Success Quotes: 45 Words of Wisdom from Famous People*

  Success leaves clues. The people who made it big all shared one thing: the right mindset.

Here are 45 success quotes from entrepreneurs, leaders, and legends. Learn from them.

*1-15*
1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
2. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
3. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
4. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
5. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
6. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
7. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
8. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
9. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
10. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
11. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
12. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
13. Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference. – Roy T. Bennett
14. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
15. Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

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16. I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. – Estée Lauder
17. Success seems to be connected with action. – Conrad Hilton
18. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee
19. Success is stumbling from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
20. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
21. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. – Albert Schweitzer
22. The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. – Bill Phillips
23. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
24. Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something. – Lee Iacocca
25. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington
26. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
27. Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction. – Napoleon Hill
28. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
29. Success is not about the money. It’s about the impact you have on the world. – Michelle Obama
30. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray
31. Success is a series of small wins. – Anonymous
32. The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith
33. Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. – James Clear
34. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
35. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
36. The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. – Charles Kingsleigh
37. Success is not in what you have, but who you have become. – Bo Bennett
38. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. – Oprah Winfrey
39. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. – Earl Nightingale
40. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach
41. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice. – Pelé
42. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
43. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
44. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
45. Your only limit is the amount of action you take. – Gary Vaynerchuk

*Take action*: Pick 1 quote. Put it on your desk. Read it daily for 30 days. 
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