201 Motivational quotes for personal and business success

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1. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein.

2. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” - Beverly Sills.

3. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” - Bill Gates.

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

5. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” - General George Patton.

6. “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” - Reid Hoffman.

7. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney.

8. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” -Tony Hsieh.

9. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” - Scott Belsky.

10. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” - Guy Kawasaki.

11. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” - Reid Hoffman.

12. “Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” - Bruce Levin.

13. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney.

14. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” - Bill Gates.

15. “Everything started as nothing.” - Ben Weissenstein.

16. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”- Winston Churchill.

19. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”- John Maxwell.

20. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”– Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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

22. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon.

23. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin.

24. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

25. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe.

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

27. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown.

28. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti.

29. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington.

30. “You become what you believe.” –Oprah Winfrey.

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

32. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray.

33. “Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” – George Van Valkenburg.

34. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser.

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

36. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart.

37. “My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner.

38. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey.

39. “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” – Laurence Sterne.

40. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller.

41. “Well begun is half done.” - Greek proverb.

42. “Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.” - Josh Billings.

43. “He who hesitates is lost.” - Proverb.

44. “Fortune favours the brave.” - Publius Terence.

45. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need.” – Voltaire.

46. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth.

47. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”– Norman Vincent Peale.

48. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

49. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon Johnson.

50. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

51. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison.

52. “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius.

53. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky.

54. “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” ― Kellie Elmore.

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

56. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama.

57. “There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.” ― Danielle Sibarium, For Always.

58. “People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.” ― Sachin Tendulkar.

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

60. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou.

61. “A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” ― Amit Kalantri.

62. “You must embrace change before change erases you.” ― Rob Liano.

63. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan.

64. “You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.” – Joseph E. Levine.

65. “It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela.

66. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt.

67. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson.

68. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar.

69. “It Hurts…It Kills…It Teaches… It Thrills…“IT” Is LIFE…!” ― Sujit Lalwani.

70. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Neale Donald Walsch.

71. “If it is important to you , you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” ― Unknown.

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

73. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” ― Peter F. Drucker.

74. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ― Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

75. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” ― Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s.

76. “Even if you fall on your face you’re still moving forward.” ― Victor Kiam.

77. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google.

78. “Well done is better than well said.” ― Benjamin Franklin.

79. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” ―Tony Robbins.

80. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ― Charles Darwin.

81. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” ― Anonymous.

82. “It’s always too early to quit.” ― Norman Vincent Peale.

83. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem.

84. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ― Anonymous.

85. “Leap, and the net will appear.” ― John Burroughs.

86. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt.

87. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” ― Thomas Watson, Sr.

88. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ― John Wooden.

89. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ― Wayne Dyer

90. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” ― Grandma Moses.

91. “The only way around is through.” ― Robert Frost.

92. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ― Jim Rohn.

93. “One finds limits by pushing them.” ― Herbert Simon.

94. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ― Ayn Rand.

95. “The noblest search is the search for excellence.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson.

96. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” ― Anonymous.

97. “The wise does at once what the fool does at last.” ― Baltasar Gracian.

98. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln.

99. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” ― Les Brown.

100. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney.

101. “Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.” ― Sam Levenson.

102. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ― Benjamin Franklin.

103. “Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” ― Charles F. Kettering.

104. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” ― Anonymous.

105. “Step by step and the thing is done.” ― Charles Atlas.

106. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ― Steve Jobs.

107. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” ― Jim Rohn.

108. “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” ― Anonymous.

109. “I’ve failed over and over and over again. And that is why I succeed.” ― Michael Jordan.

110. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” ― Zig Ziglar.

111. “Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.” ― William Hazlitt.

112. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” ― Proverb.

113. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ― Mark Twain.

114. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” ― Le Iacocca.

115. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” ― Anonymous.

116. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ― Jim Rohn.

117. “Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose!” ― Max Schmelling.

118. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ― Chris Grosser.

119. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James.

120. “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” ― Pierre Corneille.

121. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ― Albert Einstein.

122. “Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ― Abraham Lincoln.

123. “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” ― Tony Dorsett.

124. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt.

125. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” ― Ralph Marston.

126. “I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.” ― Donald Trump.

127. “Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.” ― Chinese Proverb.

128. “The more things you do, the more you can do.” ― Lucille Ball.

129. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.” ― Napoleon Hill.

130. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents-start charging for it.” ― Kim Garst.

131. “There is always room at the top.” ― Daniel Webster.

132. “Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.” ― Bill Gates.

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

134. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ― Joseph Campbell.

135. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” ― Unknown.

136. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ― David Brinkley.

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

138. “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” ― Richard Paul Evans.

139. “Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.” ― Unknown.

140. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” ― Henry Ford.

141. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ― Henry Ford.

142. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ― Henri Matisse.

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

144. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” ― Winston Churchill.

145. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” ― Peter Marshall.

146. “Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself.” ― Saint Francis de Sales.

147. “Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” ― Unknown.

148. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ― Anonymous.

149. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” ― Jack London.

150. “The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy.

151. “Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” ― Unknown.

152. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” ― Anonymous.

153. “Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me.” ― Carol Burnett.

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

155. “Nobody cares about your excuses. Nobody pities you for procrastinating. Nobody is going to cuddle you because you are lazy. It’s your a**. You move it.” ― Unknown.

156. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” ― Oscar Wilde.

157. “When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.” ― Lolly Daskal.

158. “Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” ― Jean-Baptise Alphonse Karr.

159. “Sometimes there is no next time, no timeouts, and no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.” ― Unknown.

160. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” ― Bruce Feirstein.

161. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ― Babe Ruth.

162. “Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes you.” ― Anthony Robins.

163. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anybody else.” ― Unknown.

164. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ― John D. Rockefeller.

165. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ― Robert Collier.

166. “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.” ― Wilson Mizner.

167. “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” ― Henry Van Dyke.

168. “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” ― Anonymous.

169. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ― Vince Lombardi.

170. “Friends and good manners will carry you where money can’t go.” ― Margaret Walker.

171. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ― Albert Einstein.

172. “At one point in your life, you will either have the thing you want or reasons why you don’t.” ― Andy Roddick.

173. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ― Jim Ryun.

174. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ― Sir Winston Churchill.

175. “What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.” ― Unknown.

176. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Anonymous.

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

178. “Surrender to what it is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.” ― Sonia Ricotta.

179. “What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.” ― Unknown.

180. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” ― Anonymous.

181. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ― George Adair.

182. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ― John Muir.

183. “More thinking. More doing. Less doing nothing.” ― Unknown.

184. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” ― Anonymous.

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

186. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” ― Anatole France.

187. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” ― Les Brown.

188. “Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” ― Anonymous.

189. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ― Margaret Thatcher.

190. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.

191. “Always behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like like hell underwater.” ― Unknown.

192. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” ― Anonymous.

193. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” ― Anonymous.

194. “Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” ― Carl Gustav Jung.

195. “To be outstanding — get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” ― Alrik Koundenburg.

196. “You can do anything, but not everything.” ― Anonymous.

197. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” ― Epictetus.

198. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong.” ― Og Mandino.

199. “Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.” ― Anonymous.

200. “Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get from the work you didn’t do.” ― Unknown.

201. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” ― Thomas Jefferson.