Some of the world's most accomplished people have spoken out about their own journeys toward success, their thoughts on how to attain it, and their feelings on finally reaching it.
Here are 88 quotes on success, from the world's most successful people:
1) "Eighty percent of success is showing up." —Woody Allen
2) "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." —Steve Jobs
3) "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." —Maya Angelou
4) "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." —Bill Gates
5) "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." —Barack Obama
6) "Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live." —Anne Sweeney
7) "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." —Martin Luther King Jr.
8) "Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." —Michelle Obama
10) "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." —Mary Kay Ash
11) "I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down." —Abraham Lincoln
12) "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." —Alexander Graham Bell
13) "Life is too short to dwell on what might have been." —Hillary Clinton
14) "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." —Tony Hsieh
15) "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." —Martin Luther King Jr.
16) "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." —Colin Powell
17) "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." —Franklin D. Roosevelt
18) "I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking." —Joan Rivers
19) "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." —Will Smith
20) "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." —Ayn Rand
21) "The best revenge is massive success." —Frank Sinatra
22) "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." —Winston Churchill
23) "If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped." —Melinda Gates
25) "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1." —Warren Buffett
26) "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it." —Elon Musk
27) "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." —Truman Capote
28) "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
29) "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." —Vince Lombardi
30) "I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds." —Ellen DeGeneres
31) "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." —Napoleon Bonaparte
32) "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." —Michael Dell
33) "Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do." —Nelson Mandela
34) "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." —Audrey Hepburn
35) "Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone." —Deepak Chopra
36) "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." —Walt Disney
37) "Failure is success if we learn from it." —Malcolm Forbes
38) "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." —Steve Jobs
40) "Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again." —Richard Branson
41) "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." ―Dalai Lama XIV
42) "As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future." —Indra Nooyi
43) "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." —Napoleon Hill
44) "The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance — and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." —Oprah Winfrey
45) "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." —Bruce Lee
46) "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." —John F. Kennedy
47) "Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." —Diane Sawyer
48) "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." —Wayne Gretzky
49) "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." —Abraham Lincoln
50) "Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." —Nelson Mandela
51) "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." —Henry Ford
52) "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." —Billie Jean King
53) "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." —Colin Powell
54) "Success is a great deodorant." —Elizabeth Taylor
55) "I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling." —Brad Pitt
56) "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default." —J.K. Rowling
58) "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
59) "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." ―Robert F. Kennedy
60) "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." —Thomas Jefferson
61) "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." —Bill Cosby
62) "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." —Frank Lloyd Wright
63) "If you have no critics, you'll likely have no success." —Malcolm X
64) "Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination." —Michael Phelps
65) "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." ―Oprah Winfrey
66) "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." —Donald Trump
67) "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." —Theodore Roosevelt
68) "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." —George Bernard Shaw
69) "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." —Arianna Huffington
70) "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." —Albert Einstein
72) "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." —Barack Obama
73) "I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough." —Marissa Mayer
74) "The starting point of all achievement is desire." —Napoleon Hill
75) "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." —David Brinkley
76) "It always seems impossible until it's done." —Nelson Mandela
77) "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going" —Beverly Sills
78) "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." —Albert Einstein
79) "We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than
by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind." —Martin Luther King Jr.
80) "Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive." —Donald Trump
81) "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." —Napoleon Hill
82) "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own." —Michelle Obama
83) "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." —George S. Patton
84) "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
85) "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." —Swami Sivananda
86) "I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process." —Oprah Winfrey
87) "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." —Mark Twain
88) "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan
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