Motivation is a key factor for success. For your job, exams or other life goals you need to get loaded with energy. Many great minds and ...
Motivation is a key factor for success. For your job, exams or other life goals you need to get loaded with energy. Many great minds and writers spoke about it.These best motivational quotes of all time will give you the boost you've been waiting for. The list is long so, bookmark it so you can come back and read the rest later.
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Herman Cain
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.”
– Herbert B. Swope
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller
“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
– Roy L. Smith
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
– Orison Swett Marden
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
– Albert Einstein
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm
”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
– Brian Tracy
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
– Abraham Maslow
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
– Charles F. Kettering
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
– Bruce Feirstein
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
– George Sheehan
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
– Swami Vivekananda
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“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 wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
– Clay P. Bedford
“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?”
– Brian Tracy
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
– Unknown
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
– Mark Caine
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama
“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
– Tony Robbins
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
– David M. Burns
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
– Vince Lombardi
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
– Mark Victor Hansen
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar
“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.”
– Kim Garst
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
– Anthony Robbins
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
– Peter Drucker
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
– Jim Rohn
“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.”
– Denis Waitley
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
– David Bly
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
– Wilfred Peterson
“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
– Vaibhav Shah
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
– Andy Rooney
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain
“Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts.”
– Unknown
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
– Milton Erickson
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
– Albert Einstein
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
– Jim Rohn
“The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”
– Unknown
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”
– Earl Nightingale
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
– Francis Chan
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." James Cameron
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." John Wooden
"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." Lisa M. Amos
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." Swami Vivekananda
"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." Tony Hsieh
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney
"If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do." Anonymous
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
"Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." Vaibhav Shah
"Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me." Denzel Washington
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." Chris Grosser
"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." Albert Einstein
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The best revenge is massive success." Frank Sinatra
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." Henry Ford
"If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." Oscar Wilde
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Bruce Feirstein
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." John D. Rockefeller
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Albert Einstein
"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
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Ashe
"People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one." Kevin Kline
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson
"The starting point of all achievement is desire." Napoleon Hill
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." Robert Collier
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." Thomas J. Watson
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." Michael John Bobak
"You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." Philippos
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." Mark Twain
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." Earl Nightingale
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." Bill Cosby
"Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending." Carl Bard
"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
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." Mark Caine
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." Bruce Lee
"Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." Jimmy Spithill
"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down." Charles F. Kettering
"If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." Gurbaksh Chahal
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs
"If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" T. Harv Eker
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." Jim Rohn
"The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." Napoleon Hill
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." Jane Smiley
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." George Bernard Shaw
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure ... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." Francis Chan
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn
"Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan." Larry Winget
"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gafka
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." Baltasar
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret Thatcher
"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." Stephen Covey
"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
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." Robert Hughes
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" Robert Schuller
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell
"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
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen." Dax Shepard
"My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'" George Carlin
