These true success quotes will inspire you. True success is when you have achieved your goals and you are happy about it. Happiness is true success in life.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging true success quotes, true success sayings, and true success proverbs.
Famous True Success Quotes
- “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” ~ George Edward Woodberry
- “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” ~ David Frost
- “All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.” ~ Walt Disney
- “For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” ~ James Allen
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“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ~ Joyce Brothers
- “The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.” ~ Aristotle
- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” ~ Anne Frank , True success quotes love
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“True success is not a project but a journey.” ~ Myles Munroe
- “Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.” ~ Sarah Burton
- “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby
- “You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.” ~ Jon Gordon
- “Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
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“True success is … the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you’ll see he same consistent qualities all the time – qualities of one’s character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.” ~ Reggie Jackson
- “Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way to do this is to have the right people working with you – not for you, but with you. I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others.” ~ Farrah Gray
- “You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda , True success quotes in life
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“When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not…THAT is true success.” ~ Simon Sinek
- “I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it’s how many others you have helped along the way.” ~ Darrell Green
- “You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
- “True success – financial, personal, and professional – lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
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“True success depends more on character than on intellect.” ~ Alfred Armand Montapert
- “Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You’re trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.” ~ Andy Andrews
- “The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can’t have true success without significance.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “”…piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won’t in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you’ll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning “to flow with abundance”. So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world.”” ~ Russell Simmons
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“The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.” ~ John Legend
- “The true success is the person who invented himself.” ~ Al Goldstein
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“Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.” ~ Jeanette Lee
- “True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.” ~ D. Todd Christofferson
- “True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.” ~ Myles Munroe
- “If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.” ~ Tyler Perry
- “I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people’s homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.” ~ John Lasseter
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“Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.” ~ Tom Shadyac
- “The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author’s success – the true success so different from the ephemeral – is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.” ~ Ellen Glasgow
- “My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny’s Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that’s easier said than done but keep trying.” ~ Beyonce Knowles
- “The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it’s the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.” ~ John Waters
- “I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!” ~ Harmon Killebrew
- “Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage…true success follows every right step.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister’s life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which ‘smell sweet, and blossom in the dust’, the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.” ~ Stephen Covey
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“How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It’s treasures are priceless – but they can be stolen.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
- “True success is obeying God.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little “scary action,” as well. – Joe Vitale
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.” ~ Walter Inglis Anderson - “Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can’t learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.” ~ Joel Osteen
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“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “True success requires sacrifice.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever-alluring present, we do not forget the past.” ~ David Murray Cowie
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“True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.” ~ Priscilla Shirer
- “Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.” ~ Wayne Huizenga
- “True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.” ~ Dada Vaswani
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“I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.” ~ Kiana Tom
- “The journey of true success and lasting leadership begins with the inward journey to the soul.” ~ James Arthur Ra
- “True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths” ~ Sophia Amoruso
