Quotes about Success and Achievement – Belief & Determination
Success and achievement are often the culmination of perseverance, resilience, and a healthy dose of motivation.
Quotes about success and achievement provide that motivational spark we often need when we’re on the brink of giving up or losing our way.
We all have unique definitions of what success means to us. It might be financial stability, a physical triumph, or impacting the world in a positive way.
Regardless of how you personally define it, the pursuit of success and achievement is still a journey filled with challenges and triumphs.
The following inspirational quotes help to offer guidance, motivation, and sparks of insight into these journeys.
As you read through this compilation of quotes, may you find the nuggets of wisdom that resonate with your journey towards success and achievement. May they inspire you, uplift you, and equip you with the perspective needed to reach your goals.
Quotes about Success and Achievement
“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
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” Paulo Coelho
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” Albert Einstein
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” David Frost
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” Bo Bennett
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” Charles Kingsleigh
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” Vince Lombardi
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” Joyce Brothers
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” Wilma Mankiller
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” Zig Ziglar
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
“To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” Mike Gafka
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” Truman Capote
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” Colin R. Davis
“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” W. Clement Stone
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” Ayn Rand
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” Herbert Bayard Swope
“The price of success is hard work, dedication 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
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” Bruce Lee
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” Colin Powell
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” Henry Ford
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” Mark Twain
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” Tony Hsieh
“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” Barack Obama
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” Estée Lauder
“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
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” Brian Tracy
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan
“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
Every quote in this collection serves as a reminder that success is not a destination but a journey. It is an ongoing process of learning, growing, and persevering.
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