Success Quotes
The right words at the right moment can reset a day, or redirect a life. This is the world's largest organized collection of profound success quotes, sorted by the 12 Pillars of Greatness and the voices who said them. Choose a Pillar below, or start scrolling. Free to explore.
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“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire to reach their potential.”
“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right.”
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”
“Progress is impossible without change and those that cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.”
