55 Insanely Good Quotes To Inspire You For Success

If there is one thing we all love reading that would be a good quote that inspires us to move and be our best selves in less than 10 words.

Yes, quotes have that power and if you are anything like me, you would have at least 3-5 favorite quotes that inspire success and can make you hustle and be your best self no matter the day of the week.

For example, one of my all-time favorite quotes is: “It always seems impossible until it’s done” by Nelson Mandela. I have it as desktop wallpaper and I write it in every planner or journal I have. It has proved itself to be true countless times that now I don’t even question the “impossible” things anymore. I go after them and keep poking and twisting things until I turn everything into a “possible” realization.

What is your favorite success quote?

If you don’t have such or would like to add one-two more to the ones you already have laying around, these are 55 smashingly good quotes to inspire success and productivity inside you.

Share them! Live and breathe through them.

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Quotes To Inspire Success

1. “Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.” – Marianne Williamson

2. “Vision without execution is just a hallucination.” – Henry Ford

3. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.” – Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

4. “Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential and sowing seeds that benefit others.”

– John C. Maxwell

5. “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” – Napoleon Hill

6. “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.” – Reba McEntire

7. “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.” – George S. Patton Jr.

8. “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.” – Douglas Pagels

9. “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.” – Israelmore Ayivor

10. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.” – Stephen Richards

Famous All-time Favorite Quotes For Success

11. “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau

12. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” – Criss Jami, Killosophy

13. “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.” – Napoleon Hil

14. “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

Flannery O’Connor

15. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

16. “To be successful, you need friends, and to be very successful, you need enemies.” – Sidney Sheldon

17. “Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” – Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

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

19. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.” – Robert Strauss

20. “There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. …But success also includes good health, energy, and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.” – Deepak Chopra

Timeless Quotes To Inspire Success

21. “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

22. “To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.” – Idowu Koyenikan

23. “Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” – Bobbe Sommer

24. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”

Zig Ziglar

25. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers

26. “My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” – Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

27. “Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.” – Robert Greene

28. “The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.” – Ben Carson

30. “Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.” – Roy T. Bennett

Quotes About Future Success

31. “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.” – Jim Henson, It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

32. “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” – Sigmund Freud

33. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

34. “When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding

35. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil

36. “If at first, you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.” – Steven Wright

37. “Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one.”

Junot Díaz

38. “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” – Criss Jami, Killosophy

39. “Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.” – Roy T. Bennett

40. “How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.” – Roy T. Bennett

41. “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.” – Criss Jami

42. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan

Last Quotes to Inspire Success

43. “Never was anything great achieved without danger.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

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

45. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do every day.” – Jason Mraz

46. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” – Wilferd Peterson

47. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson

48. “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett

49. “Success is getting what you want…

Happiness is wanting what you get.”

Dale Carnegie

50. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” – Bernard Branson

51. “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

52. “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

53. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

54. “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

55. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina Fake