100 Inspirational Success Quotes to Motivate Your Journey

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

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"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

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Estée Lauder

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"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

"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

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

- Bill Gates

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Edmond Mbiaka

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"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 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

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

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffet

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

"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

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

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

- Epicurus

"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

"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

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Maya Angelou

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

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

- Winston Churchill

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"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

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Muhammad Ali

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"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

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

- David Brinkley

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

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

- Winston Churchill

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

- Gabby Douglas

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success."

- Thomas J. Watson

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

- Walt Disney

"You can do anything you set your mind to."

- Eminem

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Chantal Sutherland

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive."

- Leah LaBelle

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

- Tim Notke

"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Winston Churchill

"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 one who’ll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"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

"If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real."

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Shiv Khera

"Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer."

- Sophia Amoruso

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Steve Jobs

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Frederick Douglass

"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coelho

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you, ‘Wrong way. Turn around.’"

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Herman Melville

"If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

- Grace Hopper

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- John Wooden

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Colin Powell

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Aristotle Onassis

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Colin R. Davis

"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

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Ingrid Bergman

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Truman Capote

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"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

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

- Duke Ellington

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Michele Ruiz

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it."

- Elon Musk

"No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become ‘Successful.’"

- Jaymin Shah

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas Edison

"Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Marissa Mayer

"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

"It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"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

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be."

- Benjamin Hardy

"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

"If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive."

- Kenneth Goldsmith

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Stephen King

"Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted."

- Christine Caine

"Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ’Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is."

- Anne Frank

"Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there."

- Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Chris Grosser

"Trust yourself that you can do it and get it."

- Baz Luhrmann

"You never know what you can do until you try."

- William Cobbett

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

- Albert Einstein

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

"All we can do is the best we can do."

- David Axelrod

"When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him."

- K’wan

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

"Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit."

- Kamari, a.k.a. Lyrikal

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

- Isabelle Lafleche

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

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Leah Busque

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- William James

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

- George Lorimer

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Stanley McChrystal

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"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

"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

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Vince Lombardi

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- William James

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so … get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Ross Simmonds

"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

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Drew Houston

"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

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Walt Disney

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- William James

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete."

- Jack Welch

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

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

- Farrah Gray

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

"Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Drake

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

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

- Helen Keller

"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."

- Roy T. Bennett

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed."

- G K Chesterton

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

- Nelson Mandela

"We become what we think about"

- Earl Nightingale

"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

"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

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

- 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.

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- E.E. Cummings

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Brian Tracy

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Helen Keller

"Begin anywhere."

- John Cage

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

- Albert Einstein

"Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE."

- Joss Whedon

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- William James

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

- Dalai Lama

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Aristotle

"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

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Socrates

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

- Catherine Pulsifier

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Michael Altshuler

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can."

- Frida Kahlo

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dalai Lama

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

- George R.R. Martin

"Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."

- Jim Henson

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Mae West

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- Macklemore

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"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

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Brian Tracy

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Brian Tracy

"Only the paranoid survive."

- Andy Grove

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"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

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

- Mohnish Pabrai

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

- Maya Angelou

"You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"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

"At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end."

- Christine Mason Miller

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"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

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Florence Nightingale

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Stephen McCranie

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

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

"Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise."

"Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits."

"Don’t quit yet. The worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful."

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come."

- Unknown

"You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours."

- Unknown

"Take the risk or lose the chance."

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

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

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

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

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

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

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

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

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

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

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

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

"Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days give you experience."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"All Motivation Mondays need are a little more coffee and a lot more mascara."