“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
I agree with 30th United States President John Calvin Coolidge. To be successful, one has to persistent. As we all know along the way to sucess, you are bound to face inevitable adversities, endless uncertainties and spirit-draining disappontment.
That’s is when one’s persistence plays its part to hold you up and keep you going, when the going is tough and unpredictable. Following closely with persistence is your resilience. The coping skills that help you overcome and handle hardships in life.
Now, I am going to share with you a good collection of quotes about success in life, which have been my personal motivator at times of my many setbacks, rejections and failures.
Keep these powerful inspiring famous quotes about success close to you, as you trudge down the rocky road to success.
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.” – Richard Bach
“The road to success runs uphill.” – Willie Davis
“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” – Al Batt
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
“You see things and say, ‘Why?’ But I dream of things that never were and say Why not?'” – George Bernard Shaw
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.” – Ovid
“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.” – Steven Spielberg
“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” – Danny Thomas
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” – Marcel Proust
“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.” – Charles Kendall Adams
“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems.” – Mark Victor Hansen
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Anthony Robbins
“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.” – David Ambrose
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” – Joseph Sugarman
“It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.” – Anthony Robbins
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.” – Woodrow Wilson
“Success is never ending, failure is never final.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
“You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” – Charles Buxton
“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.” – Mark Twain
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.” – Muhammad Ali
“The highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it.” – John Ruskin
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Carnegie
“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
“The only difference between a success and a failure is that the successful person is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do.” – J.R. Ridinger
“The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones.” – Chinese Proverb
“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” – Babe Ruth
“I’ve always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up.” – Beverly Sills
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison
“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – George Patton
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will
be.” – Harvey Mackay
“Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.” – Walt Disney
“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” – Frank Scully
“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 while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu
“If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe.” – John Maxwell
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” – Les Brown
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?'” – Brian Tracy
“Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” – Danny Thomas
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.” – Bob Brown
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small, you don’t know where it can lead.” – Julia Morgan
“Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” – William A. Ward
“Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.” – Jim Rohn
“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.” – Stanley Marcus
“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.” – Rob Gilbert
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” – Winston Churchill
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford