Quotes About Success, Achievement, and Small Victories
Achieve anything you set your mind to with these motivational words of wisdom.
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
— Sarah Brown
“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.”
— F. W. Nichol
“If you want to fly, you’ve got to give up the thing that weighs you down.”
— Toni Morrison
“Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.”
— David Brooks
“Treat every small victory like you just won the Superbowl.”
― Lewis Howes
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert J. Collier
“Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III
“Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, but what you do consistently.”
— Marie Forleo
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“You are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.”
— Negeena Sadat
“I failed my way to success.”
— Thomas Edison
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
— Brian Tracy
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.”
— Unknown
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
— Colin Powell
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
— Vince Lombardi
“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
— Harry Hoover
“Success is a staircase, not a doorway.”
— Dottie Walters
“It’s the small wins on the long journey that we need in order to keep our confidence, joy and motivation alive.”
― Brendon Burchard
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”
— Zig Ziglar
“All great achievements require time.”
— Maya Angelou
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vidal Sassoon
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
— Bobby Unser
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
— Swami Sivananda
“Tiny victories are like gems scattered on your journey, notice them.”
― Emma Xu
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
— David Brinkley
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
— Thomas Edison
“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.”
— Mike Gafka
“Track your small wins to motivate your big accomplishments.”
― Teresa Amabile
“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.”
— T. Harv Eker
“Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.”
— Sun Tzu
“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.”
— Unknown
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don’t live in a perfect world.”
— Joyce Meyer
“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
— Ariana Huffington
“You’re never too old to celebrate small victories!”
― Madhura Deshpande
“The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.”
— Brian Tracy
“Success is a series of small victories.”
— Unknown
“Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You have to be happy for the small victories. If you aren’t happy for the small victories then you might never be happy.”
― Lucas Welby
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”
— Reba McEntire
“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.”
― Bonnie Blair
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
“The difference between try and triumph is a little 'umph’.”
— Marvin Phillips
“When we fail to acknowledge and celebrate small victories, we get discouraged and the flame inside us starts to dwindle.”
― Unknown
“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
― Louis L’Amour
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
— Steve Jobs
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.”
— Arianna Huffington
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
— Maya Angelou
“Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.”
― Kara Goucher
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in.”
— Charles Kettering
“For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”
― Emmitt Smith
“Little victories lead to bigger victories that affect the battles that eventually win the war. Winning begins small.”
― Travis J. Hedrick
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
— Joe Girard
“A champion is simply someone who did not give up when they wanted to.”
— Tom Landry
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The road to success is always under construction.”
— Lily Tomlin
“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance — and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Every little victory counts.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
— Nelson Mandela
“There is always room at the top.”
— Daniel Webster
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan
“Don’t wait until you’ve reached your goal to be proud of yourself. Be proud of yourself every step of the way.”
― Stephanie Averkamp
“The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.”
— Sun Yat-sen
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
— John Wooden
“The path from dreams to success does exist.”
― Kalpana Chawla