I have a huge collection of quotes that I keep on notebooks and small journals. I decided to contribute some of the most amazing quotes I have ever encountered here on this post for the web. These are 111 motivational and inspirational quotes about success and winning in life.
Some of these quotes touched me deeply, some made me rethink things in life, some made me so patient and look at the big picture instead of going for instant gratifications, some made me change the people around me and some blew me away (in a good way :).
If you have any quote that is worth mentioning do please write to me in the comment section below. I’m planning to contribute a new post for quotes only, and I’ll make sure to add yours. In case you share any quote, hit us with one that will blow everyone away!
Thank you in advance! Enjoy!:)
#1
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
#2
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
#3
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
#4
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.
Earl Nightingale
#5
The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determine the power of your personality.
Henry David Thoreau
#6
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
#7
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
#8
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
#9
Character is what you are in the dark.
DWIGHT L. MOODY
#10
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
HELEN K E L L E R
#11
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
#12
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
#13
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
– Seneca
#14
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15
If you’re bored with life ––you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things ––you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
#16
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.
– Zig Ziglar
#17
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
–Maya Angelou
#18
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone
#19
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
–John Lennon
#20
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Farrah Gray
#22
Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan
#23
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George Patton
#25
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Adams
#26
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
#29
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
#30
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
#31
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne Dyer
#32
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
#33
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein
#34
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. Albert
Albert Einstein
#35
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another
Thomas Jefferson
#36
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim
#37
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar
#38
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
#39
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ”I’m sorry.”
Robert H. Schuller
#40
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Anthony Robbins
#42
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self–esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
#43
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44
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
#45
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Peter Davies
#46
Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47
Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
Kevin Kruse
#48
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
#49
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
#50
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
#51
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
#52
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
#53
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
#54
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
#55
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#56
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
#57
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Stephen Covey
#58
Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.
Swami Vivekananda
#59
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado
#60
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water
Rabindranath Tagore
#61
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
#62
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
#63
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy
#64
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
#65
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn
#66
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson
#67
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
Dwight Eisenhower
#68
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
#69
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
#70
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
#71
In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Brian Tracy
#72
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
W. Clement Stone
#73
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
#74
Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, ‘I love you!’ Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Mark Victor Hansen
#76
To escape criticism—do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
#77
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
James Allen
#78
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Colombus
#79
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll
#80
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
Lao Tzu
#81
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
#82
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi
#84
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Halil Gibran
#85
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs
#86
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson
#87
“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
#88
You must have long–range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short–range failures.
Charles C. Noble
#89
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales
Paul Sweeney
#90
The real pleasure of one’s life is the devotion to a great objective of one’s consideration.
George Bernard Shaw
#91
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
#92
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
#93
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#94
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Naapoleon Hill
#95
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing
Eva Young
#96
“The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.”
Wallace D. Wattles
#97
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Washington Irving
#98
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
Rumi
#100
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#101
“Vague goals produce vagueresults.”
Jack Canfield
#102
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
#103
“Happiness comes from mastery and meaning. Not moneyand materials.”
Robin Sharma
#104
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#105
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#106
107 “There are two types of people – anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they’re having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down.”
Wyland
#107
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practices one kick 10000 times.”
Bruce Lee
#108
There is no passion to be found playing small.
Nelson Mandela
#109
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
#110
“I just do not hang around anybody that I don’t want to be with. Period. For me, that’s been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don’t mind saying sorry or thank you… and (are) having a fun time.”
John Assaraf
#111
Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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