100+ Inspirational Quotes About Success to Motivate Your Journey

### Unlock the Power of Success Through Words Success is a journey filled with challenges, perseverance, and triumphs. To inspire and guide you along this path, we've curated a remarkable collection of over 100 inspirational quotes about success from some of the greatest minds and achievers in history. ### Wisdom from Legends and Leaders From Winston Churchill's courage to continue despite failure, to Oprah Winfrey's insights on self-belief, these quotes offer timeless wisdom. Whether you're seeking motivation to start a new venture, overcome obstacles, or maintain your drive, these words will fuel your ambition. ### Embrace the Journey Success is not just about the destination but the lessons learned along the way. This collection emphasizes persistence, hard work, self-discipline, and the importance of mindset. Dive into these quotes to find encouragement, perspective, and the inspiration to keep moving forward. Let these powerful words be your daily reminder that success is within your reach, and every step you take brings you closer to your dreams.

Wisdom from the Masters

"I never lose. I either win or learn."

- Nelson Mandela

Persistence

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

Resilience

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

- Jim Rohn

Success

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

Failure

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

Resilience

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Failure

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Taking Risks

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

Success

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

Failure

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

Achievement

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

Success

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Ambition

"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

Failure

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."

- Oprah Winfrey

Perseverance

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

Resilience

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"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

Courage

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

Resilience

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

Success

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

Service

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t; it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

Perseverance

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

- Abraham Lincoln

Determination

"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

Success

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

Resilience

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

Empowerment

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

Perseverance

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

Hard Work

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

Motivation

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."

- Coach John Wooden

Success

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

Independence

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

Success

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Success

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

Contentment

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

Failure

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

Resilience

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

Success

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

- Confucius

Hard Work

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

Learning from Mistakes

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

Failure

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Taking Risks

"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

"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

Empowerment

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

Hard Work

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

Hard Work

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

Change

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

Motivation

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

Motivation

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

Determination

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

Persistence

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

Belief in Self

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

Success

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

Determination

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

Hard Work

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

Facing Fears

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

Motivation

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

Balance

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

Motivation

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

Courage

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Courage

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success."

- James Cameron

Goals

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph."

- Zig Ziglar

Success

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

Success

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it."

- Oprah Winfrey

Success

"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration."

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Success

"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything."

- Warren Buffett

Success

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

Resilience

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Focus

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

Hard Work

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Taking Risks

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

Growth

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

Failure

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

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

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

- Bill Gates

Success

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

Success

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

- Zig Ziglar

Integrity

"Success is dependent on effort."

- Sophocles

Hard Work

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

Persistence

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

- Jim Lovell

Taking Risks

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

Persistence

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

Belief in Self

"They succeed, because they think they can."

- Virgil

Belief in Self

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

- Christopher Morley

Independence

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

Failure

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Failure

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

- Thomas J. Watson

Belief in Self

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

Success

"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Adversity

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

Motivation

"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."

- Swami Vivekananda

Focus

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

Education

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

Success

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

Courage

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

Success

"Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

Perseverance

"Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

- Napoleon Hill

Persistence

"Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

Success

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

Perseverance

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

Success

"The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance."

- Mia Hamm

Success

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Goals

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down."

- Chantal Sutherland

Belief in Self

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right."

- Henry Ford

Belief in Self

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."

- Jim Rohn

Self-improvement

"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time."

- John C. Maxwell

Persistence

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently."

- Tony Robbins

Self-improvement

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

Determination

"Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period."

- Lou Holtz

Self-improvement

"Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable."

- Dan Kennedy

Self-improvement

"Success doesn’t just happen. It’s planned for, and it requires discipline."

- Farshad Asl

Self-improvement

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."

- Abraham Lincoln

Self-improvement

"With self-discipline almost anything is possible."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Self-improvement

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

"Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure."

- Aisha Tyler

Perseverance

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

- Diana Scharf Hunt

Goals

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

"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

Motivation

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

Ambition

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

Success

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Motivation

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

Aspirations

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

- Paulo Coelho

Aspirations

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Motivation

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

Hard Work

"To achieve big things, you have to have big dreams."

- Conrad Hilton

Ambition

"What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed."

- Dave Thomas

Success

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally.  It comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

Success

"You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."

- Michael Dell

Success

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

Taking Risks

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

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

Perseverance

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.."

- Estee Lauder

Hard Work

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

- Kobe Bryant

Determination

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

Persistence

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

"Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."

- Shaquille O’Neal

Self-improvement

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

Belief in Self

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

Success

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

Determination

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

Optimism

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resilience

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

Hard Work

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

Mindfulness

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

Hard Work

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

Overcoming Obstacles

"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"

- Brian Tracy

Success

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

Independence

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

"Dream big. Start small. Act now."

- Robin Sharma

Aspirations

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

Perseverance

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

Responsibility

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Success

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

Change

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

Leadership

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

Leadership

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

Taking Risks

"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."

- J. Paul Getty

Success

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Bravery

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

- Rodolfo Costa

Optimism

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

- Miguel de Cervantes

Taking Risks

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better."

- Seth Godin

Originality

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Vision

"When you change what you believe is possible, you change what becomes possible."

- Alex Banayan

Belief

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

Self-awareness

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

Contentment

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

Ambition

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

Happiness

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

Achievement

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

Learning from Mistakes

"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble."

- Shah Rukh Khan

Failure

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

Success

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

Success

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

Success

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

- Colin R. Davis

Success

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

Happiness

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

Success

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour."

- Aristotle

Courage

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

Success

"Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise."

- Frank Ocean

Hard Work

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Relationships

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Time Management

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

Education

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

- Mike Ditka

Self-awareness

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

Learning

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

Learning

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

Productivity

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

Hard Work

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much."

- Joan Collins

Learning from Mistakes

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

Positivity

"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us."

- Virginia Satir

Empowerment

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

- Oscar Wilde

Adversity

"Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you."

- Mike Rowe

Drive

"Either the day runs you or you run the day."

- Mel Robbins

Success

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Change

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

- Saint Augustine

Success

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

Happiness

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

Balance

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

Goals

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

Belief in Self

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

Balance

"Think of many things; do one."

- Portuguese proverb

Focus

"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."

- Sun Tzu

Strength

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."

- Lao Tzu

Drive

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Success

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

Perseverance

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin

Creativity

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

Courage

"One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go."

- Sheila Murray Bethel

Courage

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflection

"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

Success

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

Aspirations

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."

- David Allen

Time Management

"The road to success, for 99% of people, isn’t a jump. It’s a steady incline from one successful project to the next."

- Lee Morris

Success

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above every else’s success."

- James Cameron

Goals

"Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

Failure

"You can’t win unless you learn how to lose."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Learning from Mistakes

"Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

- Robert Kiyosaki

Motivation

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

Growth

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

Self-confidence

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-awareness

"I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."

- Tom Landry

Learning from Mistakes

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

Leadership

"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t."

- Jack Dempsey

Resilience

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

- Plato

Self-improvement

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

Self-improvement

"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability."

- Roy L. Smith

Self-improvement

"The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret."

- Sarah Bombell

Self-improvement

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."

- James Allen

Self-improvement

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

- Mike Ditka

Success

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

Focus

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

Success

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

Time Management

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Molière

Courage

"The only place where your dreams become impossible is in your own thinking."

- Robert H. Schuller

Belief in Self

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."

- Pele

Happiness

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

Perseverance

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

Growth

"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

Optimism

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

Happiness

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

Belief

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

Contribution

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

Change

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

Perseverance

"Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

Aspirations

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

New Beginnings

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

Goals

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Growth

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

Success

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Strength

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

Empowerment

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

Motivation

"Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others."

- Jack Welch

Leadership

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

Belief

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

Courage

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do."

- Albert E.N. Gray

Self-improvement

"The cost of discipline is always less than the price of regret."

- Nido Qubein

Self-improvement

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

- Joe Paterno

Determination

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

Courage

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

Motivation

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

"Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

Motivation

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

Failure

"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."

- Ronald Reagan

Responsibility

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

- Maria Montessori

Success

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."

- Alistair Cook

Determination

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

- Andrew Carnegie

Happiness

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

- Godfrey Winn

Family

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

Success

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be."

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

- Marilyn Monroe

Success

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

- Margaret Thatcher

Productivity

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

- George Patton

Leadership

"Proper planning prevents poor performance."

- James Baker

Productivity

"An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing."

- Dale Carnegie

Efficiency

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time."

- Leonard Bernstein

Ambition

"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."

- Ernie Banks

Teamwork

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

- Andre Agassi

Awareness

"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are."

- Max De Pree

Personal Growth

"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."

- Mike Singletary

Joy

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

Self-confidence

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

Growth

"Your mindset matters. It affects everything—from the business and investment decisions you make to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being."

- Peter Diamandis

Mindfulness

"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do."

- Aristotle

Choice

"bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

Perseverance

"No one is free who is not master of themselves."

- Epictetus

Self-improvement

"Don’t focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best."

- Casey Ho

Focus

"The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

Achievement

"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."

- Miguel de Cervantes

Success

"Strategic planning is worthless—unless there is first a strategic vision."

- John Naisbitt

Vision

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Time Management

"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."

- Thomas Edison

Success

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

Self-awareness

"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it."

- Seneca

Healing

"The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."

- Ronald Reagan

Adaptation

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

Imagination

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

- Alan Lakein

Responsibility

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Motivation

"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."

- Sun Tzu

Wisdom

"You must plan to be spontaneous."

- David Hockney

Adaptation

"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

Success

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

Mindfulness

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

Change

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Resilience

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

Focus

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

Integrity

"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."

Hard Work

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

Hard Work

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

Courage

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."

Determination

"There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

Perseverance

"Success is not the absence of failure, it’s persistence through failure."

Resilience

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

Success

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

Perseverance

"Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

Positivity

"If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough."

Aspirations

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

Resilience

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

Success

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

Belief

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

Awareness

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

Resilience

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

Learning from Mistakes

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

Resilience

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

Success

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

Empowerment

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

Focus

"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."

Hard Work

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Contribution

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

Belief

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

Hard Work

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Leadership

"It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

Leadership

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Leadership

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

Belief in Self

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."

Success

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

Hard Work

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

Knowledge

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

Empowerment

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

Hard Work

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

Success

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

Failure

"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it."

Hard Work

"Success is not just about making money. It’s about making a difference."

Success

"Success does not lie in results but in efforts, being the best is not so important, doing the best is all that matters."

Efficiency