75 Inspiring Motivational Quotes About Success

 By Jeff Haden

Contributing editor, Inc.@jeff_haden

Sometimes the inspiration you need to achieve your dreams can be found in a few simple words of wisdom.
Success, as with most things, starts with attitude. When you're struggling, a small burst of inspiration can make a huge difference.
Here are 75 quotes about success to inspire you to keep pushing forward and achieve your dreams.

1. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." James Cameron
2. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau
3. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." John Wooden
4. "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." Lisa M. Amos
5. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn
6. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." Swami Vivekananda
7. "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." Tony Hsieh
8. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney
9. "If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do." Anonymous
10. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
11. "Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." Vaibhav Shah
12. "Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me." Denzel Washington
13. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." Chris Grosser
14. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." Albert Einstein
15. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
16. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt
17. "The best revenge is massive success." Frank Sinatra
18. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison
19. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley
20. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
21. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." Henry Ford
22. "If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
23. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." Oscar Wilde
24. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Bruce Feirstein
25. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." John D. Rockefeller
26. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Albert Einstein
28. "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
29. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Ashe
30. "People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one." Kevin Kline
31. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson
32. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." Napoleon Hill
33. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." Robert Collier
34. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." Thomas J. Watson
35. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." Michael John Bobak
36. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." Philippos
37. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." Mark Twain
38. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
39. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." Earl Nightingale
40. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon
41. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." Bill Cosby
42. "Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending." Carl Bard
43. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." Martha Stewart
44. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
45. "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
46. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
47. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." Bruce Lee
48. "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." Jimmy Spithill
49. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down." Charles F. Kettering
50. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." Gurbaksh Chahal
51. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs
52. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" T. Harv Eker
53. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." Jim Rohn
54. "The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." Napoleon Hill
55. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." Jane Smiley
56. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." George Bernard Shaw
57. "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman
58. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun
59. "Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." Francis Chan
60. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn
61. "Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan." Larry Winget
62. "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gafka
63. "Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." Baltasar
64. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret Thatcher
65. "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." Stephen Covey
66. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." G. K. Chesterton
67. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
68. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." Robert Hughes
69. "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" Robert Schuller
70. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
71. "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell
72. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success." Thomas J. Watson
73. "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
74. "Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen." Dax Shepard
75. "My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'" George Carlin