Success Quotes

Success leaves clues. These quotes from the world's highest achievers reveal the mindsets, habits, and principles that drive extraordinary results — and prove that greatness is available to anyone willing to work for it.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

— Winston Churchill

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

— Vidal Sassoon

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

— Henry David Thoreau

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

— Winston Churchill

"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

— John D. Rockefeller

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

— Colin R. Davis

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

— Dale Carnegie

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

— Estée Lauder

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

— John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"Do not let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

— Robert Kiyosaki

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

— Herman Melville

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do."

— Jim Rohn

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

— Steve Jobs

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

— Albert Schweitzer

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

— Albert Einstein

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

— Colin Powell

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

— Maya Angelou

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength or knowledge but rather a lack of will."

— Vince Lombardi

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It is quite simple, really: double your rate of failure."

— Thomas J. Watson

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