50+ Inspiring Success Quotes to Motivate Achievement and Reach Your Goals
Success is a deeply personal journey, defined not only by achievements but also by the growth, effort, and values that guide us. It is not measured solely by wealth or status but by the fulfillment of meaningful goals and the positive impact we create in our lives and others’. True success often lies in the balance between ambition and contentment, reminding us to celebrate progress, no matter how small, and to stay true to our purpose while striving for greatness.
- “If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
- “The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- “I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
- “One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
- “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
- “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
- “The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”
- “Success has always been a great liar.”
- “One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
- “Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.”
- “Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”
- “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
- “Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.”
- “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
- “In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
- “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
- “No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
- “The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
- “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
- “For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”
- “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
- “I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
- “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”
- “Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.”
- “Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
- “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
- “In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.”
- “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
- “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
- “Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”
- “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
- “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.”
- “I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.”
- “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
- “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
- “If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
- “To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”
- “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
- “Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”
- “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
- “Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
- “I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.”
- “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”
- “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
- “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
- “Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
- “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.”
- “That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.”
- “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”