70 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire You to Succeed

Posted by: Karen Booher on March 25th, 2021

Are you in need of a good dose of inspiration? Here is a compilation of motivational quotes from a recent article in Inc. which are sure to do just that!

1. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous
2. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
3. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Anonymous
4. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
5. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” – Anonymous
6. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Anonymous
8. “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” – Anonymous
9. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
10. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb
11. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” – Anonymous
12. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
13. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
14. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
15. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
17. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
18. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
19. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill
20. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” – Anonymous
21. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
22. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Anonymous
23. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein
24. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” – Albert Einstein
25. “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Anonymous
26. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Anonymous
27. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” – Anonymous
28. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – Lolly Daskal
29. “Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” – Anonymous
30. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” – Anonymous
31. “You can do anything, but not everything.” – Anonymous
32. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
33. “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
34. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
35. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
36. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
37. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
38. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
39. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
40. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
41. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
42. “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis
43. “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, they tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
44. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
45. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
46. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
47. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
48. “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
49. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
50. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
51. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
52. “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill
53. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” – Denis Waitley
54. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw
55. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
56. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
57. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie
58. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
59. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
60. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
61. “Success is… knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” – John C. Maxwell
62. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” – Dale Carnegie
63. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
64. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
65. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Spencer Johnson
66. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” – Washington Irving
67. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
68. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
69. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
70. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi

Source:

1. HR News Library, 2/22/2021. “100 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire You to Succeed”, by Inc.