61 Success Quotes To Provide Inspiration In Life And Workplace

What is success? How can we describe a successful person? Most people describe success based on the number of accumulated properties one owns, some base theirs on the ability to exercise authority or influence over a group of persons. 

The fact remains that everyone wants to be successful in his/her life. We all desire to get that sense of accomplishment in our work place, schools, unions, business etc. 

Success entails hard work and commitment to one’s set goals; the path may not be all rosy but the ability to persevere and stay inspired is the key to achieving one’s success goals.

We have carefully handpicked a collection of success quotes from both famous and people of great minds to help you stay inspired and motivated towards achieving those success goals of yours.

1. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. —John Maxwell

2. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. —George Patton

3. A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. —J.P. Morgan

4. A person, who never made a mistake, never tried anything new. —Albert Einstein

5. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built. – William Shedd

6. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. – Abraham Lincoln

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7. Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. —Orrin Woodward

8. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. —Colin Powell

9. Change your thoughts and you change your world. —Norman Vincent Peale

10. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. —John D. Rockefeller

11. Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter. —Jaachynma N.E. Agu

12. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair

13. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. —William Arthur Ward

14. Forget past mistakes… Forget failures…Forget everything except what you going to do now and do it. – Will Durant

15. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. —Eleanor Roosevelt

16. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

17. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. —Mother Theresa

18. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen Covey

19. I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. —Herbert Bayard Swope

20. I never dreamed about success. I worked hard for it. – Estee Lauder

21. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. —Jim Rohn

22. If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do. —Anonymous

23. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. —Albert Einstein

24. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. —Tom Rath

25. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. —Booker T. Washington

26. In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. —Seth Godin

27. Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, and then praise them for it. —Tom Hopkins

28. Leadership is an action, not a position. —Donald McGannon

29. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

30. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill

31. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt

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32. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m possible”!—Audrey Hepburn

33. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell

34. Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. —Patrick Lencioni
35. Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. —Thomas John Carlisle

36. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. —Andre Dubus

37. Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone. —Gertrude Stein

38. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

39. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. —Henry David Thoreau

40. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way. —Ronald Reagan

41. Take up one idea. Make that one idea you’re life-think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. —Swami Vivekananda

42. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. —Bruce Feirstein

43. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. —Atisha

44. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. —John E. Southard

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

46. There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis

47. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. —Ray Goforth

48. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. —Albert Einstein

49. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. —Ronald Reagan

50. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. —Plutarch

51. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. —Napoleon Hill

52. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. —Henry Ford

53. When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. —Jerry Porras

54. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. – Eric Thomas

55. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. —Peter F. Drucker

56. Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. —Vaibhav Shah

57. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford

58. Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. —Jarod Kintz

59. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar

60. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. —Steve Jobs

61. You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. —Eleanor Roosevelt

Staying inspired and motivated daily is the key to being successful. Success quotes are positive and powerful tools that open our minds to greater opportunities. We hope you enjoyed this collection of success quotes, feel free to visit this motivational quotes site any time for more inspirational quotes.

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