Success Quotes

Success means different things, reaching a goal, growing through setbacks, or showing up with steady effort. Reflections from diverse voices can spark motivation, clarify priorities, and encourage resilience without hype. Whether you are beginning a new project, navigating change, or celebrating a milestone, let these insights prompt focus, humility, and momentum. Return to them when willpower fades or perspective narrows, and rediscover practical ideas about persistence, learning, and purpose that can guide everyday choices and long-term ambitions.
Small: Success is a journey, not a destination
Ben Sweetland
"Success is a journey, not a destination"
Ben Sweetland, Author
Small: Success isnt a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire
Arnold H. Glasow
"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
Small: Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success
Ben Sweetland
"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success"
Ben Sweetland, Author
Small: If at first you dont succeed, try, try again
William Edward Hickson
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
Small: Success and failure are equally disastrous
"Success and failure are equally disastrous"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
Small: Eighty percent of success is showing up
Woody Allen
"Eighty percent of success is showing up"
Woody Allen, Director
Small: Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry
Democritus
"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"
Democritus, Philosopher
Small: There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure
Colin Powell
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"
Colin Powell, Statesman
Small: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value
Albert Einstein
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Small: Nothing succeeds like success
Alexandre Dumas
"Nothing succeeds like success"
Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist
Small: It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success
Lionel Messi
"It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success"
Lionel Messi, Athlete
Small: Action is the foundational key to all success
Pablo Picasso
"Action is the foundational key to all success"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Success is falling nine times and getting up ten
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten"
Jon Bon Jovi, Musician
Small: The secret of our success is that we never, never give up
Wilma Mankiller
"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
Small: The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success
Paramahansa Yogananda
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success"
Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader
Small: I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody
Bill Cosby
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
Small: You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your object
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"
W. Clement Stone, Businessman
Small: Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong
Adolf Hitler
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong"
Adolf Hitler, Criminal
Small: Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody
Seneca the Younger
"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
Small: The real secret of success is enthusiasm
Walter Chrysler
"The real secret of success is enthusiasm"
Walter Chrysler, Inventor
Small: The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people
Theodore Roosevelt
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
Small: Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which
Pablo Picasso
"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"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Success isnt about how much money you make its about the difference you make in peoples lives
Jordan Belfort
"Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives"
Jordan Belfort, Author
Small: The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary
Harvey Specter
"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary"
Harvey Specter, Actor
Small: The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything"
Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President
Small: Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit o
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"
Herbert Kaufman, Writer
Small: Whats money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what
Bob Dylan
"What's money? 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, Musician
Small: If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself
Henry Ford
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself"
Henry Ford, Businessman
Small: Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome
Arthur Ashe
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome"
Arthur Ashe, Athlete
Small: Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom
Euripides
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom"
Euripides, Poet
Small: Shes the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong
Mae West
"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong"
Mae West, Actress
Small: Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom
George S. Patton
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"
George S. Patton, Soldier
Small: If you have no critics youll likely have no success
Malcolm X
"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success"
Malcolm X, Activist
Small: Failure is success if we learn from it
"Failure is success if we learn from it"
Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
Small: I dont see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal
Jerry B. Jenkins
"I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal"
Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist
Small: Success breeds success
Mia Hamm
"Success breeds success"
Mia Hamm, Athlete
Small: I have had all of the disadvantages required for success
"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success"
Larry Ellison, Businessman
Small: One thing that success has taught me is censorship
"One thing that success has taught me is censorship"
Tracey Emin, Artist
Small: The great recipe for success is to work, and always work
"The great recipe for success is to work, and always work"
Leon Gambetta, Politician
Small: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value
Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
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