Success Quotations For
Motivation And Inspiration

Quotations from some of the world's greatest leaders and thinkers.

"Success is a journey, not a destination."
-Unknown

"If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go."
-John B. Gough

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
-George E. Allen

"Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgement."
-Tony Robbins

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed"; you find that it simply means to follow through."
-F. W. Nichol

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
-Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
-Henry Ford

"The Level of our success is limited only by our imagination." "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
-Aesop

"The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The true measure of a man's wealth is in the things he can afford not to buy."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your attitude determines your altitude."
-John Maxwell

"Without Adversity, without change, life is boring. The paradox of comfort is that we stop trying."
-John Amatt

Where there is no vision, the people perish."
-Hebrew Proverb

"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
"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
-Mark Twain

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress."
-Nicholas Murry Butler

"Even if you're on the right track, you won't get anywhere if you're standing still."
-Will Rogers

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."
-Edward Everett Hale

"Life is formed from the inside out. What I am inside determines the issues in the battle of life."
-Dr. William Hornaday

"What worries you, masters you."
-Haddon W. Robinson

-Nelson Mandela

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"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
-Robert H. Schuller

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
-Nelson Boswell

"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."
-Les Brown

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
-Robert Brault

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."
-William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
-Eric Hoffer

"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible."
-Robert Schuller

"You can have everything you want if you help others get what they want"
-Zig Ziglar.

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
-Robert H. Schuller

"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
-Roy D. Chapin Jr.

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
-Alexander Graham Bell

"Some men see things as they are and ask "why?" I dare to dream of things that never were and ask, "Why Not?"
-RFK (George Bernard Shaw)

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins... not through strength, but through persistence." "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
-Napoleon Hill

"Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future."
-Chris Widener

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
-Nelson Boswell

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
-Brian Tracy

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne Gretzky

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
-George Washington Carver

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it."
-Samuel Goldwyn

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."
-Lao-Tzu, {BC 600-Unknown Chinese Philosopher

"I never see failure as failure, but only as a learning experience."
-Tom Hopkins

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."
-Dale Carnegie

"Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side."
-Fridtjof Nansen Polar Explorer and Nobel Laureate

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist}

"Helen Keller was once asked if there was anything worse than losing one's sight. She responded, "Yes, losing one's vision."

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
-Robert H. Schuller

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

"The conquering of fear is the beginning of wisdom."
-J. M. Cousteau

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
-Napoleon Hill

"If you don't think everyday is a good one, just try missing one."
-Cavett Robert

"It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream."
-Bern Williams

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
-John Irving

"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."
-Peter F. Drucker

"A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there."
-David Gergen

"If you want to succeed in your Life, remember this phrase: The Past does not equal The Future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last 16 years; or the last fifty years of Life,doesn't mean anything...All that matters is: What are you going to do, RIGHT NOW!!?"
-Anthony Robbins

"Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"Leadership determines the direction of the company. Organization determines the potential of the company. Personell determine the success of the company."
-John Maxwell

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between."
-Pat Riley

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
-John Barrymore, in Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince, 1943.

"We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody."
-Frederick Lewis Allen, in Arthur Goodfriend, What Is America?, 1954

"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
-Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1970

"When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements."
-Pearl Bailey, The Raw Pearl, 1968

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation."
-Pearl S. Buck, The Goddess Abides, 1972.

"If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference."
-Edward M. Kennedy, speech, June 4, 1978, in Henry Steele Commager, ed., Our Day and Generation, 1979.

"You got to do before you can be, you got to be before you can have."
-Zig Ziglar.

"The past does not equal the future"
-Tony Robbins

"Money will buy me a house, but not a home, a bed, but not a good night's sleep."
-Zig Ziglar

"Talent develops itself in solitude, character in life's stream."
-Goethe

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."
-Leo Tolstoy

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."