50 Quotes About Success

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By Tricia McKinnon

What kind of tomorrow are you dreaming of? We all have hopes and dreams in our hearts and minds. Bringing those dreams to pass is often more daunting than we realize. But have some hope. If the people you look up to can do it then so can you. If you are stuck in a rut or just need a dose of inspiration to keep going then these motivational quotes are for you!

1. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

2.  "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." — Pele

3. “Success is a journey, not a destination.” — Arthur Ashe

4.  “We become what we think about” — Earl Nightingale

5.  “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”— Brian Tracy

6.  “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Rob Siltanen

7.  “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” — Napoleon Hill

8.  “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” — Dhirubhai Ambani

9. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

10. “Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.” — Henry Ford

11.  “Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

12.  “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” — Alice Walker

13.  “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson


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14.  “There’s a saying that if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. I learned that’s a total crock. You’ll work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands.” Tim Cook

15. “Invest in the success of others. It’s not about being the only one that succeeds; it’s about multiplying to many.” — Steph Curry

16.  “Some people feel confusion and uncertainty, (which are often things that arrive right before possibility) and do nothing. Don’t do nothing.” Alex Dimitrov

17.  “The ‘success’ parts of life look good to others, but the best parts are actually the simple, daily experiences. This is true whether you’re an actor or a teacher or a waitress. I know because I’ve been all three.” — Lauren Graham

18.  “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain

19.  “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein

20.  “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

21. “The expert in anything was once a beginner." — Helen Hayes

22.  “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson

23.  "Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." — Oprah Winfrey

24.  "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." — Wayne Gretzky

25.  "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller

26.   "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney

27.  “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” — Anonymous

28.  “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.” — Oprah

29.  “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama

30.  “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” — Teddy Roosevelt

31.  “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

32.  “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

33.  “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth

34.  “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen

35.  "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." ― Barack Obama

36. "Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. Let them make you even hungrier to succeed." — Michelle Obama

37.  “Everything is hard before it is easy."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

38.  "If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."― Martin Luther King Jr.

39. "If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress." ― Barack Obama

40. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain

41. “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

42. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

43. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” — Roy L. Smith

44. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” — Oprah Winfrey

45.  “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” — Harry F. Banks

46.  “Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

47.  “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” ―Wayne Dyer

48.  “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” — Mandy Hale

49.  “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” — Ava DuVernay

50. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle

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