170 Positive Success Quotes

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Famous Positive Success Quotes

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak. — Roger Federer

Success doesn't suck. — Darius Rucker

Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. - Earl Nightingale

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. — Earl Nightingale

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

Success is a great deodorant. - Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. — Elizabeth Taylor

Success always leaves footprints. — Booker T. Washington

Where there is an effort, there is a success. — Thai Proverbs

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation — Zig Ziglar

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

Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life. — Greg Plitt

Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. — American Proverbs

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself. — Tal Ben-Shahar

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. — Paul J. Meyer

Short Positive Success Quotes

  • It is important to recognize the small successes. — Rafael Nadal
  • Success is measured by personal happiness. — Usher
  • Success is the best revenge. — Kanye West
  • Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful. — Wallace D. Wattles
  • True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values. — Muhammad Ali
  • The truest success is but the development of self. — Charles Atlas
  • Success is the child of audacity. — Benjamin Disraeli
  • Success builds character, failure reveals it. — Dave Checketts
  • Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. — Christopher Lasch
  • Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar

Top 10 Positive Success Quotes

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. — John C. Maxwell

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. - Brian Tracy

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy

Positive Success Image Quotes

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

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

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

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

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop - Gertrude Stein quote

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop — Gertrude Stein

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes quote

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. - Bob Proctor quote

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. — Bob Proctor

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

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional . - Tony Robbins quote

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional . — Tony Robbins

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. - Thomas A. Edison quote

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. - John Hagelin quote

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. — John Hagelin

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C. S. Lewis quote

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C. S. Lewis

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. - Mary Kay Ash quote

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. — Mary Kay Ash

Positive success quote Success - See your goal; Understand the obstacles; Create a positive mental picture; Clear your mind
Success - See your goal; Understand the obstacles; Create a positive mental picture; Clear your mind of self doubt; Embrace the challenge; Stay on track; Show the world you can do it!

Good Positive Success Quotes

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

All things come to those who wait. — Violet Fane

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. — Og Mandino

Wendy’s was a really good investment for us, making the fund a few hundred million, which was sizable as a percent of our total assets at the time. Wendy’s set us up for McDonald's. — Bill Ackman

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. — James A. Yorke

Be so good they can't ignore you. — Steve Martin

Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is. — Eric Barker

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. — Hillary Clinton

I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much. — Madhuri Dixit

Positive Affirmations Quotes

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena

When you get to the place where you would worry, Stop and pray. — Edgar Cayce

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU! — John Assaraf

Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The more a person feels understood, and positively affirmed in that understanding, the more likely that urge for constructive behavior will take hold. — Chris Voss

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be. — Selena

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. - Jim Rohn

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. — Jim Rohn

I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. — Louise Hay

There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition. — Steve Ross

Positive Attitude Quotes

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. — Joel Osteen

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. — Dupree Jordan

Everywhere you go, take a smile with you. — Sasha Azevedo

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path! — Maya Angelou

Positive Quotes

I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Moving Forward In A Positive Direction - Colin StuckertAlbert Einstein

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. — Robert H. Schuller

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa

Positive Thinking Success Quotes

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll

I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself." — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - John C. Maxwell

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. — John C. Maxwell

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. — Rabindranath Tagore

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump

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

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

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. — Robert Orben

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success. — Randy Gage

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill

Positive Attitude And Success Quotes

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. — J. Sidlow Baxter

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology. — Donald Johanson

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. — David Landes

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. — Eddie Rickenbacker

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. — W. Clement Stone

When you love life, life will love you back. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Those who win are those who think they can. — Richard Bach

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl

THE KEY TO SUCCESS is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing. Success begins with a positive attitude, it is the most valuable asset we may own. Success begins with a good feeling about where we are and a positive attitude about where we want to be. — Iyanla Vanzant

Positive Life Quotes

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. — Drake

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama

Positive Outcome Quotes

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die. — Jacques Derrida

People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes. — James David Vance

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! — Jon Gordon

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. — Wade Boggs

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them. — Sasha Azevedo

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes. — Roy T. Bennett

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off. — Miley Cyrus

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. — Iain Duncan Smith

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes. — Steve Backley

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind. — Miley Cyrus

Positive Business Quotes

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. — Lee Iacocca

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day — Will Durant

I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business. — Erykah Badu

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business. — Rod Serling

The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business. — Peter Joseph

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top - Yvon Chouinard

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney

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More Positive Success Quotes

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win. — Sylvester Stallone

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault

To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. — John Keats

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. — Albert Einstein

Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure. — Bill Burr

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

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