199 Best Motivational Quotes For Success.

Motivational quotes and sayings remind you to keep pushing towards your goals and remain focused on your dreams. These simple but powerful words from popular and influential people will help you relate to them, their challenges, and how they overcame them.

1. Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you. unknown.
2. Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
3. A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for others.
4. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde
5. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath. unknown.
6. The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. Honore de Balzac
7. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. Jacob Braude
8. If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. Vince Lombardi
9. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Holmes
10. With the realization of one’s owns potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama
11. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela.

Motivational Quotes In English.

12. Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. Robert Anthony
13. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
14. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
15. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank
16. Many people think of prosperity that concerns money only to forget that true prosperity is of the mind. Byron Pulsifer
17. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh
18. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Buddha
19. It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
20. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato
21. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee
22. Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past! Charlotte Gilman
23. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa.

Short Motivational Quotes.

24. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Runbeck
25. The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work. Dalai Lama
26. If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
27. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid
28. I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. Og Mandino
29. We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. James Barrie
30. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. unknown.
31. To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
32. Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. Bruce Lee
33. I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
34. Today, give a stranger a smile without waiting for it may be the joy they need to have a great day. Byron Pulsifer
35. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller.

Simple Motivational Quotes From Influential People.

36. At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu
37. How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. Niels Bohr
38. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together. Georg Lichtenberg
39. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anais Nin
40. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
41. Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life. Byron Pulsifer
42. Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far. Charles Schwab
43. Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
44. Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change. Barbara Baron
45. You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach
46. You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. Lou Holtz
47. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

Super Motivational Quotes.

48. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Stevenson
49. The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. Charles DeLint
50. Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. Bruce Lee
51. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein
52. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. unknown.
53. Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. Paavo Nurmi
54. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
55. A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
56. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Emerson
57. He that never changes his opinions never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. Tryon Edwards
58. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
59. One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. E. M. Forster.

Motivational Quotes For Change.

60. We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us. David Seamans
61. Being inhumaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise? Confucius
62. To give hope to someone occurs when you teach them how to use the tools to do it for themselves. Byron Pulsifer
63. I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done. Lucille Ball
64. The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. Eckhart Tolle
65. If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. Ralph Emerson
66. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. Laurence J. Peter
67. I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. Elizabeth Arden
68. I find hope in the darkest of days and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama
69. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius
70. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla
71. Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night. Leo Aikman
72. He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso.

Motivational Quotes For Employees.

73. These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. Vernon Cooper
74. One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
75. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. Dalai Lama
76. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung
77. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha
78. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
79. Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. unknown
80. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
81. The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh
82. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. Jack Dixon
83. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. Chesterton.

Motivational Quotes For Life.

84. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley
85. All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. Lao-Tzu
86. You can be what you want to be. You have the power within and we will help you always. Byron Pulsifer
87. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes Gaertner
88. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
89. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb
90. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir
91. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
92. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
93. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance. Buddha
94. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
95. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William Ward
96. If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. Michael Jordan.

Motivational Quotes And Saying.

97. A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Holmes
98. I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others. Confucius
99. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus
100. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso
101. If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. Barack Obama
102. The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest
103. Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. unknown
104. Give it all you’ve got because you never know if there’s going to be a next time. Danielle Ingrum
105. You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. Old German proverb
106. Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. Ralph Blum
107. I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
108. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR STRENGTH.

Motivational Quotes For Students.

109. I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. Walter Cronkite
110. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
111. The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. Seneca
112. The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Chalmers
113. By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future. Thich Nhat Hanh
114. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Emerson
115. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Emerson
116. There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson
117. Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. Napoleon Hill
118. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that’s why they call it the present.
119. The only way, to tell the truth, is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. Henry Thoreau
120. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli.

Short Motivational Quotes.

121. You can only grow if you’re willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. Brian Tracy
122. To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves, there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion
123. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Mabel Newcomber
124. When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.
125. Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. Robert Graves
126. The thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Wright
127. A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
128. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
129. Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. Margaret Cousins
130. Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you’ll never get back.
131. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carlyle.

Deep Motivational Quotes.

132. Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl Buck
133. You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action. Catherine Pulsifer
134. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Tennyson
135. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
136. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid
137. You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind. Remez Sasson
138. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach
139. When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless. Pema Chodron
140. If you love someone, set them free. and If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach
141. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. David Jordan
142. Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! Richard Bach
143. No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts.

Inspirational Quotes On Life.

144. The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for. Oscar Wilde
145. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
146. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. Thomas Edison
147. If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. John Steinbeck
148. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
149. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. Eleanor Roosevelt
150. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley
151. If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. Epictetus
152. Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. Eknath Easwaran
153. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
154. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius
155. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Norman Schwarzkopf.

Positive Motivational Messages.

156. Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what’s right for you. Julie Morgenstern
157. Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal
158. Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life, for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them. Laura Teresa Marquez
159. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow. Chinese proverb
160. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln
161. Courage is not about taking risks unknowingly but putting your own being in front of challenges that others may not be able to. Byron Pulsifer
162. Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
163. The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. Harry Kemp
164. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own. Benjamin Disraeli
165. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
166. Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.
167. Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. Helen Keller.

Wise Words From Influential People.

168. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John Kennedy
169. You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
170. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur
171. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha
172. He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Longfellow
173. I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer
174. What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy, and how much we’ve grown as people. Daisaku Ikeda
175. When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus
176. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi
177. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte
178. With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama
179. Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Roosevelt
180. You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl Buck.

Amazing Wisdom Quotes.

181. Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel. Mary Kay Ash
182. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
183. Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dashes it from them. Sophocles
184. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
185. Responsibility is not inherited, it is a choice that everyone needs to make at some point in their life. Byron Pulsifer
186. Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do. Amelia Earhart
187. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
188. 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 Allen
189. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux.

Powerful Wisdom Quotes.

190. Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. Bernice Reagon
191. The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
192. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson.
193. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
194. You can’t create in a vacuum. Life gives you the material and dreams can propel new beginnings. Byron Pulsifer
195. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha
196. The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life. Daisaku Ikeda
197. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. Richard Bach
198. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley
199. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Buddha.

Conclusion.

Motivational Quotes to inspire you every day. No matter who you are we all need some motivational words every now and then to keep going. I hope this article provides some answers.

Sincerely Yours.