100 Quotes about Success and Achievement

Remember, success is not a destination; it’s a continuous journey. Let these quotes about success and achievement fuel your determination and propel you toward your dreams.

Success is a journey that demands unwavering determination, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Whether you’re striving for personal growth, professional accomplishments, or both, the wisdom of those who have walked the path before us can be a guiding light.

In this blog post, we delve into the minds of visionaries, leaders, and thinkers who have left their indelible mark on the world. Their words resonate across time, inspiring us to reach for the stars and overcome obstacles.

100 Quotes about Success and Achievement

1. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone

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

3. “Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

5. “Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.” – Paul J. Meyer

6. “Without failure there is no achievement.” – John C. Maxwell

7. “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” – Bo Bennett

8. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill

9. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

10. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett

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11. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

12. “It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.” – Orison Swett Marden

13. “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

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

15. “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” – Orison Swett Marden

16. “Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.” – Roy T. Bennett

17. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

18. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn

19. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown

20. “Success is becoming what you want to be, and is attained by applying your energies to your work, and you will apply your energies in exact proportion to the intensity of your desire.” – Wallace D. Wattles

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21. “I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” – Zig Ziglar

22. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” – Earl Nightingale

23. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie

24. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” – Brian Tracy

25. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn

26. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

27. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett

28. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

29. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

30. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

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31. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand

32. “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

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

34. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” – Ted Turner

35. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden

36. “The path to success is to take massive determined action.” – Tony Robbins

37. “Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.” – John Dewey

38. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

39. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

40. “Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.” – Les Brown

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41. “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” – Robert H. Schuller

42. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson

43. “When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” – Roy Bennett

44. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

45. “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden

46. “Don’t give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you’re going to get out of it.” – Alphonso Davies

47. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

48. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett

49. “Never mistake activity for achievement.” – John Wooden

50. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford

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51. “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

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

53. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – Napoleon Hill

54. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

55. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – W. Clement Stone

56. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

57. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

58. “When you know what you want and you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn

59. “What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.” – Norman Vincent Peale

60. “Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.” – Steve Maraboli

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

62. “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”  Conrad Hilton

63. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller

64. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

65. “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.” – Les Brown

66. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

67. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

68. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

69. “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.” – Denis Waitley

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

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71. “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

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

73. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

74. “Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.” – Oscar Wilde

75. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.” – Brian Tracy

76. “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill

77. “With your entire focus on your goal, you will reach levels of achievement that you never thought possible.” – Catherine Pulsifer

78. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

79. “If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.” – Robert Kiyosaki

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

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81. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

82. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

83. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

84. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

85. “Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live.” – Steve Maraboli

86. “Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett

87. “Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.” – Albert Camus

88. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown

89. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

90. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

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91. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray

92. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde

93. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

94. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” – Bill Cosby

95. “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” – Zig Ziglar

96. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

97. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

98. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee

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

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

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