130 Great Success Quotes

Following is our list of great success quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about real success.

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Famous Great Success Quotes

Much effort, much prosperity. — Euripides

Opportunities were seized, regrets were had, and success was ultimately achieved. — Cliff Lerner

Success is a great deodorant. - Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. — Elizabeth Taylor

Success doesn't suck. — Darius Rucker

Success always leaves footprints. — Booker T. Washington

Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein

Success is the result of hard work. — Thomas A. Edison

I've had great success being a total idiot. - Jerry Lewis

I've had great success being a total idiot. — Jerry Lewis

Success has always been a great liar. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is the best revenge. - Kanye West

Success is the best revenge. — Kanye West

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation — Zig Ziglar

Success is the child of audacity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside. — Rohit Sharma

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. — Abraham Lincoln

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. - Stephen Curry

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. — Stephen Curry

Short Great Success Quotes

  • Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. — Earl Nightingale
  • Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. — Euripides
  • Success is always stressful. — Andrew Tate
  • Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. — Napoleon Hill
  • Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar
  • He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. — Elbert Hubbard
  • Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. — Amos Bronson Alcott
  • The best revenge is massive success. — Frank Sinatra
  • Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. — American Proverbs
  • Applause waits on success. — Benjamin Franklin

Top 10 Great Success Quotes

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. - Milton S. Hershey

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers — Nas

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. - Serena Williams

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. — Sonia Sotomayor

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. - Buddha

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. — Buddha

Great Success Image Quotes

Great success quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai quote

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. - Saint Francis de Sales quote

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. — Saint Francis de Sales

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. - Leon Gambetta quote

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. — Leon Gambetta

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward - Thomas A. Edison quote

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward — Thomas A. Edison

Great success quote The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words "I did not have t
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words "I did not have time".
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. - Seneca quote

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca

Laughing is the best calorie burner. - Audrey Hepburn quote

Laughing is the best calorie burner. — Audrey Hepburn

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill quote

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success. - Arianna Huffington quote

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success. — Arianna Huffington

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. - Warren Buffett quote

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett

If you think you can't, you're right. - Carol Bartz quote

If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Seneca quote

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product. - Eric Ries quote

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product. — Eric Ries

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. - Joseph De Maistre quote

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. — Joseph De Maistre

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand - Vince Lombardi quote

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera - Rick Riordan quote

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera — Rick Riordan

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. - Martha Stewart quote

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. — Martha Stewart

Great success quote You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Good Success Quotes

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Stevie Wonder

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow

Great success quote To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for y
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.

Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker

Real Success Quotes

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. — Sonia Sotomayor

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. — Ralph C. Smedley

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality. - Bryant H. McGill

Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality. — Bryant H. McGill

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real. — Tony Robbins

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . . — Barack Obama

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. - Walter Chrysler

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. — Walter Chrysler

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott

Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey

Continued Success Quotes

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

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. - Robin Sharma

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete — Waite Phillips

Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day. — Rory Vaden

Winners win. The only thing that separates people who don’t win from those who do is the ones who try. So as long as you continue to try, you can’t lose because that’s what it really comes down to. — Alex Hormozi

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. — Napoleon Hill

Athletic success is the result of knowing what to do, the willingness to do it, and the drive to continually improve at it. — Tim Grover

Successful Event Quotes

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up. — John C. Maxwell

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful. — Jahangir Khan

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. — Robert Orben

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. — Richard Attias

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. — Napoleon Hill

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas. — Pyotr Chaadayev

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events. — Maxwell Maltz

Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event. — Carolina Kluft

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible. — Abigail Adams

True Success Quotes

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? — James Allen

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. — Philippe Petit

It is my right to be rich, happy, and successful. Money flows to me freely, copiously, and endlessly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is wonderful! — Joseph Murphy

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. - Jackson Pollock

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. — Jackson Pollock

True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant. — Hrithik Roshan

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy. — India.Arie

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. — Sigmund Freud

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. — Hedy Lamarr

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw

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More Great Success Quotes

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving. — Cornel West

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is. — J. J. Watt

I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances. — Lester Sumrall

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. — Amelia Earhart

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure. — Larry Ellison

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus

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