Quotes About Success In Life

Are you looking for a roadmap to success?  Everyone’s path is unique. The success quotes in this article are designed to help define success for yourself and to give you the inspiration to succeed.

This article includes several of my favorite quotes about success in life. Enjoy!

“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.” — Alexander Graham Bell

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.  It is not a thing to be wanted for, it is a thing to be achieved.” — William Jennings Bryan

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”  — Dale Carnegie

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” — Francis Chan

“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

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”  — Charles Darwin

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” — Henry Ford

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” — Bill Gates

“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” — Napoleon Hill

“Winners and losers aren’t born, they are the products of how they think.” — Lou Holtz

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

“If you only care enough for a result, you almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich you will be rich, if you wish to be learned you will be learned. If you wish to be good you will be good.  Only you must then really wish these things and wish them exclusively and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”  — William James

“All success begins with self-discipline. It starts with you.” — Dwayne Johnson

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

“I’ve never dreamt of success.  I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.”  — President Abraham Lincoln

“Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.” — Niccolò Machiavelli

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.  They vary in their desire to reach their potential.”  — John C. Maxwell

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” — Benjamin Mays

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire

“The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared with your true potential.” — Paul J. Meyer

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — General Colin Powell

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” — Marcel Proust

“I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.” — Queen Elizabeth II

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” — Ayn Rand

“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” — Sugar Ray Robinson

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sasson

“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

“Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.” — Eric Thomas Ph. D.

“A champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they recover when they fail.” — Serena Williams

“You know when you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” — John Wooden

“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” — John Wooden

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you come by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar

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