51 BEST POSITIVE QUOTES FOR SUCCESS - BEST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES - MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR SUCCESS

 

We must realize as entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and bosses that whatever we think counts. We must think successful, encouraging, and motivating ideas if we want to achieve our goals.

Continue reading for words of wisdom to help you create your business, lead your life, achieve your objectives, and overcome your worries.

1. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” —Anonymous

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

3. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” —Anonymous

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

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

6. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” —Swami Vivekananda

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

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

9. “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” —Anonymous

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

11. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” —Proverb

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

13. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” —Vaibhav Shah

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

15. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” —Albert Einstein

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

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

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

19. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley

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

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

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

23. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” —Anonymous

24. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” —Anonymous

25. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” —Oscar Wilde

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

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

28. “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 Waitley

29. “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” —Jane Smiley

30. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” —George Bernard Shaw

31. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” —Diane Ackerman

32. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

33. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” —Jim Ryun

34. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie

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

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

37. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer

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

39. “Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” —John C. Maxwell

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

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

42. “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

43. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” —Booker T. Washington

44. “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” —Theodore N. Vail

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

46. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid.” —Spencer Johnson

47. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” —Washington Irving

48. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote

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

50. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” —Margaret Thatcher

51. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” —Vince Lombardi

As we read these thoughts, remember that they can provide advice in times of need, inspiration in times of hardship, and motivation in times of adversity–success is not final, and failure is not permanent.