Inspiring Quotes About Success: A Collection to Motivate You

Explore a powerful collection of inspirational quotes about success in life. These words from renowned thinkers and leaders will ignite your passion and drive. From Winston Churchill to Maya Angelou, discover how these quotes can inspire you to overcome challenges and achieve your dreams. Each quote serves as a reminder that success is a journey filled with perseverance, courage, and determination. Whether you're seeking motivation for your career, personal growth, or simply a boost in your day-to-day life, this compilation of quotes will resonate with you. Dive in and let these words inspire you to take action and pursue your goals with renewed vigor!

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

Success

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

Taking Risks

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

Aspirations

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

Education

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

- Drew Houston

Success

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in Self

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

Happiness

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

- Bill Bradley

Success

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

- Henry Ford

Belief

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Change

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

Empowerment

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

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

Belief

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

- Ingrid Bergman

Happiness

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflection

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

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Success

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

Perseverance

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

Learning from Mistakes

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

Success

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

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

Taking Risks

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

- Dale Carnegie

Success

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

Success

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Joseph Campbell

New Beginnings

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

Ambition

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

Success

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

Growth

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

Ambition

"Success is walking from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

Success

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

Belief in Self

"Action is the foundational key to success."

- Pablo Picasso

Success

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

- Napoleon Hill

Motivation

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

Vision

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Self-awareness

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

Belief in Self

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

Ambition

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

Happiness

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

Ambition

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

Courage

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

Motivation

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

Self-awareness

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

Personal Growth

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

Ambition

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

Success

"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

Courage

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

- Og Mandino

Resilience

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

- Zig Ziglar

Positivity

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

New Beginnings

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

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

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

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

- Wayne Dyer

Belief in Self

"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

Awareness

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

Independence

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Brian Tracy

Self-improvement

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

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"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

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

- Brian Tracy

Integrity

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

- Maya Angelou

Motivation

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

- Rob Siltanen

Change

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Warren Buffett

Contribution

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

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

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

- Marvin Gaye

Compassion

"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

Change

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

- Mae Jemison

Ambition

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

- Mae West

Contentment

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Compassion

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contribution

"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.

Courage

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Integrity

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

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

- Winston Churchill

Success

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

Compassion

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

- Winston Churchill

Change

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

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

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Resilience

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

Happiness

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

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

- Dale Carnegie

Success

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

- Will Rogers

Reflection

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"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

Success

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Success

"80% of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

Success

"You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

Personal Growth

"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

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

Motivation

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief in Self

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

Happiness

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

Love

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Brian Tracy

Growth

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

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

- Brian Tracy

Self-confidence

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

- Nelson Mandela

Motivation

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

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

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

- Zig Ziglar

Success

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

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

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

- Walt Disney

Motivation

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

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

Adaptation

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"We become what we think about."

- Earl Nightingale

Belief

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

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

- Robert H. Schuller

Achievement

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

- Brian Tracy

Success

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

- Helen Keller

Happiness

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

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

- William James

Mindfulness

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

Belief

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- William James

Change

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Aspirations

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Goals

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

Resilience

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Motivation

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Integrity

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resilience

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivation

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

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

- Albert Einstein

Imagination

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Paulo Coelho

Aspirations

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

- Brian Tracy

Optimism

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

- Brian Tracy

Vision

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

- Maya Angelou

Success

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Motivation

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

- George Lorimer

Determination

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

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Vision

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in 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

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

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

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

- Brian Tracy

Vision

"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

Courage

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Courage

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

- Confucius

Courage

"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

"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

Integrity

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hope

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

Self-awareness

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

Overcoming Obstacles

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

Happiness

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

Motivation

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

Contentment

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

Overcoming Obstacles

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

Contentment

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

Reflection

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

Learning

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

Ambition

"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

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

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"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

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

Perseverance

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

- General Colin Powell

Success

"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

"If you don’t have a goal in mind, you can’t expect to achieve it."

- Frank Sonnenberg

Goals

"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

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

- Farrah Gray

Ambition

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard

Perseverance

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes."

- Andrew Carnegie

Goals

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Independence

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awareness

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

Courage

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-awareness

"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

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

Goals

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Learning from Mistakes

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Mindfulness

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

Resilience

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

- Jessica Savitch

Goals

"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

Failure

"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

"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

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

Aspirations

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

Mindfulness

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

Positivity

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

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today."

- Will Rogers

Time Management

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

Change

"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another…"

- J.A. Tran

Change

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

Transformation

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

- Don Zimmer

Hard Work

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

- Hasidic Proverb

Self-confidence

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy."

- Dr. Henry Link

Facing Fears

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

Success

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

Time Management

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

"You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."

- James Dean

Personal Growth

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

Awareness

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them."

- Diane Setterfield

Ambition

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

Courage

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

Change

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

Reflection

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

Hope

"My belief in life is that you need only three things to get to the top- Talent, Ambition and Initiative."

- Ankit Patni

Ambition

"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

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

Perseverance

"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do."

- Brian Tracy

Gratitude

"Your focus should be on becoming a type of person you want to be, not a specific goal."

- James Clear

Personal Growth

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

- Lindsey Vonn

Change

"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…"

- Nitya Prakash

Self-awareness

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

Joy

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

- John Wooden

Positivity

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

- Nicole Kidman

Courage

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

- Michael Phelps

Goals

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

- Robert Frost

Philosophy

"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"

- Sanjo Jendayi

Adaptation

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

Independence

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

- Nicole Kidman

Change

"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Change

"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."

- Brian Tracy

Education

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

Contribution

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

Personal Growth

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

- Henry C. Link

Learning from Mistakes

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivation

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

Self-awareness

"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

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief in Self

"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

"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

"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

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

Belief in Self

"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

"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

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

Self-awareness

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

Self-confidence

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

Compassion

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Insight

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

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

- Henry Ford

Relationships

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope

"When it comes to your dreams, every risk is worth it."

- Joel Brown

Taking Risks

"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."

- Mohnish Pabrai

Adaptation

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

Generosity

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

Positivity

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

Self-awareness

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals."

- Roy Bennett

Gratitude

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

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

- Macklemore

Change

"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

Failure

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

- Stephen McCranie

Failure

"Life is not about a goal to be achieved, but a goal to be reached."

- Pawan Pandit

Goals

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

Failure

"Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life."

- John Landis Mason

Time Management

"Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change."

- Barbara Baron

Motivation

"Goals must stretch and test your cognitive skills for results achievement."

- Invajy

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

"Every master was once a disaster."

- David T.S Wood

Personal Growth

"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."

- Omid Kordgstani

Choice

"On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire."

- Larry D. Turner

Ambition

"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

"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

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

Compassion

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

- Henry David Thoreau

Time Management

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau

Love

"The real risk is doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

Courage

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

Self-confidence

"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

"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

- Chanakya

Wisdom

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

Aspirations

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

Motivation

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

Belief

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

Belief in Self

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

Empowerment

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

Growth

"When you feel like quitting, remember why you started."

Motivation

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

Failure

"Elissa Johnson is an editorial associate intern at Prevention . She is a communication student at Penn State University. When not writing about health and wellness trends for Prevention.com, you can find her searching for the best bubble tea, exploring NYC, or listening to SZA."

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