139 Motivational Quotes For Becoming A Successful Person

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Motivation is the driving force that keeps us going. It makes us want to grow, learn, and achieve. Without motivation, we would not be able to get anything done and would stagnate. It is important to remember that success is not a finite resource. Success should be pursued to develop our skillsets, follow interests, and have the opportunity to learn something new.

Some people are more motivated than others. They have a hard time stopping themselves from achieving their goals because of their intense drive to succeed. But others do not have this drive, and it becomes difficult for them to stay motivated. They will struggle with self-motivation because they do not desire to keep going even when faced with challenges or setbacks in life.

It is important to remember that the drive for success doesn’t have to be limited to a monetary goal or a title. It can be as simple as achieving personal goals like going on a vacation with family members or getting into better shape. All of these things can make you happier and more successful in life, even if they don’t offer material gain.

Everyone has their own motivations for success. It is important to figure out what you want the most out of life and use it as your motivation. These powerful quotes will give you the inspiration you need to make the most of every day and do anything in your power to become successful.

139 Motivational Quotes For Becoming A Successful Person

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

“When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” ― Jim Rohn

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

“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” ― Jillian Michaels

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

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

“Nothing will work unless you do.” ― Maya Angelou

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

“Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.” ― Warren Buffett

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ― Michael John Bobak

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ― Henry Ford

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

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

“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” ― Mike Gafka

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” ― Gurbaksh Chahal

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

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

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

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

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” ― Marian Diamond

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” ― Gurbaksh Chahal

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

“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” ― Martha Stewart

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique; just like everyone else.” ― Margaret Mead

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

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

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” ― Mark Twain

“Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.” ― Joe Rogan

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

“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 that has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” ― Earl Nightingale

“The man who says he can, and the man who says he can’t are both correct.” ― Confucius

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” ― Ray Goforth

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” ―Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” ― Mark Cuban

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

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” ― Amelia Earhart

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ― Aristotle Onassis

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ― Harriet Beecher Stow

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

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

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

“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

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

“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ― Bruce Lee

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ― Jim Rohn

“There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.” ― Richard Branson

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ― Francis of Assisi

“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” ― Swati Sharma

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ― Richard Branson

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” ― Francis Chan

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

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” ― Charles Buxton

“You just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.” ― Mark Cuban

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

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ― Dale Carnegie

“Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” ― Wayne Dyer

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

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

“There are two kinds of people in this world; those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.” ― John C. Maxwell

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” ― Pele

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

“The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” ― Matty Mullens

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” ― Muhammad Ali

“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” ― Bob Riley

“Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful, and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.” ― Orrin Woodward

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

“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” ― Chantal Sutherland

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

“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” ― Salvador Dali

“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” ― Tony Robbins

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

“Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.” ― Dragos Roua

“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” ― Nelson Mandela

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” ― Estee Lauder

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” ― Arnold Palmer

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ― Pablo Picasso

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

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost

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

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ― Charles Swindoll

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.” ― Elon Musk

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

“Every problem is a gift –- without problems we would not grow.” ― Tony Robbins

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” ― Napoleon Hill

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” ― George Herbert

“Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.” ― Bobby Unser

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” ― Wayne Dyer

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

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ― Vidal Sassoon

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

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” ― Michael Korda

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ― Steve Jobs

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ― Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.” ― Benny Lewis

“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” ― George Whitefield

“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.” ― Barbara Baron

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” ― John C. Maxwell

“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” ― Les Brown

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ― Dale Carnegie

“You can do anything, but not everything.” ― David Allen

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

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” ― Denis Watiley

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

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

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.” ― Joel Osteen

“Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something…Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.” ― Joe Rogan

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

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ― Norman Vincent Peale

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” ― Thomas J. Watson

“Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.” ― Mark Cuban

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

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” ― Colin R. Davis

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” ― Michael Phelps

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!“ –T. Harv Eker

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” ― Robert Kiyosaki

“I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey

“Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ― Charles Dickens

“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” ― Kevin Ngo

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett

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

“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” ― Philippos “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” ― Anonymous

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