Success Quotes

Top 10 Best Success Quotes:

"For surely I know the plans I have for you, says God, plans for your welfare, not for woe...to give you a future with hope."
- Jer. 9:21

"When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure,’ I think that is worse, that is almost worse than death."
- Kobe Bryant, NBA All-Star

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
- Stephen Hawking

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ashe

"Entrust your works to the Lord and your plans will succeed."
- Proverbs 16:3

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
- Bill Gates

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."
- Dalai Lama XIV

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky

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

"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli

More Success Quotes:

"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
- Benjamin Franklin

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
- Harry S. Truman

"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."
- Julia Child

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
- Golda Meir

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
- Jane Addams

"A blind person's world is bounded by the limits of touch; an ignorant person's world, by the limits of knowledge; a great person's world, by the limits of vision."
- E. Paul Harvey

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."
- Author Unknown

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
- Henry Ford

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. "
- Arnold H. Glasow

"Action is the foundational key to all success."
- Pablo Picasso

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."
- Napoleon Hill

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
- Booker T. Washington

"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

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The secret off success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave wash us a little farther up the shore."
- Cyril Connolly

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
- John Wooden

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
- Rabindranth Tagore

"Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it."
- Mae Jemison

"Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion."
- Oprah Winfrey

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

"One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar."
- Helen Keller

"Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves."
- Konrad Heiden

"The happiest people in the world are those who have found the life task to which they have been called."
- Robert C. Leslie

"Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!"
- Leigh Steinberg

"I ask for wisdom and strength, not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself."
– Ojibwe prayer

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