Many people say they want to be successful, but few achieve success in any meaningful way.
That said, one person’s success is another person’s failure.
We all have different ideas about what constitutes success.
For some people, it’s all about owning a million-dollar mansion, whereas for others, just being happy and content would be their measure of success.
What does success mean to you?
There are 21 thought-provoking quotes about success in today’s post to help you reflect on what success means to you.
However you choose to define success, it is possible to get to where you’d like to be with effort and determination.
Just decide where you want to go and don’t stop until you get there, though not before you’ve read today’s thought-provoking quotes about success.
Not only are they thought-provoking, but you should find them motivating and inspirational too, dear reader. I hope so, anyway.
Quotes about success:
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. ~Stephen King
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~Herman Cain
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. ~Richard Branson
- Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
- The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis
- You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer
- If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. ~Olin Miller
- The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. ~Roy L. Smith
- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~Lucille Ball
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
- You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. ~Albert Einstein
- Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln
- Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden
- Spend eighty per cent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. ~Brian Tracy
- Success means having the courage, determination, and will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ~George Sheehan
- The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli
- 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
- Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. ~Napoleon Hill
- You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
- The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine
- Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier
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