101 Inspiring Quotes From the Most Successful People in History
101 Inspiring Quotes From the Most
Successful People in History
Whenever you're
struggling to get things done, turn to this list of quotes for the inspiration
and motivation you need to be the best you can be.
Inspiration can come from anywhere, but
one of my favorite sources is inspirational quotes. There are several that have
helped me stay on track throughout my business adventures, and I hope the
following sayings from some of the most successful people in history will have
the same effect on you:
1. "Success is most often achieved
by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." -- Coco
Chanel
2. "Things work out best for those
who make the best of how things work out."
- John Wooden
3. "Courage is grace under
pressure." -- Ernest Hemingway
4. "If you are not willing to risk
the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
- Jim Rohn
5. "Learn from yesterday, live for
today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein
6. "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
7. "Sometimes you can't see
yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
-- Ellen DeGeneres
8. "All our dreams can come true if
we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
9. "It does not matter how slowly
you go, so long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
10. "Success is walking from
failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
11. "Someone is sitting in the
shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -- Warren
Buffett
12. "Whenever you see a successful
person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach
them." -- Vaibhav Shah
13. "Don't cry because it's over,
smile because it happened." -- Dr. Seuss
14. "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
15. "You only live once, but if you
do it right, once is enough." -- Mae West
16. "Opportunities don't happen.
You create them." -- Chris Grosser
17. "Once you choose hope,
anything's possible." -- Christopher Reeve
18. "Try not to become a person of
success, but rather try to become a person of value." -- Albert
Einstein
19. "There is no easy walk to
freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the
shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our
desires." -- Nelson Mandela
20. "It is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
change." -- Charles Darwin
21. "The best and most beautiful
things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with
the heart." -- Helen Keller
22. "Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor
Roosevelt
23. "Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Mahatma Gandhi
24. "The best revenge is massive
success." -- Frank Sinatra
25. "The difference between winning
and losing is most often not quitting."
- Walt Disney
26. "I have not failed. I've just
found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison
27. "When you cease to dream you
cease to live." -- Malcolm Forbes
28. "A successful man is one who
can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
-- David Brinkley
29. "May you live every day of your
life." -- Jonathan Swift
30. "No one can make you feel
inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
31. "Failure is another
steppingstone to greatness." -- Oprah Winfrey
32. "The whole secret of a
successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do
it." -- Henry Ford
33. "If you're not stubborn, you'll
give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your
head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem
you're trying to solve." -- Jeff Bezos
34. "If you're going through hell,
keep going." -- Winston Churchill
35. "In order to be irreplaceable
one must always be different." -- Coco Chanel
36. "What seems to us as bitter
trials are often blessings in disguise." -- Oscar Wilde
37. "You miss 100 percent of the
shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretzky
38. "The distance between insanity
and genius is measured only by success."
- Bruce Feirstein
39. "The way I see it, if you want
the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
40. "To me, business isn't about
wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your
ideas and focusing on the essentials."--Richard Branson
41. "The longer I live, the more
beautiful life becomes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
42. "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
43. "You must expect great things
of yourself before you can do them."
- Michael Jordan
44. "If you can't explain it
simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
45. "You can't please everyone, and
you can't make everyone like you." -- Katie Couric
46. "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
47. "I believe every human has a
finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."-Neil
Armstrong
48. "Start where you are. Use what
you have. Do what you can." -- Arthur Ashe
49. "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
50. "People ask, 'What's the best
role you've ever played?' The next one."
- Kevin Kline
51. "The two most important days in
your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." -- Mark
Twain
52. "I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson
53. "It often requires more courage
to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
54. "Success is the sum of small
efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."
- Robert Collier
55. "As you grow older, you will
discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for
helping others." -- Audrey Hepburn
56. "If you want to achieve
excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing
less-than-excellent work." -- Thomas J. Watson
57. "If your actions inspire others
to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
-- John Quincy Adams
58. "All progress takes place
outside the comfort zone." -- Michael John Bobak
59. "The more you praise and
celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." -- Oprah
Winfrey
60. "You may only succeed if you
desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." -- Philippos
61. "A dream doesn't become reality
through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."-Colin
Powell
62. "Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone."
-Pablo Picasso
63. "The biggest risk is not taking
any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that
is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." -- Mark Zuckerberg
64. "We become what we think about
most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." -- Earl
Nightingale
65. "Do one thing every day that
scares you." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
66. "The only place where success
comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
67. "Don't be afraid to give up the
good to go for the great." -- John D. Rockefeller
68. "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
69. "Don't worry about failure; you
only have to be right once." -- Drew Houston
70. "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
71. "Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. "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
73. "Keep your face to the sunshine
and you can never see the shadow."
- Helen Keller
74. "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
75. "One of the greatest diseases
is to be nobody to anybody." -- Mother Teresa
76. "Identity is a prison you can
never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try
to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow." -- Jay-Z
77. "The successful warrior is the
average man, with laser-like focus." -- Bruce Lee
78. "Rarely have I seen a situation
where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." -- Jimmy
Spithill
79. "If you always do what
interests you, at least one person is pleased."
- Katharine Hepburn
80. "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
81. "I avoid looking forward or
backward, and try to keep looking upward."
- Charlotte Bronte
82. "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
83. "Life is short, and it is here
to be lived." -- Kate Winslet
84. "Everything you can imagine is
real." -- Pablo Picasso
85. "Change will not come if we
wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been
waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- Barack Obama
86. "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
87. "Successful people do what
unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you
were better." -- Jim Rohn
88. "It is never too late to be
what you might have been." -- George Eliot
89. "If you love what you do and
are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth
every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is
you want to design or build." -- Steve Wozniak
90. "In my experience, there is
only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or
stand against it." -- Jane Smiley
91. "In the midst of movement and
chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
- Deepak Chopra
92. "Success does not consist in
never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
-- George Bernard Shaw
93. "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
94. "As we look ahead into the next
century, leaders will be those who empower others." -- Bill Gates
95. "Our greatest fear should not
be of failure... but of succeeding at things in life that don't really
matter." -- Francis Chan
96. "Be yourself. Everyone else is
already taken." -- Oscar Wilde
97. "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
98. "But you have to do what you
dream of doing even while you're afraid."
- Arianna Huffington
99. "To be successful, you must
accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you
like." -- Mike Gafka
100. "Be patient with yourself.
Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment."
-- Stephen Covey
101. "Many of life's failures are
people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave
up." -- Thomas A. Edison
As Zig Ziglar said, motivation doesn't
last. But neither does showering. That's why both are recommended daily.
Whenever you're struggling to get things done, turn to these quotes for the
inspiration and motivation you need to be the best you can be.
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