450 Inspiring Success Quotes to Motivate You

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Success means different things to different people. For some, it’s climbing the corporate ladder. For others, it’s following their passion. No matter what success looks like for you, having the right mindset is key. Here are 450 inspiring success quotes to motivate you on your journey:

 

Quotes on Perseverance

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

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

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.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

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

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

The road to success is always under construction.

 

Quotes on Hard Work

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.

 

Quotes on Taking Action

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.

There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

Success is not the absence of failure; it’s persistence through failure.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.

Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough.

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

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way.

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

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Either the day runs you or you run the day.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

When you change what you believe is possible, you change what becomes possible.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

 

Quotes on Learning from Failure

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Success is not just about making money. It’s about making a difference.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

 

Quotes on Overcoming Obstacles

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

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

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

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

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t; it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

It’s not about money or connection – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.

Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

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

Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

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

Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform.

When I meet successful people, I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

 

Quotes on Leadership

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect.

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

 

Quotes on Teamwork

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win.

It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together.

Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

I’ve always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job.

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

 

Quotes on Employee Appreciation

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.

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

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is people.

If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work.

Employees aren’t just workers, they’re the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

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

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

 

Quotes on Effort and Determination

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Much effort, much prosperity.

There is no success without hardship.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that’s the secret of success.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

 

Quotes on Keys to Success

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Comfort is the enemy of achievement.

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

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.

Achievement is talent plus preparation.

 

Quotes on Personal Growth

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.

Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.

The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.

It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.

When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.

We become what we think about.

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do.

Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.

The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.

 

Quotes on Positive Thinking

For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

 

Quotes on Integrity

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

 

Quotes on Pursuing Dreams

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.

Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.

Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!

It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

 

Quotes on Courage

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage.

Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.

The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.

It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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

It hurt because it mattered.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears.

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

Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Don’t count the days. Make the days count.

The only limits you have are the limits you believe.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.

Change the world by being yourself.

Change the game, don’t let the game change you.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

You get what you give.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

 

Quotes on Innovation

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Light tomorrow with today!

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

 

Quotes on Perseverance

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work.

A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

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

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind.

Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

You do not find the happy life. You make it.

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.

 

Quotes on Optimism

Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.

Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Just because it’s what’s done doesn’t mean it’s what should be done!

With a smile and a song, life is just like a bright sunny day. Your cares fade away.

It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities.

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

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

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

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

 

Quotes on Self-Confidence

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.

Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.

The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.

It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.

When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.

We become what we think about.

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do.

Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.

The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

 

Quotes on Determination

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.

For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

 

Quotes on Growth Mindset

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?

 

Quotes on Legacy

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.

Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.

Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!

These 450 success quotes offer wisdom and inspiration from influential leaders and thinkers throughout history. They remind us that success comes in many forms and requires perseverance, hard work, and the right mindset.

Whether you’re facing challenges or celebrating victories, let these words motivate you to keep pushing forward on your journey to success.