Whether we admit it or not, the dreams and goals of every individual are motivated by one dominating factor, success. In whichever field you have chosen, you have chosen it because you believe it will allow you to achieve success. Let’s be real now, who doesn’t wish to be successful! But the reality is you will not become successful overnight and here is where the problem begins because everyone wants success but without the work.
There is a lot of turbulence and obstacles on the journey to success. These obstacles that face most individuals on their path to success can be demotivating and can influence individuals to give up and adopt a “loser” mentality. The problem is that many of us allow this to happen to us. We become overwhelmed with the obstacles and challenges we face and allow ourselves to give up on our hopes and dreams. However, we can not let this happen – we must not let anything get in our way. There is a saying I try to remember in my everyday life:
It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible
This saying is crucial in reminding us that the obstacles we face are temporary and are simply something we have to overcome. This is how we have to look at our journey towards success. With this in mind, I have put together a list of 43 of my favorite quotes about being successful.
43 Motivational Quotes About Being Successful
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
- “Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.” – Bob Brown
- “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
- “Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.” – Sam Walton
- “Success is my only option, failure’s not.” – Eminem
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Alva Edison
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”– Mark Twain
- “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Courage is one step ahead of fear.” – Coleman Young
- “Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – Unknown Author
- “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
- “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
- “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
- “Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” – Lydia M. Child
- “There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.” – Jim Lovell
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.” – Steve Harvey
- “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” – Zig Ziglar
- “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
- “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly
- “Become so curious and obsessed with one thing that you forget everything else. Follow it, drink it, dive deep in it, master it. Remarkable results need remarkable actions.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” – Margaret Thatcher
- “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. – Bill Bradley
- Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.” – Erma Bombeck
- “There is only one kind of success that really matters: the success of transforming ourselves, transforming our afflictions, fear, and anger. This is the kind of success, the kind of power, that will benefits us and others without causing any damage.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.” – Tennessee Williams
- “Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.” – Robert Greene
- “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama
