurt Vonnegut

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.

Billie Jean King

You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.

Dr. Seuss

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

Jennifer Lopez

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.

Childish Gambino

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

Mia Hamm

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Positive Success Quotes

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.  Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Ruth Gordon

First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia Butler

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

Dita Von Teese

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us, that’s where it’s at.

Jesse Owens

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.

Bruce Lee

Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations.

Bill Walsh

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Thomas Aquinas

Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short.

Paul Graham

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

Pema Chodron

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