200 Motivational and inspirational Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success

200 Motivational and inspirational
Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success
By
Kathy Collins

Introduction
These famous quotes about life and success are
said by the greatest achievers in the history. They
are valuable knowledge, wisdom and insights
passed down to us from the past all the way to
the present. Through these quotations, we are
learning from their greatest experiences and
wisdom.
I personally use such motivational quotes
throughout my life. I always surround myself
with these quotes. I post them in such places so
that I can be inspiredevery day. I believe that our
circumstances can change based on what words
we read, hear, and speak.
Instead of keeping these to myself, I decided to
compile 200 of the most inspiring quotes ever
said so that you can also benefit from these
words of wisdom. Some are by famous people
and some are by those you probably never heard

of but their quotes are in the same way
remarkable.
I trust you will find them insightful and useful. I
hope it helps to motivates and inspires you to
reach a new level of success and personal
greatness in your life. Just as much as it does for
me. Use these quotes to fill your life with
positive, inspirational words that will fuel the
engine of your mind.
I certainly hope that you will also see this as a
resource rather than just a quick article to read. I
encourage you to save this as a resource so that
you can come back to it when you need to be
motivated. Even reading one or two of these
every day will be a great source of positive energy
for your day to day life.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you
gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
Either write something worth reading or do
something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
Many of life’s failures are experienced by
people who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll
have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time. - Joe
Girard

When the need to succeed is as bad as the
need to breathe, then you’ll be successful. - Eric
Thomas
The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah
Winfrey
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else
is afraid of winning. -Billie Jean King
When people hurt you over and over, think of
them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt
you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and
they end up useless. - Chris Colfer
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What
separates the talented individual from the
successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen
King

Do not follow where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll
die today. - James Dean
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
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -
Wayne Gretzky
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of
how I react to it. - Charles Swindoll

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. -
Jim Rohn
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin
you have, and only you can determine how it will
be spent. Be careful lest you let other people
spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
When one door closes, another opens; but we
often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Good things come to people who wait, but better
things come to those who go out and get them. -
Anonymous
It is never too late to be what you might have
been. - George Eliot

Whether you think you can or you think you
can’t, you’re right. - Henry Ford
People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we
recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if
you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up!
You're right on track. - Matthew Keith Groves
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the moments that take our breath
away. - Maya Angelou
Too many of us are not living our dreams
because we are living our fears. - Les Brown
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make
it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever
achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new. - Albert Einstein
Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
The only thing worse than being blind is
having sight but no vision. - Helen Keller
Don't count the days, make the days count. -
Muhammad Ali
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire
you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

All our dreams can come true if we have the
courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living
someone else's life. -Steve Jobs
When everything seems to be going against you,
remember that the airplane takes off against the
wind, not with it. - Henry Ford
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do. - John Wooden
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the
life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five
minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll
do things differently. - Warren Buffett

Find out what you like doing best and get
someone to pay you for doing it.- Katherine
Whitehorn
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the
excitement of winning. - Robert Kiyosaki
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it
isn’t open. - Frank Zappa
Stop chasing the money and start chasing the
passion. -Tony Hsieh
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead
of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy
Garland
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't
do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. - Tim
Ferriss

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is
enough. -Mae West
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you
will land among the stars. - Les Brown
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that
won't work. - Thomas Edison
We must accept finite disappointment, but never
lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do. - Mark Twain
Only put off until tomorrow what you are
willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is
what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will
take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent
goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. -
Tony Robbins
It always seems impossible until it’s done. -
Nelson Mandela
You only have to do a very few things right in
your life so long as you don’t do too many things
wrong. - Warren Buffet
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance
Armstrong
If you don’t know what you want, you end up
with a lot you don’t. - Chuck Palahniuk

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass.
It's about learning how to dance in the rain. -
Vivian Greene
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts. - Winston
Churchill
Success is doing what you want, when you
want, where you want, with whom you want, as
much as you want. - Anthony Robbin
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
You are never too old to set another goal or to
dream a new dream. -C.S. Lewis
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you
down or polishes you up is for you and you alone
to decide. - Cavett Robert

The death rate for people who play it safe and for
people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti
Digh
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. -
Benjamin Franklin
The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settled for. - Maureen
Dowd
Everything you want is just outside your comfort
zone. - Robert Allen
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. –
African Proverb
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same
mistakes, only sooner. - Tallulah Bankhead
The only place where success comes before
work is in the dictionary. -Donald M. Kendall

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over
again, but expecting different results. - Albert
Einstein
Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter, and those who
matter won't mind. - Dr. Seuss
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often
serves simply as something to aim at. - Bruce Lee
Two sure ways to fail: Think and never do or do
and never think. - Zig Ziglar
No matter how many mistakes you make or how
slow you progress, you are still way ahead of
everyone who isn’t trying. - Anthony Robbins
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Paulo
Coelho

When you feel like giving up, remember why you
held on for so long in the first place. - Unknown
Your outer world is a reflection of your inner
world. If you change your thinking, you change
your life.- Brian Tracy
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it
probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank Clark
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use
our imaginations, our possibilities become
limitless. - Jamie Paolinetti
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man
can take it away from him. An investment in
knowledge always pays the best interest. -
Benjamin Franklin
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just
take the first step. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep
going. - Sam Levenson

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin
Franklin
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put
a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the
great. - John D. Rockefeller
We become what we think about most of the
time, and that's the strangest secret. - Earl
Nightingale
Work like you don't need the money, love like
you've never been hurt and dance like no one is
watching - Satchel Paige
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run
over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is
not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions. Watch
your actions; they become habits. Watch your
habits; they become character. Watch your
character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank
Outlaw
Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward
Young
The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest
is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
- Seth Godin
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot
and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement. - Jim
Horning
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental
attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on

earth can help the man with the wrong mental
attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door. -
Milton Berle
Your attitude determines your altitude. - Zig
Ziglar
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live. - Joan Baez
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things
you have that money can't buy. - Proverb
You will never find time for anything. If you want
time you must make it. - Charles Buxton
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in
what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie
The harder you fall the higher you bounce. -
Horace

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently. -Henry Ford
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get
dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. - Cale Yarborough
Advice is what we ask for when we already know
the answer but wish we didn’t. - Erica Jong
Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions
drown your inner voice. – Steve Jobs
Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make
yours shine brighter. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You can do anything, but not everything. - David
Allen
Someone is sitting in the shade today because
someone planted a tree a long time ago. -Warren
Buffett

No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You have enemies? Good. That means you've
stood up for something, sometime in your life. -
Winston Churchill
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far
more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling
Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all
yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined
for mediocrity. - Donald Trump
You don't drown by falling in the water; you
drown by staying there. - Edwin Louis Cole
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world
were watching. - Thomas Jefferson
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and
staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

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
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at
something you love than to be a success at
something you hate. - George Burns
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once,
to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn
how to do it. And a third time to figure out
whether you like it or not. - Virgil Thomson
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been
trusted to take the game winning shot and
missed. I've failed over and over and over again
in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael
Jordan

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're
always walking on tiptoe. - Marion C. Blakely
You cannot change your destination overnight,
but you can change your direction overnight. -
Jim Rohn
No matter how you feel...get up, dress up, show
up and Never Give Up! - Zig Ziglar
Most people fail in life not because they aim too
high and miss, but because they aim too low and
hit. - Les Brown
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it
gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of
the world can’t put you down unless you allow it
to get inside you. - Goi Nasu
You are not your job. You are not how much you
have in the bank. You are not the contents of
your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not
a beautiful and unique snowflake. - Tyler Durden

Hey. Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't
do something. Not even me. Alright? You've got
a dream, you've gotta protect it. People can't do
something themselves, they wanna tell you you
can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
- Will Smith
Successful people do what unsuccessful people
are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier,
wish you were better. - Jim Rohn
You've got to get up every morning with
determination if you're going to go to bed with
satisfaction. - George Lorimer
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds
discuss events; Small minds discuss people. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's
why it is called the present. - Alice Morse Earle

The man who follows the crowd will usually get
no further than the crowd. The man who walks
alone is likely to find himself in places no one has
ever been. - Alan Ashley-Pitt
I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to
be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be. -
Muhammad Ali
The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. -
Thomas Merton
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
You cannot control what happens to you, but you
can control your attitude toward what happens
to you, and in that, you will be mastering change
rather than allowing it to master you. - Brian
Tracy

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half
your success; if you don't, you have achieved half
your failure. - David Ambrose
When you miss a shot, never think of what you
did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what
you must do right. - Tony Alfonso
If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign
you're playing it too safe. - John Maxwell
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will
go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan,
your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good
things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn
Problems can become opportunities when the
right people come together. - Robert Redford

Behind every successful man there's a lot of
unsuccessful years. - Bob Brown
The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in
every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
If you envy successful people, you create a
negative force field of attraction that repels you
from ever doing the things that you need to do to
be successful. If you admire successful people,
you create a positive force field of attraction that
draws you toward becoming more and more like
the kinds of people that you want to be like. -
Brian Tracy
Keep away from people who try to belittle your
ambition. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great. - Mark Twain

The road to success is always under
construction." - Lily Tomlin
Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?'
I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why
not?' - George Bernard Shaw
Nature gave men two ends... one to sit on and
one to think with. Ever since then man's success
or failure has been dependent on the one he used
most. - George R. Kilpatrick
If you don't know where you are going, every
road will get you nowhere. - Henry Kissinger
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is
difficult is getting up and taking action. - Al Batt
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend
passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft
and I am the owner of Microsoft. - Bill Gates

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to
work a day in your life. - Confucius
The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this
world, are those who care the most about what
other people think. - C. JoyBel
Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway,
so think BIG! - Donald Trump
The only man who never makes mistakes is the
man who never does anything. - Theodore
Roosevelt
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily
well. - Jim Rohn

The future has several names. For the weak, it is
impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown;
but for the valiant, it is ideal. - Victor Hugo
You will never reach your destination if you stop
and throw stones at every dog that barks. -
Winston Churchill
Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that
when people see you do it they will want to come
back and see you do it again and they will want
to bring others and show them how well you do
what you do. - Walt Disney
In the business world, the rearview mirror is
always clearer than the windshield. - Warren
Buffett
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are
a leader. - John Quincy Adams

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current.
Even a dead one can float with it. - John Crowe
I am careful not to confuse excellence with
perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection
is God's business. - Michael J. Fox
When a man blames others for his failures, it's a
good idea to credit others with his successes. -
Howard W. Newton
The successful people are the ones who can think
up things for the rest of the world to keep busy
at. - Don Marquis
Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a
package of flower seeds and then throwing them
away because they're not pretty. - Arthur
VanGundy

We think about all of our tomorrows, but we
don’t know how many they are, so let’s start
making the most of our Todays! - Ivana Trump
The major difference between the big shot and
the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot
who kept on shooting. - Zig Ziglar
There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of
little steps. - Peter A. Cohen
The wise man must remember that while he is a
descendant of the past, he is a parent of the
future. - Herbert Spencer
What you are is what you have been. What you’ll
be is what you do now. - Buddha

Remembering you are going to die is the best
way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have
something to lose. You are already naked. There
is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve
Jobs.
History shows us that the people who end up
changing the world – the great political, social,
scientific, technological, artistic, even sports
revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are
right, and then they are geniuses. - John Eliot
Every second you spend thinking about someone
else’s dreams you take time away from your own.
- Yogi Ramen
The only reason we don’t have what we want in
life is the reasons we create why we can’t have
them. - Tony Robbins

Everything is always created twice, first in the
mind and then in reality. - Stephen Covey
You need a plan to build a house. To build a life,
it is even more important to have a plan or goal.
- Zig Ziglar
Why compare yourself with others? No one in
the entire world can do a better job of being you
than you. - Unknown
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert
Hubbard
Others can stop you temporarily – you are the
only one who can do it permanently. - Zig Ziglar
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for
the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn

Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a
year from now?’ - Richard Carlson
You are the average of the five people you spend
most time with. - Jim Rohn
Vision without action is a daydream. Action
without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese
Proverb
If you are going through hell, keep going. -
Winston Churchill
Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes
People may doubt what you say, but they will
believe what you do. - Lewis Cass
Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel
darkness. - J. Parker

You are today where your thoughts have brought
you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts
take you. - James Allen
The wise man reads both books and life itself. -
Lin Yutang
I recommend to you to take care of the minutes;
for hours will take care of themselves. - Lord
Chesterfield
Do not plant your dreams in the field of
indecision, where nothing ever grows but the
weeds of 'what-if.' - Dodinsky
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead
of just hacking at the leaves. - Anthony J.
D'Angelo
Some people like my advice so much that they
frame it upon the wall instead of using it. -
Gordon R. Dickson

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of
the night. - Terri Guillemets
A person often meets his destiny on the road he
took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of
choice. - William Jennings Bryan
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A
teacher, though, awakens your own
expectations. - Patricia Neal
If you want to succeed you should strike out on
new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of
accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller
Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when
he sticks his neck out. - Bruce Levin
I don't believe in pessimism. If something
doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead.

If you think it's going to rain, it will. - Clint
Eastwood
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is
knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -
David Starr Jordan
Associate yourself with men of good quality if
you esteem your own reputation. It is better be
alone than in bad company. - George
Washington

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