20 success quotes

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What is success? There are many definitions, but there's one thing all the greats agree on: Success only comes by persevering despite failure.

Here are 50 quotes to inspire you to succeed in the face of failures, setbacks, and barriers.

1. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

-- Winston S. Churchill

1. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

-- Herman Melville

1. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

-- Colin R. Davis

1. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-- Henry David Thoreau

1. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

-- Chris Grosser

1. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

--John D. Rockefeller

1. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

-- Thomas Jefferson

1. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

-- Ray Goforth

1. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

-- Jim Rohn

1. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

-- Albert Einstein

1. "Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

-- Winston Churchill

1. "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."

-- Tony Hsieh

1. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

-- Winston Churchill

1. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

-- G. K. Chesterton

1. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success."

-- Thomas J. Watson

1. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

• Jim Rohn