100 Inspirational Quotes for Success: Ignite Your Motivation Today

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"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. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them."

- Jim Rohn

"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 is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

- Earl Nightingale

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Tim Notke

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

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

- James Cameron

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

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

- Winston Churchill

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

- Stephen McCranie

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

- Thomas Edison

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- David Ogilvy

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"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 is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Mel Robbins

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

- Alex Banayan

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Aristotle Onassis

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Albert Einstein

"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 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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Louis Pasteur

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Walter Elliot

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Dale Carnegie

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Chinese proverb

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Frank Ocean

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one"

- Dolly Parton

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

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

- Stephen King

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"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

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

- Bill Gates

"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

"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

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Henry Ford

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Henry Ford

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Stephen Hawking

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

"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

"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."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- David Frost

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"They succeed, because they think they can."

- Virgil

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

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

- Christopher Morley

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- George Edward Woodberry

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Maya Angelou

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird — it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C. S. Lewis

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

- Thomas J. Watson

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Maya Angelou

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Arnold H. Glasow

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

- Babe Ruth

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Jim Rohn

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

- Michael Jordan

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Albert Einstein

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Newt Gingrich

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- William Feather

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

- Napoleon Hill

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

"I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest."

- Venus Williams

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

- Confucius

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

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

- Thomas Edison

"You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential."

- Steve Garvey

"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands—your own."

- Mark Victor Hansen

"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

- Zig Ziglar

"Goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."

- Benjamin E. Mays

"The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals."

- Seth Godin

"The great danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

- Michelangelo

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

- Henry Ford

"A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot."

- Joe Vitale

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

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

- Henry Ford

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

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

- Herman Melville

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Shah Rukh Khan

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games."

- Babe Ruth

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."

- Rupert Murdoch

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself]."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

- Frank Herbert

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

- Ellen Glasgow

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles. Change your leaves, keep your roots intact."

- Victor Hugo

"You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

- Timothy Leary

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Mike Rowe

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

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

- William James

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Dr. Steve Maraboli

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

- Colin R. Davis

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"Learn as if you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Brian Tracy

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"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

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

- Sue Hadfield

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

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

- Michael Jordan

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

- Henry C. Link

"I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing."

- Martha Stewart

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"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

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Oscar Wilde

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- John Wooden

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

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

- Ingrid Bergman

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

- James Russell Lowell

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

- Confucius

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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

- Mark Twain

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Billie Jean King

"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."

- Macklemore

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

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

- John Ruskin

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Sun Tzu

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

- Marvin Gaye

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

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

- Dalai Lama

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ronald Reagan

"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 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

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Godfrey Winn

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Andrew Carnegie

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"One day or day one. You decide."

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

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

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

"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."