100+ Inspirational Quotes About Success to Motivate Your Journey

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Winston Churchill

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Stephen McCranie

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"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

"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

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

- Conrad Hilton

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Ayn Rand

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- John Wooden

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

"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

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

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

- David Ogilvy

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Drake

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

- Bill Gates

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- James Cameron

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Confucius

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

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

- Samuel Beckett

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Success is dependent on effort."

- Sophocles

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

- Louis Pasteur

"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

"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

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

- David Frost

"They succeed, because they think they can."

- Virgil

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- George Edward Woodberry

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Thomas J. Watson

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

- Arnold H. Glasow

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Walt Disney

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Conrad Hilton

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Marie Forleo

"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

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

- Howard Schultz

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Estee Lauder

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

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Shaquille O’Neal

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Chantal Sutherland

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Buddha

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Tony Robbins

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- Dan Kennedy

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

- Farshad Asl

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"With self-discipline almost anything is possible."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Aisha Tyler

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

- Diana Scharf Hunt

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

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

- Farrah Gray

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

- William Feather

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Albert Einstein

"Dream big. Start small. Act now."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Stanley McChrystal

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

- T.S. Eliot

"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

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

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

- William James

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Shah Rukh Khan

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mike Ditka

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

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Alex Banayan

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Vernon Howard

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

- Aristotle Onassis

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Don Zimmer

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Aristotle

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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.

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Socrates

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Stephen King

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Joan Collins

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Reba McEntire

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Sun Tzu

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- Roger Staubach

"Think of many things; do one."

- Portuguese proverb

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- John Ruskin

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Joe Paterno

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

- Virginia Satir

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Mike Rowe

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

- Tom Landry

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

- William James

"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

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Jack Dempsey

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

- Mel Robbins

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- William James

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Ralph Nader

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

- Michael Phelps

"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

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Pele

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

- Walter Elliot

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- James Allen

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Mike Ditka

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Jack Welch

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

- FDR

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Molière

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

- Albert E.N. Gray

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Dan Reeves

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

- Drew Houston

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

- James Cameron

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

- Plato

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

- Roy L. Smith

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

- Sarah Bombell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Helen Keller

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Godfrey Winn

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

- Mike Singletary

"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 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

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

- Ernie Banks

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Casey Ho

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

- Andre Agassi

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

- Alistair Cook

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"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

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

- Max De Pree

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

- Epictetus

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Confucius

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

- Aristotle

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

- George Patton

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- John Naisbitt

"Proper planning prevents poor performance."

- James Baker

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Seneca

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

- Alan Lakein

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Sun Tzu

"You must plan to be spontaneous."

- David Hockney

"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

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

- Amit Ray

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

- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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