Introduction:
Welcome to a curated collection of quotes about success! Success is a concept that transcends boundaries, cultures, and languages. It’s the achievement of goals, the fulfillment of dreams, and the realization of one’s potential. Whether you’re embarking on your journey to master the English language or seeking inspiration in any endeavor, these quotes offer timeless wisdom and motivation from diverse voices across history and backgrounds.
Success is not merely about reaching the destination; it’s also about the journey, the lessons learned, and the resilience demonstrated along the way. Each quote encapsulates a unique perspective on success, providing insights into perseverance, determination, and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
As you explore these quotes, ponder their meanings, and absorb the wisdom they impart, may you find encouragement, empowerment, and a renewed sense of purpose in your pursuit of success. Let these words serve as guiding stars on your path, illuminating the way forward and reminding you of the boundless potential within you. So, without further ado, let’s delve into this treasury of inspiration and wisdom, crafted to inspire and empower English language learners on their quest for success.
While-reading Instructions:
As you read through the list of quotes about success provided below, consider the following questions to deepen your understanding and reflection:
- Which quotes resonate with you personally, and why?
- Do any of the quotes challenge your current perspective on success? If so, how?
- Are there any quotes that you find particularly motivating or inspiring? Why?
- How do these quotes relate to your own goals and aspirations?
- Can you identify any common themes or ideas shared among the quotes?
- Do any of the quotes remind you of experiences or individuals in your own life?
- How might you apply the wisdom contained in these quotes to your journey toward success?
A belief
I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan | motivational
A failure
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison | motivational
A man’s growth
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | friendship
A pessimist versus an optimist
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill | motivational
Accepting failure
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan | motivational
Against it
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston Churchill | success
All great deeds
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant”s revolving door.
Albert Camus | motivational
An artist cannot fail
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley | art
Be careful
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
Lao Tzu | dreams
Becoming a man of success
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein | success
Better questions
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins | success
Champion
I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali | motivational
Change
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 | motivational
Climbing
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare | motivational
Combination for success
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill | patience
Constant dripping
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius | motivational
Consult not your fears
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think
not about your frustrations, but about your unfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with
what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII | motivational
Conviction
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali | motivational
Critics
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
Malcolm X | motivational
DESIRE
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill | success
Discipline is the soul of an army
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington | discipline
Do what you have to do
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus | motivational
Do you wish to rise?
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine | motivational
Dominion over yourself
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Leonardo da Vinci | discipline
Don’t become discouraged
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison | motivational
Dreams and success
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau | dreams
Easy or difficult
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller | motivational
Essentials
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison | success
Every adversity
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill | success
Failing
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan | motivational
Failure
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill | motivational
From failure to failure
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill | success
Glory
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Author unknown | motivational
Good man or sinner?
In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco | success
Happiness and success
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller | happiness
Hard to fail!
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt | motivational
How far?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot | motivational
I had a friend
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln | friendship
I have not failed
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison | motivational
Impossible
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela | motivational
Inaction
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci | motivational
Intelligence without ambition
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali | motivational
It begins with a single step
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu | motivational
It freed me
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs | creativity
It is a rough road
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Seneca | motivational
key to success
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill | money
Like a butterfly
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali | motivational
Limits
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller | motivational
Limits of the possible
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke | motivational
Luck
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Denzel Washington | motivational
Make mistakes!
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that’s where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. | motivational
Making mistakes
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw | success
Man of success
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein | success
Many of life’s failures
Many of life”s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison | motivational
Men capable of real action
Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.
Thucydides | success
Negative situation
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan | motivational
Never
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha | motivational
No one is born fully-formed
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
Paulo Freire | motivational
Not in ease and quiet
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller | strength
Not to please you
I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe | success
Not to yield
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson | motivational
Nothing is impossible
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great | motivational
Obstacles
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan | motivational
The greater the Obstacle
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere | motivational
Originality
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville | success
Our dreams
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney | motivational
Our greatest weakness
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison | motivational
Out of suffering
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran | motivational
Persevere
Leave no stone unturned.
Euripides | motivational
Ploughing a field
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown | motivational
Reaction
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus | motivational
Resolution to succeed
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln | motivational
Resolution to succeed
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln | success
Responsible
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere | motivational
Risks
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali | success
Secret of success
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain | food
Seek a newer world
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson | motivational
Smile
Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.
Author unknown | motivational
Stop acting so small
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi | motivational
Straight in the eye
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller | motivational
Strike the iron
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague | motivational
Strong enough
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill | success
Strong lives
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand | motivational
Stumbling
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill | success
Success equation
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein | success
Success
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela | money
Success and failure
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson | developmental
Success and failure
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche | success
Success and hatred
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Marilyn Monroe | success
Success is a lousy teacher
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill Gates | success
Success is not final
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill | success
Successful marriage
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin | marriage
Succession of changes
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens | time
Succession of errors
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley | truth
Succession of lessons
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller | life
The mind and success
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill | success
The chance
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson | developmental
The idea that success spoils people
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham | success
The introduction of a new order of things
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli | politics
The lessons of failure
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates | success
The mountains ahead
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali | motivational
The path to success
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins | success
The secret of success
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’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Tony Robbins | life
The soul of an army
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington | discipline
The starting point
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill | success
They happened to things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci | motivational
Think twice before you speak
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill | success
To be a successful father
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway | fathers
Triumphs
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Author unknown | motivational
Two mistakes
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth – not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha | motivational
Undervalued
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt | motivational
Victory is always possible
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill | success
Vision
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
We can do anything
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller | motivational
Well done!
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin | motivational
What he could have
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre | motivational
What is in your power
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus | motivational
What they can become
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul Sartre | motivational
When I let go
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu | motivational
When things fall apart
Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
Marilyn Monroe | motivational
Without your consent
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt | motivational
You are right!
Whether you think you can or can’t, you are right.
Author unknown | motivational
You can
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Henry David Thoreau | motivational
You can win
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt | motivational
You’ll make progress
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Barack Obama | motivational
