100 Powerful Success Quotes You Need To Achieve Your Dreams

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What do you want out of life?

No matter your goal, the only path to success is through hard work.

And while you are on your journey of success, you will experience failure at times. You need to learn to push through this failure, otherwise you will never reach your goals.

But the journey is long and many people need motivation along the way.

So I came up with 100 quotes about success, hard work and failing to inspire you.

I’ve found that no matter the situation I am in, these quotes offer me the kickstart that I need to push through any difficulty and keep moving forward.

100 Powerful Success Quotes

Quotes About Success and Failure

success quotes

#1. “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller

#2. “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


#3. “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown


#4. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Unknown

#5. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

#6. “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.” – Unknown

#7. “No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself.” – Unknown

#8. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

Richard Bach Quote

#9. “Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.” – Richard Bach

#10. “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” – George Burns

#11. “Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.” – Marilyn Vos Savant

#12. “Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” – Og Mandino

#13. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” – Zig Ziglar

#14. “If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success. If you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.” – David Ambrose

#15. “First say to yourself what you would be. And then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

#16. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

#17. “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

#18. “Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.” – Doug Larson

Theodore Vail Quote

#19. “Real difficulties can be overcome. It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore Vail

#20. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield


#21. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby


#22. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey

#23. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

#24. “The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.” – Tom Hopkins

Short Success Quotes

#25. “Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” – George S. Patton

#26. “The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.” – Unknown

#27. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

#28. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

David Lloyd George Quote

#29. “Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George

#30. “Attitudes are contagious.  Are yours worth catching?” – Dennis Mannering

#31. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale

#32. “Always ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” – Paulo Coelho

#33. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy

#34. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

#35. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James

Success Quotes For Men

#36. “Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

#37. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” – Unknown

#38. “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Barack Obama Quote

#39. “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

#40. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” – Bruce Lee

#41. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar


#42. “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa


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

#44. “Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.” – Michael Johnson

#45. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

#46. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

#48. “There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

Unknown Quote

#49. “One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don’t feel like doing it.” – Unknown

#50. “If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.” – Unknown

#51. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Motivational Quotes For Success

#52. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge

#53. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

#54. “Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” – Unknown

#55. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln

#56. “Don’t watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

#57. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

#58. “Remember, success is nothing but luck. Just ask any failure.” – Unknown

Confucius Quote

#59. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

#60. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” – Brian Tracy

#61. “There are no mistakes, save one. The failure to learn from a mistake.” – Robert Fripp

#62. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt


#63. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino


#64. “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill

#65. “Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.” – Arnold Glasow

#66. “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

#67. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Spencer Johnson

#68. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

John Maxwell Quote

#69. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell

#70. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve. The fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

#71. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson

Success Quotes For Work

#72. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

#73. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

#74. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

#75. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

#76. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

#77. “Follow your instincts. You never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.” – Lulu Guinness

#78. “Don’t let your fear decide your future.” – Shalane Flanagan

Dale Carnegie Quote

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

#80. “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


#81. “The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building.” – Robert Collier


#82. “It is your determination and persistence that will make you a successful person.” – Kenneth Hutchins

#83. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

#84. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki

#85. “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill

Success Quotes For Students

#86. “Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.” – Unknown

#87. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

#88. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

George Addair Quote

#89. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

#90. “There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true self.” – William James

#91. “Success is what comes after you stop making excuses.” – Luis Galarza

#92. “Failure is a great teacher. If you’re open to it every mistake has a lesson to offer.” – Oprah Winfrey

#93. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis


#94. “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.” – Booker T. Washington


#95. “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” – Tony Robbins

#96. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

#97. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

#98. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

#99. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

Unknown Quote

#100. “I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of life.” – Unknown

Final Thoughts

There are 100 quotes about success, hard work, and failing to inspire you.

Remember, at the end of the day, it is up to you to see your goal achieved.

There will be obstacles and issues you face all the time.

The successful people are the ones that push through these tough times and keep trying.

It won’t be easy, but the end result is worth it if you stick with it.

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