200+ Inspirational Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You for Success (2024)

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

―Thomas A. Edison

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

― Winston S. Churchill

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

―Herbert Bayard Swope

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

―Albert Einstein

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
―Bette Midler

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
―W. P. Kinsella

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
―Salvador Dali

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
―Truman Capote

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
―Winston S. Churchill

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
―Albert Einstein

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
―Roger Von Oech

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
―Abraham Lincoln

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
―Theodore Roosevelt

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
―Leonardo da Vinci

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
―Bob Dylan

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
―Thomas A. Edison

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
―Marilyn Monroe

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
―Robert F. Kennedy

“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.”
―Orson Scott Card

“We are all failures – at least the best of us are.”
―J.M. Barrie

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
―Dalai Lama XIV

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
―Vince Lombardi

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ”
―Oprah Winfrey

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
―Abraham Lincoln

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
―Niccolo Machiavelli

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
―Thomas A. Edison

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
―Zig Ziglar

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
―George Bernard Shaw

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
―Jason Mraz

“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
―Stephen Richards

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
―Woody Allen

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
―Joyce Brothers

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.”
―Jim Henson

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
―Dale Carnegie

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
―HEGEL

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
―Michael Jordan

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
―Amelia Earhart

“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
―Robert Strauss

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
―Elbert Hubbard

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
―Suzy Kassem

“Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.”
―Idowu Koyenikan

“All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t,’ — which is just another way of saying that you can’t.”
―Richard P. Feynman

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“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
―Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
―George S. Patton Jr.

“There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”
―Colin Powell

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”
―Helen Keller

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.”
―Bob Dylan

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”
―Oprah Winfrey

“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
―Ellen DeGeneres

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”
―John R Wooden

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
―Mark Twain

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
―Moliere

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
―George Eliot

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
―Pablo Picasso

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
―Paulo Coelho

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
―Audrey Hepburn

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
―Suzanne Collins

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
―C. JoyBell C.

“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
―George Bernard Shaw

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
―Rumi

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
―Oscar Wilde

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
―Mahatma Gandhi

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
―Oscar Wilde

“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

“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
―Napoleon Hill

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
―Theodore 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

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
―Lao Tzu

“If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
―Criss Jami

“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”
―Criss Jami

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?”
―Roy T. Bennett

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
―John A. Shedd

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
―Eckhart Tolle

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
―Alice Walker

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
―Lewis Carroll

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.”
―Christopher Paolini

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”
―Maya Angelou

“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
―Nicholas Sparks

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
―Steve Maraboli

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
―Anne Frank

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
―Harvey Fierstein

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
―Marilyn Monroe

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
―Henry David Thoreau

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
―Walt Whitman

“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
―Kurt Cobain

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ”
―Anthony Robbins

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
―Alexandre Dumas

“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. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”
―Michelle Obama

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
―H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
―Abraham Lincoln

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
―Rick Riordan

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“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”
―Bobbe Sommer

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
―Frank Herbert

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
―John Milton

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
―John Green

“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

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
―Dale Carnegie

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
―Robert Louis Stevenson

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
―Bob Marley

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
―Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
―Albert Schweitzer

“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
―Maya Angelou

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
―Norman Vincent Peale

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
―Gustave Flaubert

“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
―John Green

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
―Galileo Galilei

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
―Will Rogers

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
―A.A. Milne

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
―Coco Chanel

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
―Kazuo Ishiguro

“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
―Zig Ziglar

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
―Marilyn Monroe

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
―Albert Einstein

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
―Maya Angelou

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
―John F. Kennedy

“The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
―J. K. Rowling

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
―Herman Melville

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
―L.M. Montgomery

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
―Chico Xavier

“Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”
―Steve Maraboli

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
―Bob Ross

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
―Confucius

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
―L.M. Montgomery

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
―A.A. Milne

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
―Haruki Murakami

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
―Agatha Christie

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
―Vince Lombardi

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
―Walt Disney

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
―Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins

“It’s always to soon to quit!”
―Norman Vincent Peale

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
―Roy T. Bennett

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
―Voltaire

“A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.”
―Napoleon Hill

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
―Confucius

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
―Gordon B. Hinckley

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
―Oliver Goldsmith

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
―Steve Maraboli

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
―Winston S. Churchill

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
―Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
―Nora Roberts

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
―Winston S. Churchill

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
―A.A. Milne

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
―Maya Angelou

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
―Confucius

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
―Nelson Mandela

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”
―Mary Anne Radmacher

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
―Abraham Lincoln

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
―F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
―Martin Luther

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
―H.G. Wells

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
―Winston S. Churchill

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
―Ovid

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
―Babe Ruth

“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”

―Elvis Presley

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
―Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
―Dale Carnegie

“…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
―Brandon Sanderson

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
―Andy Warhol

“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
―Audrey Hepburn

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
―Nelson Mandela

“To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
―James A. Michener

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
―Tim Fargo

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”
―Anthony Robbins

“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”
―Robin Sharma

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
―Julie Andrews Edwards

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
―Samuel Johnson

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
―Isak Dinesen

“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”
―St. Catherine of Siena

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
―Newt Gingrich

“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
―Benjamin Franklin

“There always comes a time in life where you can either give up or step up.”
―Graeme Rodaughan

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”
―H. Jackson Brown

“Everything works out in the end. if it hasn’t worked out yet, then it’s not the end.”
―Tracy McMillan

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable”
―Thomas Fowell Buxton

“If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.”
―Terry Goodkind

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
―Theodore Roosevelt

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
―Frida Kahlo

“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
―Shannon L. Alder