These are 35 of the top success quotes I have found in my research.
As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add credibility to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.
Success Quotes is a compilation of the quotes about what it takes to become a success and what it means to live a life of true success: with purpose, meaning and fulfillment. These quotes I have chosen are specifically meant for that purpose. Use these quotes to inspire and motivate!
35 Top Success Quotes
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Unknown
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba
Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Tony Robbins
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
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Sumner Redstone
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
Deepak Chopra
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to “carry it off.”
Donald Rumsfeld
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Denis Waitley
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
Jack Nicklaus
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
Dee Hock
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sydney Madwed
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Christopher Reeve
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you’re happy when you wake up.
Michael Pitt
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