37 GREAT Success Quotes

I know many of us spend “some” time thinking about success on a regular basis. Several people have asked me for more of the Success Quotes I mention from time to time. I have put together 37 Success Quotes which I really like and muse on.

They are in no particular order, so #1 isn’t necessarily the best nor is #37 the worst. Please don’t complain about where your favorite is on the list…they are random.

I know there are many more I could have included but this list also is not exhaustive. It’s simply 37 Success Quotes which I like. If you have a quote you like on the subject of success, share it. I’d love to see some I have never read. Here goes…

1. "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
   
   
2. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
   Bill Cosby
   
   
3. “Success is dependent on effort.”
   Sophocles
   
   
4. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted”
   David Bly
   
   
5. "Success is a journey, not a destination."
   Ben Sweetland
   
   
6. “If there is no wind, row.”
   Lain Proverb
   
   
7. "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
   Dale Carnegie
   
   
8. “A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.”
   Jan Christiaan Smuts
   
   
9. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
   Jim Rohn
   
   
10. "God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest."
    Swedish Proverb
    
    
11. “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
    Sven Goran Eriksson
    
    
12. “When you get an insight or inspiration, do something about it in twenty-four hours – or the odds are against you ever acting on it.”
    Bill Glass
    
    
13. “For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
    James Allen
    
    
14. “There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
    Christopher Morley
    
    
15. “Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
    Arnold H. Glasow
    
    
16. "Success doesn't come to you…you go to it."
    Marva Collins
    
    
17. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
    Napoleon Hill
    
    
18. “Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
    David Frost
    
    
19. "Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us."
    George Allen
    
    
20. “No one, no thing, no situation can stop you. The power to succeed is within.”
    Bille Baty

21. “Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”
    Arnold H. Glasgow

22. “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.”
    Winston Churchill

23. “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
    Albert Einstein

24. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be”
    George Sheehan

25. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
    Herman Cain

26. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
    Mark Twain

27. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    
    

28. “We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.”
    Rudolf Dreikurs

29. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
    Benjamin Disraeli

30. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
    Mario Andretti

31. “You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.”
    Jerome Bruner

32. “Victory comes not by strength, wisdom or riches but by getting up again, each time we stumble and fall.”
    Bille Baty

33. "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
    Phillip Adams

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

35. “Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.”
    Neil Kendall

36. “Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
    Ross Perot

37. “Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.”
    Paul J. Meyer

Keep Believing…