110 Success Quotes that will inspire you to succeed - Inspiring Short Quotes (2024)

Everyone wants to be successful. But it has different definitions for different people. What is Success ? Here are best success quotes by the different successful personalities that will inspire you to succeed.

Success Quotes

1. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

2. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” –Maya Angelou

3. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”–Invajy

4. “The important thing is to not stop questioning.” –Albert Einstein

5. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” –Jerry Rice
6. ”You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” –Wayne Gretzky
7. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –Steve Jobs
8. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “Never regret whatever happen in life , good things give you happiness and bad things give you learning.” – Invajy
10. “When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!” –Tony Robbins

Quotes about Success

11. “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
12. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” –Albert Einstein
13. “It is not length of Life, but depth of life.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “See the invisible, believe the incredible, achieve the impossible.” –Joel Brown
15. Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?” –Brian Tracy
16. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” –Michael Jordan
17. “It took us so long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” –Kurt Vonnegut
18. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
19. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
20. “Success is not final;failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

Best Success Quotes

21. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” –Beverly Sills
22. “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” –Tim McGraw
23. “In the giving-is the getting.” –David Matoc
24. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
25. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
26. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
27. “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.” –Stephen Morrisey
28. “A hero is a person who does what he or she can.” –Roman Rolland
29. “The impossible is often the untried.” –Jim Goodwin
30. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

Inspiring Quotes on Success

31. “Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.” –Goethe
32. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
33. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – K. Chesterton
34. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” –Will Rogers
35. “Happiness is not necessarily the absence of sufferings, It is the presence of peace of mind.” – Invajy
36. “It’s not your circ*mstances that shape you, it’s how you react to your circ*mstances.” –Anne Ortlund
37. “The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.” –Abraham Lincoln
38. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
39. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

Motivational Success Quotes

41. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
42. “Where there is unity there is always victory.” –Publilius Syrus
43. “In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.” –John Lilly
44. “You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be” –Joel Brown
45. “Work hard, do your best and leave on god to do the rest.” – Invajy
46. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Hubbard
47. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullsh*t story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” –Jordan Belfort
48. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
49. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
50. “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” –Victoria Holt

Success Quotes

51. “It’s not denial. I’m selective about the reality I accept.” –Calvin
52. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” –Mother Teresa
53. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin Roosevelt
54. “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” –Herm Albright
55. “Nothing is worth more than this day.” –Goethe
56. “There is no elevator to success — you have to take the stairs.” –Invajy
57. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
58. “If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.” –H. Alderson
59. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
60. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

Quotes on Success

61. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
62. “Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” –Charles Schultz
63. “There is nothing permanent except change.” –Heraditus
64. “The miracle is this; the more we share, the more we have.” –Leonard Nimoy
65. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
66. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
67. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
68. “Out of clutter, find simplicity; from discord, find harmony; in the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.” –Albert Einstein
69. “Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” –John Updike
70. “Our greatest glory is not failing, but in rising every time we fail.” –Confucius

Quotes about being Successful

71. “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
72. “Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.” –Mitzi Chandler
73. “The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rains and the scorching sun.” –Napoleon Hill
74. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
75. “It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.” –Lena Horne
76. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” –Helen Keller
77. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” – David Brinkley
78. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. And, if you don’t step forward your always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
79. “A good hand and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” –Nelson Mandela
80. “There are two ways of exerting ones strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” –Booker T. Washington

Famous Success Quotes

81. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
82. “A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.“ –Jonathan Swift
83. “Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” –John Maxwell
84. “A person that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” –Dwight Eisenhower
85. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
86. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
87. “Like a kite courageous person always rises and achieves new highs going against the wind.” – Invajy
88. “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” –Robert H. Goddard
89. “Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.” – Jackson Brown Jr.
90. “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

Short Success Quotes

91. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
92. “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” –Winston Churchill
93. “It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret” –Jackie Joyner- Kersee
94. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
95. “We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes.” –Randy K. Milholland
96. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
97. “A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” –John Maxwell
98. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” –Albert Einstein
99. “Every dog must have his day. “ –Jonathan Swift
100. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” –Winston Churchill

Successful people Quotes

101. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” –Will Rogers
102. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” –Vince Lombardi
103. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
104. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” –Steve Jobs
105. “People, who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” –Rob Siltanen
106. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
107. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” –Og Mandino
108. “Do what you can with what you’ve got wherever you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt
109. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
110. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” –Henry Van Dyke