160 Short Success Quotes for Motivation, Work and Making Your Dreams Real

Sometimes we stumble or fall. Or have rough day at work. Or maybe a tough week in life overall.

If that’s the case for you, then today’s post will help you out.

In it you’ll find 160 of the most positive and motivational short success quotes.

Timeless words of wisdom to give you a jolt of positive energy. A new perspective on a tough situation you’re in.

And a renewed focus on what truly matters to you so you can keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams.

Short and Motivational Quotes for Success

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

“What we think, we become.”
– Buddha

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
– Diana Scharf Hunt

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
– Jim Rohn

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
– Robin Sharma

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
– Bo Bennett

Short Quotes for Motivation at Work

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
– Stephen Covey

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.”
– Roger Staubach

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills

“Stop being busy. Focus instead only on the few things that will truly move you forward”
– Joy Stevens

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
– Aristotle

“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“All growth depends upon activity.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss

Funny and Short Success Quotes for Less Stress

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
– W. C. Fields

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– A. A. Milne

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir

“I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
– Bill Murray

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
– Henry Kissinger

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain

Short Success Quotes on Making Your Dreams Real

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle.”
– Kobe Bryant

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
– Harriet Tubman

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.”
– Bruce Lee

“Show them what crazy dreams can do.”
– Nike

“Dream small or dream big. But most importantly, keep dreaming throughout your whole life.”
– Unknown

“The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.”
– Helen Keller

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”
– Tony Hsieh

“What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it.”
– Jay Shetty

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

Short Success Quotes and Sayings to Help You Deal With Failure

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
– Joan Collins

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Failure teaches. Failure builds character. Failure is, in a way, a friend.”
– Rip Miller

“Failure is success in progress.”
– Albert Einstein

“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.”
– Michael Jordan

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
– H.G. Wells

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not know how close they were when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville

“Never, never, never give up.”
– Winston Churchill

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you.”
– Michael Jordan

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
– Robert F. Kennedy

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

Short Success Quotes to Give You a Jolt of Positive Energy

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Everything worthwhile is uphill.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Simplicity makes me happy.”
– Alicia Keys

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
– John Keats

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
– Omar Khayyam

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Win from within.”
– Usain Bolt

“Stop whining, start grinding.”
– Eric Thomas

“Be yourself. Think for yourself. Make this life what YOU want it to be. ”
– Rip Miller

“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.”
– LeBron James

“Conformity gets you nowhere.”
– Neil Strauss

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”
– Emily Dickinson

“To grow you must suffer.”
– David Goggins

“Progress is the ultimate motivation.”
– Tony Robbins

“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“Obstacles are the cost of greatness.”
– Robin Sharma

“All the power is within you. You can do anything.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“If you want something, go get it.”
– Sahil Bloom

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

Want more motivation to make your goals and dreams real? Then have a look at these positive success quotes, the short work quotes here and also this one with lots and lots of quotes about hope.