- “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” — Socrates, father of Western philosophy
- “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
- “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
- “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” — Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine
- “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” — Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s
- “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker
- The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either.
- Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
- If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” — Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
- “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” — Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
- “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” — Tim O’Reilly, founder, and CEO of O’Reilly Media
- “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” — Jeffrey Zeldman, entrepreneur and web designer
- “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
- “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur and co-founder of Alltop
- “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter
- “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” — Jason Cohen, founder of Smartbear Software
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
- “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” — Steve Case, co-founder of AOL
- “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States
- “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Charles R. Swindoll, author, educator, and radio preacher
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney, founder of the Disney Brother Studio and Disneyland
- “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
- “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” — Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
- “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis, British writer
- “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer
- “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher, author
- “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, author
- “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
- “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist
- “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser, British statistician
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II
- “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller, American motivational speaker
- “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier, author
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley, newscaster for NBC and ABC
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather, American publisher and author
- “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
- “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”— Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton, Founder of the Hilton Hotels chain
- “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the civil rights movement
- “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” — Jill Konrath, speaker, author and thought leader
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
- “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” — Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.”
– Louis Pasteur, French biologist, microbiologist and chemist - “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale, American radio speaker and author
- “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” ― Chuck Yeager, former United States Air Force officer
- “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
- “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” — Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and President of the United States
- “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell, US statesman and retired four-star General in the United States Army
- “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” — Jonathan Sacks, British author and politician
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden, American writer
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth, American professional baseball player
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, known as “First Lady of the World” for her human rights advocacy
- “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” — Marissa Mayer, president & CEO of Yahoo!
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine, author
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa, political leader, and philanthropist
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey, American educator, author, and businessman
- “The Ultimate Measure Of A Man Is Not Where He Stands In Moments Of Comfort And Convenience, But Where He Stands At Times Of Challenge And Controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the civil rights movement
- “Being Challenged In Life Is Inevitable, Being Defeated Is Optional.” — Roger Crawford, public speaker, author, and certified tennis professional
- “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, director of strategy and partnerships at Spredfast
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” — Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, owner of Landmark Theaters and Chairman of AXS TV
- “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” — Jeff Bezos, founder, and CEO of Amazon
- “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” — Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur, and blogger
- “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox
- “Failure Will Never Overtake Me If My Determination To Succeed Is Strong Enough.” – Og Mandino, American author
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair, real-estate developer
- “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield, American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur
- “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, entrepreneur and inventor
- “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty—six 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, former professional basketball player
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar, American author
- “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.”— Lily Tomlin, American actress
- “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers, American actor
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States
- “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris, American journalist
- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard, American salesman
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
- “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Sam Levenson, American humorist
- “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ – Robert Downey Jr., American actor
- “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie, American writer
- “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers, American actor
- ”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky, Rocky Balboa
- “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort, Wolf of the Wall Street
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather
- “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
- “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred, Batman Begins
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – Shrek, Shrek The Third
- “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator
- “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- “The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.” – Socrates, from Peaceful Warrior
- It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. – Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
- “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, The Lion King
- “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
- “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr., American author
- “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” — Richard Bach, American writer
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb, author
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey, author
- “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, and poet
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden, American basketball player