Top 50 Best Success Quotes

By Spencer Lanoue / Source: Inventor Spot

A great quote is like a double-shot of inspiration straight to your brain. Here's a
compilation of 50 amazing quotes about success.

Contributing authors include Edison, Einstein, Picasso, Twain, Mandela,
Nightingale, Churchill, Peale and other greats. Enjoy.
Top 50 Best Quotes About Success
1. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest
secret." Earl Nightingale
2. "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
3. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this
second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." Thomas J. Watson
4. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
Pablo Picasso

5. "Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of
your life." Ryan Blair
6. "Failure is not in your vocabulary; rather, you convert all working
experiences, be they positive or negative, into fuel for future success."
Anonymous
7. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear." Mark
Twain
8. "Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of
learning." Dwayne Michael Carter
9. "Top Achievers are improvisors, not perfectionists. If you want to create more success in your
life you have to move forward not knowing all the answers." Douglas Vermeeren
10. "Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet." Eliphas Levi

11. "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

12. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." Robert Collier
13. "All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into
your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your
inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of
your life, you begin to control your destiny." R. Sharma

14. "The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind." Chae Richardson
15. "Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should
remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation." Thomas
Edison
16. "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come
across in your life." Dr. APJ Kalam
17. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson
18. "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always
some one to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising to tempt you to
believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some
of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has it's victories, but it takes brave men and
women to win them." Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. "How you see the world first determines your attitude, and then your attitude determines how
the world sees you." Mark Amend
20. "As soon as you realize that you don't need anyone to make it in life. That's your first step
towards success." Vusi Ndlovu
21. "Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change." Anonymous
22. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." Napolean Hill
23. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." Michael John Bobak
24. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind
failing." Philippos
25. "There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the
fire."Norman Vicent Peale
26. "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy." Anonymous
27. "Seek first to understand, then to be understood" Stephen Covey
28. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to
conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy." Dale Carnegie
29. "When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is." Steve Pavlina
30. "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission." Anonymous
31. "When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by
the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and was only tied on to scare
away the timid adventurers." Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. "An object at rest tends to stay at rest, an object in motion tends to stay in motion." Isaac
Newton
33. "The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will
have." Norman Vincent Peale

34. "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude." Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. "Capital isnt scarce; vision is." Sam Walton
36. "Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners." Robert T. Kiyosaki
37. "Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but thats exactly what it is." Anita Roddick
38. "Action generates motivation; not the other way around." Mark Amend
39. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
40. "Ive been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the
vision I have." Russell Simmons
41. "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." Proverb
42. "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one
you are capable of living." Nelson Mandela
43. "Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do." John Wooden

44. "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be
challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step
you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-
confident and more and more successful." Mark Victor Hansen
45. "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private
sacrifices to reach them." Vaibhav Shah
46. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert
Einstein
47. "Success belongs to those who believe in the power of their ideas." Michael Irwin
48. "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make
up our minds to walk boldly through them." Orison Swett Marden
49. "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your
thoughts breaks their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in
every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces,
faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever
dreamed yourself to be." Patanjali
50. "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and
neighbors." Napoleon Hill