Looking for some success quotes to inspire you? I have collected over a 180 plus of the best quotes about success! These quotes were collected because at some point in everyday life, we're all confronted with a choice of whether to take a risk. Whether it's leaving a miserable job, moving to a different position that new to you, starting your very own business, or even dealing with a tricky new assignment, greatness requires risk.
Continue reading to find the great words of wisdom that will motivate you in building your business, leading your life, creating success, achieving your goals, and overcoming your fears:
- "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
Bill Gates quote. - "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain quote - "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
Lao Tzu quote - "Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at."
Unknown quote - "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost quote - "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."
Oprah Winfrey quote - "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
Tony Robbins quote - "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."-- Henry David Thoreau quote
- "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on."
Sheryl Sandberg quote - "People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
Peter F. Drucker quote - "Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
e. e. cummings quote - "If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
Donald Trump quote - "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Andre Gide quote - "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
Chuck Palahniuk quote - Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary."
Iveta Cherneva quote
- "Screw it, Let's do it!"
Richard Branson quote - "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."
Oprah Winfrey quote - "The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live."
Leo F. Buscaglia quote - "Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."
Denis Waitley quote - "You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
Earl Nightingale quote - "The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations."
Deepak Chopra quote - "Do one thing every day that scares you."
Mary Schmich quote - "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso quote - "You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win."
Judith McNaught quote - "If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough."
Mario Andretti quote - "Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day."
Roger von Oech quote - "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn quote - "There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
Aristotle quote - "There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
Drew Barrymore quote - "If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."
Dhirubhai Ambani quote - "You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
Chuck Yeager quote - "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 quote - "Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."
Deepak Chopra quote - "Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
R. D. Laing quote - "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
Steve Jobs quote - "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Steve Jobs quote - "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs quote - "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
Steve Jobs quote - “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs quote - “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs quote - "The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become."
W. E. B. Du Bois quote - "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
George Addair quote - "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them."
Henry Kravis quote - "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 quote - "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 quote - "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Audre Lorde quote - "You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you."
Marissa Mayer quote - "Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."
Cadet maxim quote - "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John R. Wooden quote - "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher quote - "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."
Vince Lombardi quote - “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
Dhirubhai Ambani quote - "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission."
Anonymous quote - "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."
John Wooden quote - "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Anonymous quote - "If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn quote - "Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain."
Anonymous quote - "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."
Henry Ford quote - "If you're going through hell keep going."
Winston Churchill quote - "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Anonymous quote - "Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
Anonymous quote - "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
Oscar Wilde quote - "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
Anonymous quote - "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
Bruce Feirstein quote - "When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you."
Lolly Daskal quote - "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Ralph Nader quote - "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou quote - "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
Dale Carnegie quote - "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn quote - "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient."
Gurbaksh Chahal quote - "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."
Robert Kiyosaki quote - "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!"
T. Harv Eker quote - "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."
Jim Rohn quote - "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors."
Napoleon Hill quote - "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
Denis Waitley quote - "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
Jane Smiley quote - "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
George Bernard Shaw quote - "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Diane Ackerman quote - "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan quote - "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
Jim Ryun quote - "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
Dale Carnegie quote - "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quote - "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."
Francis Chan quote - "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
George Lorimer quote - "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like."
Mike Gafka quote - "Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others."
John C. Maxwell quote - "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
Wayne Dyer quote - "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."
Anatole France quote - "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
Dale Carnegie quote - "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals."
Booker T. Washington quote - "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
Theodore N. Vail quote - "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville quote - "Fortune sides with him who dares."
Virgil quote - “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quote - “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
Roger Babson quote - “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi quote
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi quote - “Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.”
Kelly Kim quote - “I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.'” Katherine Dunham quote
- “Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?”
Jimmy J quote - “It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
J. K Rowling quote - “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman quote - “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, 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 quote - “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Dale Carnegie quote - “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn quote
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.”
Gurbaksh Chahal quote - “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”
T. Harv Eker quote - “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein quote. - "Leap and the net will appear."
Zen saying quote - "Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."
Maxwell Maltz quote - "I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous."
Sidney Crosby quote - "There can be no vulnerability without risk. There can be no community without vulnerability. There can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
M. Scott Peck quote - "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
John A. Shedd quote - "Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson quote - "Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small."
Tim Ferriss quote - "You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive."
Elia Kazan quote - "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan quote - "Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there."
Mark Cuban quote - "When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."
Ellen DeGeneres quote - "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard quote - "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover."
H. Jackson Brown quote - "When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given."
Barbara Sher quote - “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
obert Kiyosaki quote. - "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote - "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"
Gen. George S. Patton quote - "Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
J. B. Priestley quote - "Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk--and to act."
Andre Malraux quote - "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. "
J.K. Rowling quote - "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Chinese Proverb quote - "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
Katherine Mansfield quote - "Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."
Jack Canfield quote - "Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells" by Elizabeth Taylor
- "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot quote. - "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
John D. Rockefeller quote - "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 quote - "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life."
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam quote - "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson quote - "The starting point of all achievement is desire."
Napoleon Hill quote - "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."
Robert Collier quote - "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
Thomas J. Watson quote - "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."
Michael John Bobak quote - "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing."
Philippos quote - "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absense of fear."
Mark Twain quote - "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark Twain quote - "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Bruce Lee quote - “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain quote - "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
Pablo Picasso quote - "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar quote - "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret."
Earl Nightingale quote - "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
Vidal Sassoon quote - "The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place."
Guy Kawasaki quote - "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing."
Martha Stewart quote - "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Anonymous quote - "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
Colin R. Davis quote - "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
Billy Wilder quote. - "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, 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 quote - "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney quote - "Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them."
Anonymous quote - "If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got."
Anonymous quote - "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill quote - "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly."
Proverb quote - "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy."
Anonymous quote - "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."
Vaibhav Shah quote - "Opportunities don't happen, you create them."
Chris Grosser quote - "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."
Albert Einstein quote - "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt quote - "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison quote - "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start charging for it."
Kim Garst quote - "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
David Brinkley quote - "I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself."
Albert Einstein quote. - "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist."
Anonymous quote - "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote - "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Albert Einstein quote - "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
Anonymous quote - "Do one thing every day that scares you."
Anonymous quote - "What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable."
Anonymous quote - "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
Lolly Daskal quote - "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent."
Anonymous quote - "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it."
Anonymous quote -
"Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem."
Anonymous quote - "You can do anything, but not everything.
Anonymous quote - "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
Ayn Rand quote. - "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it."
Washington Irving quote - "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote quote - “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 quote - “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 quote - “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison - “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley quote
"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
Bill Gates quote.
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