The 53 best quotes on success

Several reflections on the meaning of success and personal progress.

This compilation of success quotes can be a help for self-motivation when concentrating on personal projects. Many of them are reflections of people as well known as Henry Ford, Confucius, Bruce Lee or Eleanor Roosevelt.

A selection of success phrases.

Many people long to reach a point in life that they relate to success. However, finding the motivation for it is not easy. These adages and reflections can help you face the day with a more constructive attitude.

1. When you find yourself next to the majority, it's time to stop and reflect (Mark Twain)

To achieve success you have to act differently from the majority.

2. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great (John D. Rockefeller)

A Rockefeller success phrase that for many could almost be a sentence.

3. You have to learn the rules of the game and then play it better than anyone else (Albert Einstein)

It is necessary to understand the logics of the environment through which we want to progress.

4. If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and focus on your size (T. Harv Eker).

Eker advises us to observe how we are in the world.

5. The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Whatever the basis of your desire, it is important to begin every project. is important to start every project.

6. Without continuous growth and perseverance, words like improvement, achievement and success have no meaning (Benjamin Franklin)

Benjamin Franklin's advice for success.

7. Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success (Henry Ford).

A phrase that describes the steps to success.

8. Success depends on preparation, and without it failure is sure to come (Confucius).

It is important to learn as much as we can from our experiences.

9. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in getting up every time we fall (Confucius).

Every time we get up we will carry with us the learning from that experience.

10. Identify your problems, but put your power and energy into the solutions (Tony Robbins).

A recommendation about attention management.

11. A successful man is the one who is able to build something with the bricks that others have thrown at him (David Brinkley).

To build with the critical solutions, a new path.

12. Take an idea. Make it your life: think about it, dream about it, live it. Let your muscles, brain, nerves and every part of your body be filled with that idea. Then leave all other ideas alone. That is the way to success (Swami Vivekananda).

One of the success phrases focused on recommend steps to follow.

13. All success takes place outside the comfort zone (Michael John Bobak)

Are you still living inside it?

14. The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength or lack of knowledge, but lack of willpower (Vince Lombardi)

Through willpower and effort comes everything good that can happen.

15. No masterpiece was created by a lazy artist.

Interesting aphorism about meritocracy.

16. The question is not who is going to leave me, but who is going to stop me (Ayn Rand)

A reflection on the relationships we come to have on our path to success.

17. Success consists in going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm (Winston Churchill).

Keeping always in good spirits.

18. You have to expect great things from yourself before you do them (Michael Jordan).

You have to be sure that you have what it takes to achieve the success you long for.

19. Many of the failures in people's lives occur when they did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up (Thomas A. Edison).

An invitation not to give up.

20. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them (Walt Disney)

It may take you a little time, just like Disney, but if you stay on track you will fulfill them.

21. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two sure stepping stones to success (Dale Carnegie).

Success from failures are often the learnings.

22. Success is not the end, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts (Winston Churchill).

About moving forward and always giving a little more.

23. Always keep in mind that your own will to succeed is far more important than anything else (Abraham Lincoln)

Order priorities to have a clearer vision of what you want.

24. In order to succeed, your desire to succeed must be greater than your fear of failure.

Fears invade us and annul us and do not allow us to succeed.

Twenty years later you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do (Mark Twain).

Dare to experience new things.

26. Success is about creating profit for everyone and enjoying the process. If you can focus on that and embrace the definition, success is yours (Kelly Kim).

A phrase of success that teaches us not to take anything for granted and to go for it. go for it.

27. The distance between madness and genius is only measured by success (Bruce Feirstein)

About qualities we don't usually know.

28. The secret of a successful life is to find out what your destiny is and then pursue it.

For Ford this was a very important maxim to incorporate into our philosophy of life.

29. Only when the caterpillar thought the world was ending did it turn into a butterfly (Proverb).

About beautiful transformations.

30. I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that do not work (Thomas A. Edison).

Some things depend on how we perceive them.

31. The successful man is an average man, with a laser-like ability to focus (Bruce Lee).

There is no need to despair for not having incredible qualities.

32. People seldom succeed at anything before they have fun at what they do (Dale Carnegie).

Passion and success often go hand in hand.

33. I have found that the harder I work, the luckier I seem to get (Thomas Jefferson).

Work not only gives us economic gratification, but it is a reaffirmation of our life; we are useful to some cause.

34. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary (Jim Rohn).

This phrase invites us to to sort out our priorities.

35. I do not measure a person's success by how high he climbs, but by how quickly he gets up when he falls (George S. Patton).

The key is not to become stagnant or discouraged by failures.

36. If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help them build theirs (Dhirubhai Ambani).

It is much better to bet on your own projects.

37. 80% of success is showing up (Woody Allen)

It is knowing how to communicate to make you feel and listen.

38. There are two types of people who will tell you that you can't make a difference: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed (Ray Goforth).

On certain toxic relationships to avoid.

39. Successful and unsuccessful people don't vary much in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential (John Maxwell).

For Maxwell, desires are the most important thing. One of the success phrases that link the achievement of goals not to abilities, but to the degree to which we strive to achieve them.

40. If you set your goals ridiculously high and fail, you will have failed over the successes of others (James Cameron).

All decisions bring us consequencesand we alone must assume that responsibility.

41. A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, determination, dedication, competitive drive and willingness to sacrifice the little things and pay for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done (Vince Lombardi).

When you have risked everything to achieve it.

42. Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your full potential and planting seeds that benefit others (John C. Maxwell).

Success makes you and the people around you happy.

43. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is you who has the courage and control to manage your actions.

44. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary (Vidal Sassoon).

Knowing a lot about what you want to undertake allows you to use your strengths better.

45. If you don't design your own life plan, there is a good chance that you will fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you. Not much (Jim Rohn)

Make sure you are fighting for something that means something to you.

46. If you want to achieve something big, stop asking for permission.

An anonymous reflection on nonconformism.

47. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose (Bill Gates)

A phrase from someone who knows success very well.

48. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people (Eleanor Roosevelt).

We must be prepared to rise to the occasion.

49. When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in service of my vision, fear becomes less important (Audre Lorde).

How many things we can do if we have fear under control!

50. You will succeed only if you want to succeed; you will fail only if you don't care to fail.

When success is not so important to oneself, failure is the most likely end.

51. A strong positive self-image is the best path to success (Joyce Brothers)

Someone that everyone trusts and respects: that's power.

52. The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, and passion to walk it, it is possible to achieve the American dream (Tommy Hilfiger).

A phrase of success that is placed in a particular context.

53. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success will be assured (Mark Twain).

A witty advice from Mark Twain, full of irony, focused on the criticism of what is usually considered success in some contexts.

54. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet (Bobby Unser).

Two elements that are very present in the realization of our objectives.

55. The first step to success is taken when you refuse to be captive to the environment in which you find yourself (Mark Caine).

When you want to go further than others.

56. It is important to celebrate success, but it is more important to learn well from failure (Bill Gates).

There are more lessons to be learned from mistakes than from successes.