200+ Powerful Quotes On Success and Successful People

Success is a subjective concept, and the path to achieving it varies for each individual. Throughout history, many successful people have shared their insights, motivations, and perspectives on what it takes to reach the pinnacle of accomplishment.

Their words of wisdom can serve as guiding lights, offering inspiration and valuable lessons to those embarking on their own journey towards success.

Here are some powerful quotes from successful individuals that can ignite your drive and help you navigate the road to success.

People become successful the minute they decide to. – Harvey Mackay
Success is predictable. – Brian Tracy
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes. – Brian Tracy
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success. – Albert Einstein
Success is more attitude than aptitude.
The size of your success depends on the depth of your desire.
Happiness is the highest level of success.
80% of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models. – Jack Canfield
Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas. – John S. Hinds
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. – Jim Rohn
The path to success is to take massive determined action. – Anthony Robbins
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright
Success comes to those who dare to begin.
Your success is only limited by your desire.
Failure is merely part of the process necessary for success.
The door to success is the one marked PUSH.
Success in the end erases all the mistakes along the way. – Chinese Proverb
Success is a piece of mind which is a direct result of the self-satisfaction knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. – Norman Vincent Peale
True success in life is not measured by how much you make, but by how much of a difference you make.
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli
Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements. – Mark Victor Hansen
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. – George E. Allen
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller
Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. – David McCullough
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. – Norman Vincent Peale
If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”. – Richard M. Devos
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving; they make mistakes, but they do not quit. – Conrad Hilton
Success is not always achieved by hard work alone, but mix it with a little bit of organization and a little strength from God above and you’ll have a winning recipe.
Keys to success: Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it. – John S. Hinds
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. – Benjamin Disraeli
To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it. – Bunker Hunt
Success is not where you are in life, but the obstacles you have overcome. – Booker T. Washington
If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also. – Brian Tracy
Keep going, for success lies just around the corner for those who refuse to quit.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past success.
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the mighty force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. We must be quick to break those old habits that break us and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that will help us achieve the success we desire. – J. Paul Getty
One can dream of horizons bigger than the imagination – how you go about implementing those dreams will be the key to your success.
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You’ve got to get up and work at it to make your dreams come true. – Poh Yu Khing
On the path to success always lies big O’s. Some read them as Obstacles, and others read them as Opportunities.
Success is committing to give your best no matter what the circumstances.
Believe you will be successful and you will. – Dale Carnegie
Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, and expectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence, and determination. If you are going to be a success in life it’s all up to you… .it’s your responsibility. – Will Horton
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears. – Terry Litwiller
I feel the most important requirement to success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it. – Reggie Jackson
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 are in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. – Anthony Robbins
Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can’t find them, then make them. – George Bernard Shaw
Success is having your best day everyday.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. – Alexander Grahm Bell
A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.
It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. – Marcel Proust
Success is neither a high jump nor a long jump; it is the steps of a marathon.
Take up one idea and act on it. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea and leave all other ideas alone. This is the way to success.
If you have failed, do not worry. You have just cut the way to success.
Successful people do what unsuccessful people dare not to.
The word can’t is not in the successful man’s vocabulary.
Real success is not having things, but having victory over yourself.
Failure doesn’t mean that we are off the track to success. It merely forces us to take a detour to success.
The secret to success is to be ready when opportunity comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. – Thomas Dewar
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap into the dark to our success. – Henry David Thoreau
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams. – Og Mandino
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Donald Kendall
It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success. – John Mason
Every failure is a step to success.
Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. – Soichiro Honda
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. – Norman Vincent Peale
If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful. – Donald M. Kendall
If you continue to work hard, success will follow you.
Success is to stand in the presence of God unashamed.
Success is not the position you stand, but the direction in which you look.
Ambition is success’s best friend.
Don’t let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure. – Og Mandino
The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get. – Brian Tracy
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field! – Denis Waitley
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement. – Claude M. Bristol
Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.
Success could be described as 50/50 – 50% vision and 50% action.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by a horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie
You cannot have any success unless you can accept failure. – George Cukor
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it!
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. – Charles Carlson
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. – Stephen A. Brennan
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to organizational success. – Stephen Covy
Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ben Sweetland
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commiment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Marrio Andretti
Success is not permanent, neither is failure. – Dell Crossword
Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won’t happen. – Phillip Adams
An unfailing success plan: at each day’s end, write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and DO them. No planning will work unless we take action.
Failure is a success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes
Seek not outside yourself for success lies within. – Mary Lou Cook
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
You are on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
Success is determined by those who prove the impossible to be possible. – James W. Pence
Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
You don’t pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. – Zig Ziglar
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Denis Waitley
Yesterday’s failures are today’s seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest tomorrow’s success.
If you can’t find the key to success, pick the lock.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you must have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. – Margaret Thatcher
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. – Mother Theresa
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. – Paul Sweeney
He has achieved success if he has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. – Bessie Stanley
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. – Brian Tracy
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. – Dr. Dale Turner
The three P’s of success: Passion, Persistence, and Patience. – Doug Bronson
The secret to success is to do common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. – Napoleon Hill
Even if something has just a one percent chance of success, success boils down to how fast you exhaust your ninety-nine failures.
Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of. – Pete Zafra
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Great people are created by great mistakes that are learned from, not from great successes that are gloated upon. – Elmer Clark
Success is directly proportional to effort.
Success is achievean maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!! – W. Clement Stone
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want, and copy what they do, and you’ll achieve similar results. – Anthony Robbins
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, and to achieve what you set out to do. – Richard Nixon
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. – Andrew Carnegie
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
Success depends upon our previous preparations, and without such preparations there is sure to be failure. – Confucius
Each problem has in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. – Joseph Sugarman
If there is any one axiom that I have tried to live up to in attempting to become successful in business, it is the fact that I have tried to surround myself with associates that know more about business than I do. This policy has always been very successful and is still working for me. – Monte L. Bean
Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is what the majority of men do. That is why the majority is just ordinary. – Napoleon Hill
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have. – Nido Qubein
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, and a need for control is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. – Robert F. Bennett
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider, and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation – persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it. This is the man who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. – Alexander Graham Bell
The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent. – Smiley Blanton
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They are willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There is a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they are willing to spend on it. – Dr. Joyce Brothers
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details and steadily building upon it. – Robert J. Collier
Working hard overcomes a whole lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, and you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. – Marsha Evans
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience, trial, and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. – Vince Lombardi
Youth is not enough. Love is not enough. Success is not enough. And if we could ever achieve it, enough would not be enough. – Mignon McLaughlin
The price of success is hard work, dedicated to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. – Vince Lombardi
I still say that I am a little different because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. Success is just being happy. – Herschel Walker
Some of my fondest memories in sports were a result of failure, injuries, setbacks, and mistakes. I learned far more about myself and gained more character in those difficult times than I ever did when success came early. – Peter Vidmar
Out of respect of things I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations. – Billy Joel
All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work everyday toward their distant vision, goal, and purpose! – Brian Tracy
If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams and endeavors to live the life that he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
Success is all in the mind.
As a rule, he or she that has the most information will have the greatest success in life. – Benjamin Disraeli
Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming at it unswervingly. – Cecil B. DeMille
Women will never be as successful as men because they do not have wives to advise them. – Dick Van Dyke
The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success! – Dr. Joyce Brothers
Success is willing to do what the average person is not willing to do.
Keep on trying.. .each failure is one step closer to a success. – Thomas J. Vilord
Success is not final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it. – Marva Collins
The real secret to success is enthusiasm. – Walter Chrysler
It is our attitude at the end of a difficult task, which more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James
Success as I see it is a result, not a goal. – Gustave Flaubert
I am not telling you that achieving success is going to be easy, I am telling you that it’s going to be worth it! – Art Williams
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. – Joseph Ross
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way that you want. – Christopher Morley
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose your ability to learn new things and move forward in your life. – Dr. David M. Burns
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. – Kurt Lewin
Whenever I hear it can’t be done, I know I am close to success. – Michael Flatley
You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney
A minute of success pays for years of failure. – Robert Browning
Success is to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
I have heard it said that the first, ingredient of success, the earliest spark in the dreaming youth is this: dream a great dream.
I have had enough success for two lifetimes. My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. – Scott Adams
The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think.
Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. – Robert Albert Bloch.
Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. – Nelson Boswell
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. – Eddie Cantor
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me, I cannot see any way in which I would have ever made progress. – Calvin Coolidge
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks, learns just as much from his failures as he does from his successes. – John Dewey
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success. – Napoleon Hill
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. – Edward Eggleston
There is no point at which you can say, “Well I am successful now, I might as well relax”. – Carrie Fisher
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.- Michael J. Gelb
Losers visualize the penalties of failure; winners visualize the rewards of success. – William S. Gilbert
Success gravitates to those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to be a success.
Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill
Success isn’t magic or hocus-pocus – its simply learning how to focus. – Jack Canfield
The secret of success is this: there is no secret to success. – Elbert Hubbard
The road to success is always under construction.
A successful man is one who earns more than his wife can spend; a successful woman is one who marries such a man.
The secret of success is to never let down and never let up.
None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. – William James
Success comes in can’s. Failures come in cant’s.
There are no speed limits on the road to success. – David W. Johnson
Behind every successful man I stands a surprised mother-in-law. – Hubert H. Humphrey
There is no great success without great commitment.
The difference between a successful person and the others is not a lack of strength and not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more. – Ed Parker
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. – Will Rogers
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record each and everyday, and you are a success. – William Boetcker
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble, but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas. – Melvin Powers
The recipe of success is to study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing. – William A. Ward
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. – Oliver Goldsmith
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, with whomever you want, as much as you want. – Anthony Robbins
Enthusiasm is the vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. – Conrad Hilton
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie
Success comes to those who make it happen, not those who let it happen.
In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God. – John A. Kelley
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made courageous decision. – Peter Drucker
Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves. – Denis Waitley
Past failures are guideposts for future success.
Success is the person who year after year, reaches the highest limits in his field. – Sparky Anderson
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Success has always been easy to measure. It’s the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement. – Michael Korda
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. – Paul Meyer
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. – David Joseph Schwartz