Success is the achievement of desired goals or outcomes. It is the result of hard work, determination, and perseverance. Success is subjective and varies from person to person. It can be found in personal accomplishments, professional achievements, or fulfilling relationships. Ultimately, success is about finding fulfillment and happiness in one’s endeavors.
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson
Success Quotes for Entrepreneurs
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” —Steve Jobs
“Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.” —Louis Pasteur
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese proverb
“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
“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua J. Marine
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” —G. K. Chesterton
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela
“There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” —Heather Bresch
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather
“I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” —Jill Konrath
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau
“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.” —Pelé
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” —Bill Gates
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” —Jim Rohn
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” —Caterina Fake
“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
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened, or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” —Paulo Coelho
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas Edison
“Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” —Michael Jordan
“No great achiever—even those who made it seem easy—ever succeeded without hard work.” —Jonathan Sacks
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” —Bernice Johnson Reagon
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” —Harry Golden
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” —Arianna Huffington
“Success is the sum of small efforts—repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey
“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” —Robert H. Schuller
“If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” —Marissa Mayer
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” —Pierre Omidyar
“A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” —Colin Powell
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” —Bill Gates
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” —Tony Hsieh
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure.” —Thomas J. Watson
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” —Chuck Yeager
“There is no substitute for hard work.” —Thomas Edison
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather, become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell
“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” —Roger Crawford
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” —Venus Williams
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” —Conrad Hilton
