69 Motivational Success Quotes That Will Inspire You To Push Harder

If you are looking for motivational success quotes and quotes on success definition and how to achieve success, you are in the right place.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. “

If you believe you can achieve success, you will eventually. But first, you have to be clear about what success means to you.

What is the definition of success? And what does it take to be successful? These are the questions we all ask ourselves at some point in life.

Merriam-Webster defines success as a favorable or desired outcome as well as the attainment of wealth, favor or eminence. While Urban Dictionary says success is not having to post your achievements on social media because everyone already knows about it.

Does success equal money or any form of material abundance? Or is it about having fame, or love, or a happy family? Will success bring happiness?

We may not have a clear answer to each of these questions. But digging deep into the definition of success or reading success quotes is a process of discovering our own purpose. Without a clear purpose, or goal, or a “why” in mind, we can’t go far.

With that in mind, here is a collection of success quotes from celebrities, billionaires and top scholars. If you find yourself under-motivated or feel like at a loss trying to find your own purpose, these inspirational quotes can be a whip much needed.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

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

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston S. Churchill

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

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

Success is being at peace inside of yourself.
Lewis Howes

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

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
E. James Rohn

Success is loving life and daring to live it.
Maya Angelou

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Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
John C. Maxwell

Success is adding value to the world through your unique gifts.
Lewis Howes

It’s not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether or not our work fulfills us.
Malcolm Gladwell

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Johnny Cash

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
Jim Rohn

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

No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want.
Pablo

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston S. Churchill

If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck, and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.
Steve Maraboli

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Dalai Lama XIV

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
Oprah Winfrey

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.
Jaymin Shah

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

Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don’t wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.
John C Maxwell

Don’t fear to fail, fear to miss out on taking the countless opportunities this world has to offer you.
Jaymin Shah

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

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

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.
Deepak Chopra

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Napoleon Hill

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
Roy T. Bennett

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
Malcolm Gladwell

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

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
Eric Thomas

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
Napoleon Hill

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers

If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Isaac Asimov

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.
Tony Robbins

You wanna know which ring is my favorite? The next one.
Tom Brady

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
W. P. Kinsella

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time, we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
Brian Tracy

The most successful people in life recognize that in life, they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.
Mark Manson

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
Roy T. Bennett

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
John Maxwell

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
Tim Fargo

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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee

An entrepreneur sees things not only for what they are but also for what they could be.
Idowu Koyenikan

The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin

Which of these quotes on success resonate with you? Do you share the same success definition? Tell me in the comment!

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