What are motivational quotes for success to encourage?

Success is a journey, not a destination, and it often requires persistence, determination, and a positive mindset. Throughout history, great minds and achievers have shared their insights to inspire others to keep moving forward, even in the face of challenges.

In this blog, we’ve curated 75 of the most famous motivational quotes about success to ignite your passion, fuel your drive, and remind you that success is within your reach.

75 most famous motivational quotes for success to encourage you forward 

1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
2. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
3. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
4. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
5. Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. – Chris Grosser
6. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
7. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson
8. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
9. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – George S. Patton
10. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
11. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn
12. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
13. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
14. Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
15. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission. – Anonymous
16. Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
17. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
18. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
19. I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. – Estée Lauder
20. Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso
21. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
22. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville
23. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
24. I failed my way to success. – Thomas Edison
25. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron
26. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
27. Success is not how much money you make, but the difference you make in people’s lives. – Michelle Obama
28. Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do. – Unknown
29. The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.– Unknown
30. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. – Mary Kay Ash
31. Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan
32. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennett
33. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
34. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
35. It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
36. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra
38. Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ben Sweetland
39. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
40. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
41. The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
42. Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it. – Marva Collins
43. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
44. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James
45. Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
46. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
47. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
48. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson
49. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
50. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." – Mark Twain
51. Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis
52. Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. – Marilyn vos Savant
53. With self-discipline, almost anything is possible. – Theodore Roosevelt
54. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee
55. Success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. – Thomas Edison
56. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale
57. Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasow
58. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
59. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
60. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered. – Booker T. Washington
61. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill
62. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal. – Earl Nightingale
63. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
64. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
65. Focus on being productive instead of busy. – Tim Ferriss
66. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want, but you have to keep working. – Russell Simmons
67. Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it. – Unknown
68. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
70. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
71. Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. – Jon Bon Jovi
72. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh
73. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. – Roy T. Bennett
74. Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. – Dwayne Johnson
75. Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. – Christian D. Larson

Conclusion

Success is a journey, not a destination, and it often requires persistence, determination, and a positive mindset. Throughout history, great minds and achievers have shared their insights to inspire others to keep moving forward, even in the face of challenges.