Looking for a success quote of the day to kick off your morning with fire? You’ve come to the right place. This collection brings together 250 powerful lines on winning — from athletes like Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali to inventors like Thomas Edison, builders like Henry Ford, and leaders like Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill.

In this collection (17)
- Editor’s Picks
- Success Quote of the Day on Morning Motivation for Winners
- Success Quote of the Day on The Mindset of Success
- Success Quote of the Day on Hard Work Beats Talent
- Success Quote of the Day on Failure Is Fuel
- Success Quote of the Day on Dreams Into Plans
- Success Quote of the Day on Discipline Over Motivation
- Success Quote of the Day on Courage to Begin
- Success Quote of the Day on Legends on Perseverance
- Success Quote of the Day on Business Minds on Winning
- Success Quote of the Day on Champions on Victory
- Success Quote of the Day on Writers on Achievement
- Success Quote of the Day on The Price of Greatness
- Success Quote of the Day on Stay Humble, Stay Hungry
- Success Quote of the Day on Your Time Is Now
- Frequently Asked Questions
- More Quotes to Explore
Whether you need fuel for hard work, a steadier mindset, courage after failure, or just one sharp sentence before a big day, read one success quote each morning and carry it with you. For the science of achievement itself, see Success on Wikipedia.
Editor’s Picks
| Quote | Best For |
|---|---|
| “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford | Rewiring your mindset |
| “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs | Finding your calling |
| “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela | Facing big goals |
| “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson | The daily grind |
| “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.” — Winston Churchill | Bouncing back |
| “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay | Taking control |
| “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan | Trying anyway |
| “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke | Outworking everyone |
| “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb | Getting back up |
| “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky | Taking chances |
| “Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg | Beating perfectionism |
Success Quote of the Day on Morning Motivation for Winners
Winners don’t wait for motivation to strike — they manufacture it before sunrise. These opening lines set the tone for a day built on purpose.
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle
- “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar
- “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- “Success comes to those who hustle while they wait.” — Attributed to Thomas Edison
- “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” — Unknown
- “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” — Unknown
- “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — Attributed to John D. Rockefeller
- “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” — Charles Dederich
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Success Quote of the Day on The Mindset of Success
Everything starts between your ears. The right mindset turns obstacles into raw material, so these quotes rewire how you see the game.
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “We become what we think about.” — Earl Nightingale
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt
- “Mindset is what separates the best from the rest.” — Unknown
- “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” — Joyce Brothers
- “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” — James Allen
- “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C. S. Lewis
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan
- “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” — Muhammad Ali
- “Impossible is just an opinion.” — Paulo Coelho

Success Quote of the Day on Hard Work Beats Talent
Talent gets the headlines, but effort cashes the checks. A reminder that nobody outworks a person who refuses to stop.
- “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
- “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” — Derek Jeter
- “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon
- “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.” — Pelé
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” — Muhammad Ali
- “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Jimmy Johnson
- “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” — Frank Ocean
- “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King
- “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell
- “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin
- “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou
- “Plan your work and work your plan.” — Napoleon Hill
- “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” — Samuel Goldwyn
Success Quote of the Day on Failure Is Fuel
Every champion has a private museum of failures. These lines reframe falling down as the tuition you pay for winning.
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Attributed to Thomas Edison
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.” — J. K. Rowling
- “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” — Elon Musk
- “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure.” — Thomas J. Watson
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy
- “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” — Stephen McCranie
- “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” — Michael Jordan
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
- “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Attributed to Winston Churchill
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
- “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J. K. Rowling
- “You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed.” — LeBron James
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb

Success Quote of the Day on Dreams Into Plans
A dream without a deadline is just a wish. Here’s how big thinkers turn foggy ambition into concrete targets.
- “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Attributed to Napoleon Hill
- “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell
- “All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go.” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn
- “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” — Earl Nightingale
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” — Michelangelo
- “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” — W. Clement Stone
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra
- “Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.” — Tim McGraw
- “The future depends on what you do today.” — Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay
Success Quote of the Day on Discipline Over Motivation
Motivation is a mood; discipline is a machine. The quotes below are for the days when feelings don’t show up.
- “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.” — Warren Buffett
- “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined.” — Unknown
- “Motivation gets you started. Habit keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
- “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency.” — Dwayne Johnson
- “Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.” — Robin Sharma
- “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” — James Clear
- “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” — Angela Duckworth
- “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
- “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” — Benjamin Disraeli
- “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” — Winston Churchill
- “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” — Christopher Morley
- “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” — Victor Hugo
- “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” — Benjamin Disraeli
- “Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process.” — James Clear
- “Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg

Success Quote of the Day on Courage to Begin
The hardest rep is the first one. These are for standing at the edge and choosing to jump anyway.
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart
- “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” — Aristotle
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E. E. Cummings
- “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs
- “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” — Elon Musk
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.” — Winston Churchill
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T. S. Eliot
- “Leap and the net will appear.” — John Burroughs
- “Fortune favors the bold.” — Latin Proverb
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — Attributed to Mark Twain
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.” — Dale Carnegie
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” — Rabindranath Tagore
Success Quote of the Day on Legends on Perseverance
History’s winners share one trait: they outlasted everyone who quit. Words from people who proved it.
- “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” — Vince Lombardi
- “It’s not the will to win that matters — everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” — Bear Bryant
- “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” — Attributed to Alexander the Great
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
- “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
- “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” — Marie Curie
- “I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” — Marie Curie
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
- “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” — Leonardo da Vinci
- “I am still learning.” — Michelangelo
- “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.” — Niccolò Machiavelli

Success Quote of the Day on Business Minds on Winning
From corner offices to startups, the builders of companies think in decades. Their playbook, in their own words.
- “High expectations are the key to everything.” — Sam Walton
- “There is only one boss: the customer.” — Sam Walton
- “If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.” — Jeff Bezos
- “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” — Jeff Bezos
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” — Richard Branson
- “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.” — Richard Branson
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once.” — Mark Cuban
- “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” — Mark Cuban
- “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength.” — Sara Blakely
- “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart
- “Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch
- “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.” — Jack Ma
- “Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” — Jack Ma
- “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse.” — Jack Ma
- “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.” — Mary Kay Ash
- “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” — Andrew Carnegie
- “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie
- “The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” — Andrew Carnegie
Success Quote of the Day on Champions on Victory
Athletes know success is measured in sweat. The mindset of podiums, locker rooms, and fourth quarters.
- “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” — Michael Phelps
- “I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals.” — Mia Hamm
- “The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another.” — Serena Williams
- “I don’t like to lose — at anything.” — Serena Williams
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “I didn’t come this far to only come this far.” — Attributed to Tom Brady
- “To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win.” — Tom Brady
- “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” — Tom Landry
- “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” — Tom Landry
- “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” — Billie Jean King
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
- “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.” — Wilma Rudolph
- “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” — Jesse Owens
- “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” — Julia Child
- “Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.” — Attributed to Cristiano Ronaldo
- “I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.” — Cristiano Ronaldo
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan

Success Quote of the Day on Writers on Achievement
The people who study human nature for a living have sharp things to say about what it takes to win.
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” — Attributed to Oscar Wilde
- “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” — Oscar Wilde
- “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” — Oscar Wilde
- “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J. K. Rowling
- “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” — J. K. Rowling
- “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paulo Coelho
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
- “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life.” — Paulo Coelho
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Attributed to Mark Twain
- “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” — Steve Jobs
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
- “I have learned that 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
- “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.” — Helen Keller
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” — Helen Keller
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Success Quote of the Day on The Price of Greatness
Nobody gets the prize without paying for it. An honest look at what success actually costs.
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” — Vince Lombardi
- “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” — George Sheehan
- “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” — Arthur Brisbane
- “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” — Dale Carnegie
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
- “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” — Bill Cosby
- “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered.” — Orison Swett Marden
- “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak
- “Great things never come from comfort zones.” — Unknown
- “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
- “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
- “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” — David Frost
- “Try a little harder to be a little better.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
- “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch
- “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Attributed to Confucius
- “To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.” — Buddha

Success Quote of the Day on Stay Humble, Stay Hungry
Winning once is luck; winning twice is character. How the greats keep growing after they’ve made it.
- “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” — C. S. Lewis
- “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” — Rick Warren
- “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” — Thomas Merton
- “The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.” — Helmut Schmidt
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Attributed to Charles Darwin
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl
- “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” — Viktor Frankl
- “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” — Viktor Frankl
- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” — Harvey S. Firestone
- “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis
- “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell
- “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” — John C. Maxwell
- “The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members better.” — Tony Dungy
- “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader
Success Quote of the Day on Your Time Is Now
Not tomorrow, not someday — today. Closing lines for anyone done waiting for permission.
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
- “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” — Mark Twain
- “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” — Pope John Paul II
- “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” — Babe Ruth
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
- “The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Attributed to Buddha
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn
- “Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
- “Time waits for no one.” — Folklore
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a good success quote of the day?
A good one is short enough to remember and sharp enough to act on. Try this: “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford. Read it in the morning and let it set your mindset for the day.
Who said “Success is not final, failure is not fatal”?
The line “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” is widely attributed to Winston Churchill, though its exact origin is debated. A verified Churchill-adjacent line in this collection is “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.”
How do I use a daily success quote?
Pick one quote each morning, write it down or save it to your phone, and recall it when the day gets hard. Pairing a single line with one concrete action beats reading fifty quotes passively.
What is the best short quote about success?
For pure brevity, “Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg is hard to beat. It kills procrastination in five words.
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