178 Successful People Quotes

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Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. — Jon Gordon

Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so. — Isaac Mashman

Successful people are action oriented and they have bigger libraries than TV's. - Jim Rohn

Successful people are action oriented and they have bigger libraries than TV's. — Jim Rohn

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. — Joe Rogan

Successful people often enjoy telling their story. — Lewis Howes

Highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. — Adam Grant

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure. — Jeff Olson

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. — Robert H. Schuller

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. — Tony Robbins

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. — Jim Lovell

The most successful people in the world have a mindset of abundance, not scarcity. — Andrew Tate

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. — Steve Harvey

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. — Edward Eggleston

The people you meet that are super successful, they always put themselves in situations where people are bigger than them, because it's the next platform, the next level they're getting to. — Patrick Bet-David

The successful are those who have been given opportunities. — Malcolm Gladwell

Short Successful People Quotes

  • The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information. — Benjamin Disraeli
  • All of the really successful people I know have a really strong action bias. — Naval Ravikant
  • The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. — James A. Yorke
  • Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. — Seth Godin
  • The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison
  • Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes. — Carol S. Dweck
  • Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
  • The most successful people are first-principle thinkers. — Peter Diamandis

Top 10 Successful People Quotes

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth

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

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. — Dalai Lama

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top. — Misty Copeland

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

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe. — Stephen Keshi

Successful People Image Quotes

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. - George Bernard Shaw quote

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. — George Bernard Shaw

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. - Seth Godin quote

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. — Seth Godin

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

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. - Harvey S. Firestone quote

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. — Harvey S. Firestone

Successful people quote The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, he
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
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

THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HELP BECOME SUCCESSFUL, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME. - Steve Harvey quote

THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HELP BECOME SUCCESSFUL, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME. — Steve Harvey

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. - Ross Perot quote

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. — Ross Perot

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

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

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

Successful people quote I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Successful Individuals Quotes

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele

Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz

Successful people quote Choose people who lift you up.
Choose people who lift you up.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. — Babe Ruth

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. — Stephen King

Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now. — Sylvia Earle

Successful people quote Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave
Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. — Elihu Root

A lot of people like to romanticize burning the midnight oil or waking up at the crack of dawn, but the truth is that success is neither of those things. It’s just whatever works for you. — Alex Hormozi

There’s rich people who wake up really early, and there are rich people who wake up really late. There’s rich people who eat really healthy, and there are rich people who eat unhealthy. So there’s no one-size fits all approach to success. — Alex Hormozi

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy

Successful Person 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

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person. — Abdul Kalam

Successful people quote Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but th
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan

Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success. — Prince

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

Successful people quote To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... t
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.

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

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. — Mignon McLaughlin

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune

Successful Man Quotes

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. — Lana Turner

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. — George S. Patton

Successful people quote The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, heal
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi

Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins

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

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. - Groucho Marx

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. — Groucho Marx

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Bob Dylan

Successful Life Quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. — Swami Vivekananda

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh

Successful people quote People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

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

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

Successful people quote Successful people fail more ! Fail, learn, recover, regroup and retry.
Successful people fail more ! Fail, learn, recover, regroup and retry.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. — T. D. Jakes

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

Successful Leaders Quotes

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

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

...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Successful people quote People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. — Lewis Howard Latimer

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch

What distinguishes the greatest leaders of our time it’s that success is very rarely a goal for them; it’s a byproduct of other goals that they have. — Adam Grant

Successful people quote Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. — Lewis Howes

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. — Erin McCarthy

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. — Jocko Willink

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates

Becoming Successful Quotes

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Sayings

A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion. — Mike Murdock

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

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

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. — John Wooden

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

Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person. — Mark M. Ford

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Leadership and AdversityZig Ziglar

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. — Thomas Wolfe

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. — James Allen

Successful Entrepreneurs Quotes

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

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

It is better to be alone than in bad company. — Unknown Author

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad

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

Failure is success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur. — Patrick Bet-David

Successful Women Quotes

Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally! — Paula White

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

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. — Albert Einstein

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

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. — Madeleine Albright

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

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

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you. — Josephine Baker

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it. — Peggy Guggenheim

Business Success Quotes

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. - Zig Ziglar

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar

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

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. — Mark Zuckerberg

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. - Jim Rohn

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn

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

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. — Peter Drucker

Personal Success Quotes

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes. — John C. Maxwell

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps. — Eileen Caddy

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

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

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. — Melanie Klein

I respect anybody that's doin' their thing, and doin' better than I'm doin, or at least tryin'. I really don't need to hate on the next person. We're all just tryin' to get one thing at the end of the day, everybody's tryin' to get money and be successful, and just enjoy what they do. — Tyga

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More Successful People Quotes

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. — Theodore Roosevelt

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J. R. D. Tata

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith

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

How many people you bless is how you measure success — Rick Ross

Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends. — Cyrus the Great

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer. — Peter Drucker

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

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. — Napoleon Hill

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. — Jane Jacobs

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. — Barack Obama

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

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