Reach New Heights in 2023 With These 50 Success Quotes  (2024)

Whether a person is growing in their career, trying to start a business, or is in school, it’s natural to wonder if the right path is being followed. Without the proper insulation, self-doubt can creep in like a winter chill. Fortunately, leaning on the wisdom and habits of successful people can provide the encouragement and confidence to keep going—no matter what questions or challenges arise.

Here are 50 motivational success quotes to stick to your laptop, mirror, or vision board. With these leaders’ words, be reminded that “failure is not fatal.”

Famous Success Quotes From Entrepreneurs

1. “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

2. “Success is not the key to success. The key is to be valuable.” —Seth Godin

3. “Success is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.” —Zig Ziglar

4. “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” —Arnold H. Glasow

5. “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” —Stephen Richards

Success Quotes From Celebrities and Public Figures

6. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs

7. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” —Vidal Sassoon

8. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Oprah Winfrey

9. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” —Mahatma Gandhi

10. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville

Inspirational Success Quotes

11. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill

12. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis

13. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey

14. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso

15. “I am not a product of my circ*mstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey

16. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney

17. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

18. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” —Dalai Lama

Success Quotes About Hard Work and Perseverance

19. “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” —Sumner Redstone

20. “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

21. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.” —George Washington

22. “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.” —Tommy Hilfiger

23. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” —Unknown

Success Quotes on Goal Setting and Achievement

24. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

25. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” —Tony Robbins

26. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” —Napoleon Hill

27. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” —Jim Rohn

28. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs

29. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” —James Cameron

Success Quotes on Overcoming Failure and Adversity

30. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison

31. “I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan

32. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” —J.K. Rowling

33. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” —Mark Zuckerberg

34. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela

35. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie

36. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill

Success Quotes on Leadership and Teamwork

37. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” —Ralph Nader

38. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” —Andrew Carnegie

39. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” —Simon Sinek

40. “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit.” —Peter Drucker

41. “The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” —John C. Maxwell

42. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” —Henry Ford

43. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team.” —John Wooden

Success Quotes on Personal Growth and Self-Improvement

44. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

45. “Invest in yourself. Get all the knowledge you can.” —Warren Buffett

46. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

47. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella

48. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin

49. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho

50. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden

Success Is a Journey

Nothing great was ever achieved overnight. Building a life of value and abundance takes time, effort, courage, and strength. Challenges will arise and mistakes will be made, but it’s having the courage to continue that breeds success. As Sparky Anderson once said, “Success isn’t something that just happens—success is learned, success is practiced, and then it is shared.”

Book recommendations for personal success and motivation:

• The 1% Rule by Tommy Baker
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Continue your journey by reading How to Be Successful: 6 Ways to Achieve Your Goals