30 Quotes to Inspire You for Being Successful

 

What Successful People Think

 

1. “There is no success without hardship.” – Sophocles

 

2. “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life. It’s about what you inspire others to do.” – Anonymous

3. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” – David Brinkley

4. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. It is: try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

 

5. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Elinor Smith

6. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly

7. “The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.” – Israelmore Ayivor 

8. “The secret of success is sincerity.” – Jean Giraudoux

 

9. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus, and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” – Elbert Hubbard

 

10. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell

 

 

What Attitude the Successful People Have

11. “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

12. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti

13. “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

 

14. “The real secret of success is enthusiasm.” – Walter Chrysler

15. “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes

16. “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison

 

17. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

18. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

19. “They succeed because they think they can.” – Virgil

 

20. “All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” – Viola Davis

 

 

 

How the Successful People Achieved Success

21. “Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles

22. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

 

23. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” – W. Clement Stone

24. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

 

25. “Success is my only option. Failure’s not.” – Eminem

26. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli

27. “The key to success is to develop a winning edge.” – Brian Tracy

28. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins

29. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

 

30. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga