80 Short success quotes that will help you reach the top. Here are the best success quotes that will motivate you to strive harder to achieve your life goals. Every one of us wants to achieve their desired dreams and to get accomplishments on whatever they do. May these quotes on success in life from the famous authors will serve as your motivation and be your guide on how to get there, whatever goals you have, and no matter what achievements you are pursuing. Share these motivational success quotes and sayings with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
2. Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H. Glasgow
3. Success is never ending, failure is never final. - Dr. Robert Schuller
4. I just love when people say I can’t do something because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it. - Ted Turner
5. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Emily P. Bissell
6. Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
7. It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it. - John Crowe
8. You will never find time for anything. You must make it. - Charles Buxton
9. Remove failure as an option. - Joan Lunden
10. There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. - Peter A. Cohen
11. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars. - Les Brown
12. 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
13. No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement. - Greg Henry Quinn
14. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching. - Mark Twain
15. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
16. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell
17. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
19. 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
20. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. - Alan Ashley-Pitt
21. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. - Warren Buffett
22. 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
23. Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. - Eileen Caddy
24. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer. - Nolan Bushnell
25. Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass! - Paul J. Meyer
26. Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. - Mark Twain
27. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. - John Burroughs
28. To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. - Bunker Hunt
29. You just can't beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
30. When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through. - F.W. Nichol
31. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' - Brian Tracy
32. If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them. - Yogi Berra
33. Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude. - W. Clement Stone
34. I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters
35. What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. - Samuel Johnson
36. We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
37. Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. - Brian Tracy
38. Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine. - Napoleon Hill
39. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. - Dennis Waitley
40. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas
41. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale
42. One man with courage is a majority. - Andrew Jackson
43. Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essentials of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. - Joseph Sugarman
44. Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.' - Robert Schuller
45. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George Patton
46. One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. - Scott Reed
47. Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. - Stephen Covey
48. I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
49. Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli
50. Teamwork is the long word for success. - Jacqueline Mae A. Rudd
51. Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive. - Lori Hard
52. You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. - Booker T. Washington
53. In order to succeed, you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time. - Anthony J. D'Angelo
54. Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there. - Marcus Washling
55. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going! - Jim Ryun
56. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
57. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot
58. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. - Charles F. Kettering
59. People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success. - Pete Zafra
60. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
61. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett
62. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Herman Cain
63. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
64. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean
65. Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. - Jawaharlal Nehru
66. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
67. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. - Ray Goforth
68. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. - William James
69. If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. - Olin Miller
70. Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. - Tony Hsieh
71. Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' - Amy Poehler
72. The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. - Roy L. Smith
73. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
74. Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy
75. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale
76. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee
77. Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
78. Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter Drucker
79. Anything in life worth having is worth working for. - Andrew Carnegie
80. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis
1. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
2. Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H. Glasgow
3. Success is never ending, failure is never final. - Dr. Robert Schuller
4. I just love when people say I can’t do something because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it. - Ted Turner
5. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Emily P. Bissell
6. Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
7. It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it. - John Crowe
8. You will never find time for anything. You must make it. - Charles Buxton
9. Remove failure as an option. - Joan Lunden
10. There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. - Peter A. Cohen
11. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars. - Les Brown
12. 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
13. No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement. - Greg Henry Quinn
14. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching. - Mark Twain
15. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
16. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell
17. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
19. 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
20. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. - Alan Ashley-Pitt
21. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. - Warren Buffett
22. 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
23. Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. - Eileen Caddy
24. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer. - Nolan Bushnell
25. Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass! - Paul J. Meyer
26. Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. - Mark Twain
27. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. - John Burroughs
28. To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. - Bunker Hunt
29. You just can't beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
30. When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through. - F.W. Nichol
31. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' - Brian Tracy
32. If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them. - Yogi Berra
33. Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude. - W. Clement Stone
34. I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters
35. What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. - Samuel Johnson
36. We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
37. Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. - Brian Tracy
38. Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine. - Napoleon Hill
39. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. - Dennis Waitley
40. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas
41. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale
42. One man with courage is a majority. - Andrew Jackson
43. Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essentials of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. - Joseph Sugarman
44. Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.' - Robert Schuller
45. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George Patton
46. One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. - Scott Reed
47. Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. - Stephen Covey
48. I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
49. Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli
50. Teamwork is the long word for success. - Jacqueline Mae A. Rudd
51. Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive. - Lori Hard
52. You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. - Booker T. Washington
53. In order to succeed, you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time. - Anthony J. D'Angelo
54. Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there. - Marcus Washling
55. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going! - Jim Ryun
56. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
57. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot
58. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. - Charles F. Kettering
59. People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success. - Pete Zafra
60. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
61. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett
62. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Herman Cain
63. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
64. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean
65. Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. - Jawaharlal Nehru
66. Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
67. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. - Ray Goforth
68. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. - William James
69. If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. - Olin Miller
70. Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. - Tony Hsieh
71. Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' - Amy Poehler
72. The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. - Roy L. Smith
73. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
74. Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy
75. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale
76. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee
77. Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
78. Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter Drucker
79. Anything in life worth having is worth working for. - Andrew Carnegie
80. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis