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Everyone occasionally needs a little prodding. These encouraging quotes will serve as a reminder that success is achievable, whether you're embarking on a new career path or just need a boost of inspiration.
Here are success quotes for students to help you always stay positive. Short success quotes that will boost your confidence, uplift your spirit and inspire you to succeed.
125 Inspiring Quotes About Success. Quotes about success and achievement. Daily motivational quotes and sayings for success and hard work.
Inspirational Success Quotes and Sayings
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
― Colin R. Davis
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
― Wayne Huizenga
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
― John Wooden
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
― Virat Kohli
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
― Colin Powell
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
― Joyce Brothers
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
― Bill Cosby
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
― Patricia Cornwell
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
― Swami Sivananda
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
― Winston Churchill
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
― Abraham Lincoln
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
― Vidal Sassoon
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
― Herbert Bayard Swope
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
― Niccolo Machiavelli
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
― Bruce Lee
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
― Henry Ford
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.
― Conrad Hilton
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
― Coco Chanel
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
― Albert Einstein
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
― Francis Chan
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
― Roy T. Bennett
I failed my way to success.
― Thomas Edison
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
― David Brinkley
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
― Robert F. Kennedy
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
― Mark Caine
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
― John C. Maxwell
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
― Robert H. Schuller
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
― Martin Luther King Jr
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
― Mark Twain
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
― Stephen Richards
Powerful Quotes On Success
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
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
― Vince Lombardi
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
― Orson Scott Card
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it, teach yourself to be impatient.
― Gurbaksh Chahal
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
― Bill Gates
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
― Dr. Seuss
Fortune sides with him who dares.
― Virgil
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
― Napoleon Hill
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
― Thomas A. Edison
There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
― Zig Ziglar
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
― Henry David Thoreau
The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.
― Ayn Rand
The road to success is always under construction.
― Lily Tomlin
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
― John D. Rockefeller
Success is not the absence of failure, it's persistence through failure.
― Aisha Tyler
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
― Og Mandino
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
― Stephen Hawking
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
― Colin Powell
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
― Bob Dylan
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
― Edward Everett Hale
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
― W. P. Kinsella
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
― George Bernard Shaw
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
― Martin Luther King Jr
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
― Steven Wright
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
― James Cameron
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
― Winston Churchill
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
― Booker T. Washington
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
― Walt Disney
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
― Robert Kiyosaki
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
― Dale Carnegie
Road to Success Quotes
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
― Benjamin Franklin
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.
― Zig Ziglar
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
― Henry Ford
Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.
― John F. Kennedy
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
― Wilfred Peterson
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
― Shiv Khera
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
― Junot Diaz
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
― Doug Larson
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
― Truman Capote
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
― Abraham Lincoln
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
― Napoleon Hill
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
― Florence Nightingale
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
― Robert Collier
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
― Thomas J. Watson
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
― Bette Midler
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
― Steve Jobs
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
― Bill Bradley
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
I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.
― Estee Lauder
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
― C.S. Lewis
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
― Bruce Feirstein
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
― Zig Ziglar
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.
― Robert Greene
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
― Winston Churchill
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
― Winston Churchill
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
― Thomas Edison
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
― Pele
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
― Coco Chanel
The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.
― John D. Rockefeller Jr.
The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.
― Steve Maraboli
Success Quotes and Sayings - Quotes About Success
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
― Dalai Lama XIV
Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't.
― Jerry Rice
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
― Bobby Unser
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
Success is getting what you want.. Happiness is wanting what you get.
― Dale Carnegie
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
― Jim Rohn
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
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
― Mark Twain
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
― Thomas Jefferson
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
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
― Anthony Robbins
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
― Herman Melville
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.
― Oprah Winfrey
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
― Henry Ford
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
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
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
― Barack Obama
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
― Napoleon Hill
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
― Woody Allen
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
― Alexander Graham Bell
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
― Steve Maraboli
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
― Walt Disney
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
― Jim Rohn
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
― Oliver Goldsmith
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
― Jack Canfield
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
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
― Dr. Suess
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
― Abraham Lincoln
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
― Tony Robbins
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
― Steve Maraboli
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
― George S. Patton
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
― Evan Esar
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