"Success is No Accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."
- Pele
Success
"Success is Not Final, Failure is Not Fatal: it is the Courage to Continue that Counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"Don’t Wait for Opportunity, Create it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"Success is Walking from Failure to Failure."
- Winston Churchill
Failure
"Action is the Foundational Key to Success."
- Pablo Picasso
Success
"Success isn’t Always about Greatness. It’s about Consistency."
- Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
Success
"Success is Where Preparation & Opportunity Meet."
- Bobby Unser
Success
"80% of Success is Showing Up."
- Woody Allen
Success
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
Hard Work
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Success
"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Taking Risks
"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
- Stephen McCranie
Failure
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
- Bobby Unser
Success
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."
- Michelangelo
Hard Work
"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
- Chanakya
Success
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou
Personal Growth
"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
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
- Margaret Thatcher
Hard Work
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing
Hard Work
"The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress you need discipline."
- Dan Waldschmidt
Success
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
- Stephen King
Hard Work
"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."
- Malcolm Gladwell
Hard Work
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
Courage
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie
Perseverance
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
- Coco Chanel
Change
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Courage
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
- Albert Einstein
Goals
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
- William James
Mindfulness
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure."
- Confucius
Success
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
- Thomas A. Edison
Perseverance
"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
- Montesquieu
Success
"I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process."
- Oprah Winfrey
Success
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
- Roy T. Bennett
Success
"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
- Bette Midler
Success
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
- Abraham Lincoln
Success
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
- Stephen Hawking
Success
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
- Maya Angelou
Change
"Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us."
- Susan L. Taylor
Belief in Self
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
- Nietzsche
Ambition
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
- Thomas Paine
Courage
"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."
- Dr. Mae Jemison
Ambition
"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."
- Jimmy Carter
Belief in Self
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up."
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Perseverance
"The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice."
- Huda Kattan
Ambition
"Match your talent with opportunities that you are passionate about."
- Germany Kent
Ambition
"When opportunities knock on your door, don't wait too long to decide because when you take too much time, the decision will be made for you — typically, this will not be to your benefit."
- Jen Alvares
Ambition
"No career counselor or internship will be able to help you with your career if you don't have an aim, purpose, and passion for what you want to do in life."
- Germany Kent
Ambition
"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."
- Lady Gaga
Empowerment
"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."
- Brian Tracy
Leadership
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
Perseverance
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
- Kurt Cobain
Self-awareness
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
- Confucius
Success
"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Taking Risks
"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."
- Chris Grosser
Optimism
"Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it."
- Katharine Whitehorn
Ambition
"Feeling confident or pretending that you feel confident is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Self-confidence
"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
Motivation
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle
Ambition
"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Change
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
Education
"You are never too small to make a difference."
- Greta Thunberg
Empowerment
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Teamwork
"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean
Adaptation
"You’ll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer."
- Harvey MacKay
Success
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"As I look back on my life, I realise that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."
- Dr. Steve Maraboli
Change
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
- Walter Elliot
Perseverance
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
Success
"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Perseverance
"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 hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."
- Roy T. Bennett
Perseverance
"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."
- Dr. Roopleen
Ambition
"No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."
- Pittacus Lore
Hope
"Change course, but don’t give up."
- Roy T. Bennett
Perseverance
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
- Walt Disney
Growth
"Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
- Lance Armstrong
Perseverance
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
Resilience
"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."
- Marilyn Monroe
Failure
"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."
- Roy T. Bennett
Failure
"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
Failure
"The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."
- Roy T. Bennett
Courage
"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."
- Arianna Huffington
Failure
"Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail."
- Alicia Keys
Courage
"Never be afraid of failure. And don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best."
- Suki Waterhouse
Courage
"Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet."
- Robert H. Schuller
Failure
"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it."
- Lou Holtz
Failure
"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."
- Sophocles
Failure
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
- Elbert Hubbard
Perseverance
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"
- Audrey Hepburn
Belief in Self
"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."
- Vince Lombardi
Perseverance
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
- Karim Seddiki
Courage
"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- General Colin Powell
Success
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
- George Washington Carver
Failure
"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."
- Lou Holtz
Hard Work
"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator."
- Yogi Berra
Failure
"Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change."
- Barbara Baron
Motivation
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
Mindfulness
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Empowerment
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Josh Billings
Adversity
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
- Muhammad Ali
Courage
"Impossible is just an opinion."
- Paulo Coelho
Belief in Self
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"Sometimes, you have to give up. Sometimes, knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop."
- Phil Knight
Perseverance
"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
- Alan Alda
Self-awareness
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-awareness
"You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment."
- Israelmore Ayivor
Motivation
"Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it again. Because again is practice, and practice is improvement, and improvement only leads to perfection."
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Perseverance
"There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning."
- Roy T. Bennett
Success
"Every master was once a disaster."
- David T.S Wood
Personal Growth
"When it comes to your dreams, every risk is worth it."
- Joel Brown
Taking Risks
"Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life."
- John Landis Mason
Time Management
"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals."
- Roy Bennett
Gratitude
"If you don’t have a goal in mind, you can’t expect to achieve it."
- Frank Sonnenberg
Goals
"Focus on yourself and your goals and don’t get distracted by dishonesty and disloyalty from people, who only waste your time and energy!"
- Lily Amis
Focus
"Your focus should be on becoming a type of person you want to be, not a specific goal."
- James Clear
Personal Growth
"Life is not about a goal to be achieved, but a goal to be reached."
- Pawan Pandit
Goals
"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."
- Oprah Winfrey
Independence
"Goals must stretch and test your cognitive skills for results achievement."
- Invajy
Goals
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie
Goals
"People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them."
- Diane Setterfield
Ambition
"My belief in life is that you need only three things to get to the top- Talent, Ambition and Initiative."
- Ankit Patni
Ambition
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
- Confucius
Goals
"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
- LES BROWN
Goals
"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."
- Jessica Savitch
Goals
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awareness
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
- Farrah Gray
Ambition
"It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith."
- Priti Chaubey
Failure
"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."
- Omid Kordgstani
Choice
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."
- Serena Williams
Courage
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King
Achievement
"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."
- Madam C.J. Walker
Ambition
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."
- Rosa Parks
Change
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
- Dr. Seuss
Independence
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"
- Audrey Hepburn
Ambition
"Don’t Count the Days, Make the Days Count."
- Muhammad Ali
Time Management
"He Who is Not Courageous Enough to Take Risks Will Accomplish Nothing in Life."
- Muhammad Ali
Taking Risks
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"Either Run the Day or the Day Runs You."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Achievement
"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
Courage
"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
Personal Growth
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
Failure
"In the End We Only Regret the Chances We Didn’t Take."
- Lewis Carroll
Aspirations
"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
"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
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
- Jim Rohn
Determination
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen R. Covey
Belief in Self
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill
Optimism
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
- Lucille Ball
Self-care
"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."
- Arianna Huffington
Failure
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
- Alice Walker
Empowerment
"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."
- Maggie Kuhn
Courage
"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."
- Oprah Winfrey
Self-awareness
"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."
- Naomi Osaka
Determination
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
Failure
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Empowerment
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
Aspirations
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
- Geena Davis
Taking Risks
"Don’t count the days, make the days count."
- Muhammad Ali
Time Management
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela
Courage
"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."
- Viola Davis
Aspirations
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"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
Inspiration
"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."
- Beyoncé
Belief in Self
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"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 you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"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
Resilience
"The Real Risk is Doing Nothing."
- Denis Waitley
Courage
"Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart."
- Drake
Balance
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- E.E. Cummings
Courage
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill
Positivity
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle
Hope
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
- Anaïs Nin
Courage
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
- Maya Angelou
Compassion
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."
- Laverne Cox
Love
"Give light and people will find the way."
- Ella Baker
Empowerment
"On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire."
- Larry D. Turner
Ambition
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
- Bruce Springsteen
Success
"No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach."
- Donald Trump
Ambition
"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."
- Michelle Obama
Self-awareness
"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."
- Mary Lou Retton
Positivity
"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."
- Gabrielle Union
Self-care
"Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily."
- Auliq Ice
Contentment
"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."
- Roxane Gay
Leadership
"A rare skill can help you pay more bills than usual."
- David Angway
Ambition
"Every day you spend at work is a foundation for your future."
- Abhishek Ratna
Ambition
"There is no better compass than compassion."
- Amanda Gorman
Compassion
"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."
- Jane Fonda
Self-awareness
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Resilience
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
Creativity
"Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."
- Hal Lancaster
Change
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"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
Empowerment
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
- Toni Morrison
Philosophy
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
- Oscar Wilde
Awareness
"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."
- Lady Gaga
Self-esteem
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."
- Simone Biles
Happiness
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffett
Wisdom
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
Motivation
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…"
- Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude
"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
- Bonnie Prudden
New Beginnings
"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
"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
- Zig Ziglar
New Beginnings
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
Success
"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."
- Ayn Rand
Ambition
"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."
- Chanakya
Wisdom
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"The road to success is always under construction."
- Lily Tomlin
Success
"Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top."
- Chanakya
Wisdom
"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."
- Robert H. Schuller
Achievement
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Ambition
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."
- Florence Nightingale
Success
"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."
- Gail Devers
Achievement
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
- Chinese Proverb
Education
"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."
Integrity
"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."
Focus
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."
Awareness
"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."
Belief
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Hard Work
"Perseverance goes a long way."
Perseverance
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
Learning from Mistakes
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."
Success
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."
Resilience
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
Perseverance
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."
Hard Work
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."
Resilience
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
Resilience
"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."
Empowerment
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
Resilience
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
Success
"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."
Hard Work
"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."
Courage
"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."
Hard Work
"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
"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
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
Knowledge
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Hard Work
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Focus
"Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."
Positivity
"If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough."
Aspirations
"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."
Empowerment
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
Success
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
Future
"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."
Education
"Great Things Never Come From Comfort Zones."
Growth
"When You Feel Like Quitting, Remember Why You Started."
Motivation