Motivational & Inspirational Success Quotes

Motivational & Inspirational Success Quotes

1. 1. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
      – Richard Branson
   2. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele
   3. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

1. 1. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
   2. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” —Walt Whitman
   3. “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” —Amelia Barr
   4. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” —Bertrand Russell

1. 1. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” —Malala Yousafzai
   2. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” —Earl Nightingale
   3. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” —Thomas Jefferson
   4. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” —E. E. Cummings
   5. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” —John Muir
   6. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
   7. “I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” – Gustave Flaubert

1. 1. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
      – Robert Kiyosaki
   2. “I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.” —Zane Grey
   3. “A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” —Joyce Meyer
   4. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” —Wilma Rudolph
   5. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” —Jim Rohn

1. 1. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi
   2. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” —Rabindranath Tagore
   3. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” —Joseph Campbell
   4. “Each day provides its own gifts.” —Marcus Aurelius
   5. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne

24. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
    – Dalai Lama
25. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

26. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
27. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert B. Swope

28. 28. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
    29. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
        – Winston Churchill
    30. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
        – Olin Miller

31. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” – Roy L. Smith
32. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

33. 33. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
    34. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

35. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
    – Florence Nightingale
36. “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
    – Vincent Van Gogh

37. 37. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker
    38. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
    39. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
        – Stephen King

40. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
    – Abraham Lincoln
41. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
42. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
43. “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” – Erich Fromm

44. ”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
45. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
    – Abraham Maslow

46. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
47. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
    – Bruce Feirstein

48. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan
49. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison
50. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James

51. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
52. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.” – Swami Vivekananda

53. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
54. “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

55. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
56. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
    – Clay P. Bedford

57. “After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?” – Brian Tracy
58. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
59. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
    – Oprah Winfrey

60. “Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.” – Unknown
61. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
62. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
    – Wayne Dyer
63. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

64. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
    – Theodore Roosevelt
65. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “ – Leo F. Buscaglia

66. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Harry F. Banks
67. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
68. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
69. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

71. “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – David M. Burns

73. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
    – Arthur Ashe
74. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
    – Conrad Hilton

75. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
76. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

77. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
78. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    – Samuel Beckett
79. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
    – Oscar Wilde

80. “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen
81. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
    – Zig Ziglar
82. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
83. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

84. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” – Anthony Robbins
85. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker

86. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    – Mahatma Gandhi
87. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

88. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
89. “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
90. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
    – Ludwig Wittgenstein
91. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
92. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
93. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

94. “Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.” – Denis Waitley
95. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly

98. 98. “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” – Wilfred Peterson
    99. “Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
    100. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
    101. “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
    102. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
    103. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

98. 98. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
    99. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
    100. “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” – Milton Erickson
    101. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
    102. “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein
    103. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.” – Abraham Lincoln

98. 98. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
    99. “The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.” – Unknown
    100. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
    101. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
         – Martin Luther King, Jr.

98. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
99. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
100. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
     – Karen Lamb
101. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
     – Herman Cain