230+ Motivational Quotes for Success & Daily Inspiration (2026)

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill”

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

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. —Henry David Thoreau”

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

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. —Calvin Coolidge”

“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. —Mister Rogers”

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. —John Wooden”

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. —Estée Lauder”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. —W. P. Kinsella”

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid instead of trying to be very intelligent. —Charlie Munger”

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. —Tina Fey”

“When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone. —Melissa McCarthy”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —Anaïs Nin”

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. —David Hurley”

“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. —Gilbert K. Chesterton”

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

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. —Theodore Roosevelt”

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively. —Eleanor Roosevelt”

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. —Vince Lombardi”

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. —Walt Disney”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. —Helen Keller”

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. —Alexander Graham Bell”

“Either you run the day or the day runs you. —Jim Rohn”

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. —Paulo Coelho”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. —Thomas Edison”

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. —Tony Robbins”

“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. —Steve Jobs”

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. —Sam Levenson”

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

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. —Thomas Jefferson”

“Work hard in silence, let success make the noise. —Frank Ocean”

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. —Jimmy Johnson”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. —Confucius”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit. —Aristotle”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. —Steve Jobs”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. —Aristotle”

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. —Tim Notke”

“Without labor nothing prospers. —Sophocles”

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. —Harry Golden”

“Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it. —Stephen Hawking”

“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. —Steve Jobs”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. —Albert Einstein”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. —Mark Twain”

“If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way. —Napoleon Hill”

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. —Jim Rohn”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. —Abraham Lincoln”

“Live out of your imagination, not your history. —Stephen Covey”

“Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage. —Unknown”

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. —Epicurus”

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. —Mary Anne Radmacher”

“If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person. —Clayton M. Christensen”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —Mark Twain”

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

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there. —Theodore Roosevelt”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. —William James”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. —Walt Disney”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. —William James”

“One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers. —Edmond Mbiaka”

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. —Lucille Ball”

“You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin. —Gordon B. Hinckley”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. —Marcus Aurelius”

“Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year. —David Dweck”

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

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger. —Germany Kent”

“Monday is a fresh start. It’s never too late to dig in and begin a new journey of success. —Unknown”

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. —Buddha”

“New Monday, new week, new goals. —Unknown”

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year. —David Dweck”

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction. —Unknown”

“This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you. —Unknown”

“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.”

“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek. —Kate Summers”

“Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. —S. O’Sade”

“Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor. —Nanea Hoffman”

“Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of. —Byron Pulsifer”

“When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend. —Catherine Pulsifer”

“It’s Friday! Time to go make stories for Monday. —Unknown”

“Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week. —Byron Pulsifer”

“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen. —Unknown”

“Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm. —Byron Pulsifer”

“Friday afternoon feels like heaven. —Unknown”

“Friday is about finishing strong and starting the weekend with purpose. —Unknown”

“The only happy end to a week is knowing you did your best. —Unknown”

“Cheers to the end of another work week. —Unknown”

“Friday is the golden child of the weekdays. —Unknown”

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

“If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it. —Tobias Lütke”

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. —Zig Ziglar”

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. —Pablo Picasso”

“Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. —Angela Bassett”

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. —Isabel Allende”

“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals. —David Ogilvy”

“I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes. —Barbara Elaine Smith”

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. —Charles Dickens”

“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, I believe. —Ovid”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities. —Robert H. Schuller”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. —Oprah Winfrey”

“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. —Maya Angelou”

“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them. —Unknown”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. —Chris Grosser”

“Your limitation is only your imagination. —Unknown”

“Great things never come from comfort zones. —Unknown”

“Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it. —Unknown”

“Dream it. Wish it. Do it. —Unknown”

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. —Unknown”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —Alice Walker”

“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it. —Beyoncé”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there. —Theodore Roosevelt”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. —Marcus Aurelius”

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

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —William James”

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Mahatma Gandhi”

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. —Vince Lombardi”

“With great power comes great responsibility. —Stan Lee”

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. —Tony Robbins”

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. —Dr. Henry Link”

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. —Roy T. Bennett”

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. —Booker T. Washington”

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. —Carl Jung”

“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them. —Albert Einstein”

“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. —Mahatma Gandhi”

“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. —Mark Twain”

“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. —Eleanor Roosevelt”

“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world. —Norman Vincent Peale”

“It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson”

“Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together. —Diane McLaren”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. —Joseph Campbell”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. —Friedrich Nietzsche”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. —Carl Jung”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. —Socrates”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. —Albert Einstein”

“The unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. —Oscar Wilde”

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. —Dalai Lama”

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

“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion. —Gary Vaynerchuk”

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

“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. —Les Brown”

“If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy. —Mark Cuban”

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen R. Covey”

“Do the best you can. No one can do more than that. —John Wooden”

“If you can dream it, you can do it. —Walt Disney”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. —Theodore Roosevelt”

“Everything you can imagine is real. —Pablo Picasso”

“Action is the foundational key to all success. —Pablo Picasso”

“The time is always right to do what is right. —Martin Luther King Jr.”

“What we think, we become. —Buddha”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. —Maya Angelou”

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart. —Confucius”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom. —Oprah Winfrey”

“Do more with less. —Unknown”

“Less perfection, more authenticity. —Unknown”

“Fall seven times, stand up eight. —Japanese Proverb”

“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. —Anne Lamott”

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buffet”

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. —Mortimer J. Adler”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday. —A. A. Milne”

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. —Martha Graham”

“Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself. —Jason Fried”

“He that can have patience can have what he will. —Benjamin Franklin”

“The only one who can tell you you can’t win is you, and you don’t have to listen. —Jessica Ennis”

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. —Bo Jackson”

“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them. —Mia Hamm”

“Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. —Walt Whitman”

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. —Henry Ford”

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

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. —Wayne Dyer”

“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity. —Arthur Ashe”

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. —Bill Gates”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. —Dalai Lama”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it. —Peter Drucker”

“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact. —Les Brown”

“Be so good they can’t ignore you. —Steve Martin”

“Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. —Cindy Gallop”

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. —Arthur C. Clarke”

“Worry is a misuse of imagination. —Unknown”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. —Maya Angelou”

“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now. —Edna Mode”

“A year from now you will wish you had started today. —Unknown”

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. —Steve Furtick”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. —Carl Sagan”

“I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned. —Jay-Z”

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. —Arianna Huffington”

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. —Erica Jong”

“You’ll never get bored when you try something new. —Dr. Seuss”

“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are. —Don Cheadle”

“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe. —Leymah Gbowee”

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. —Dolly Parton”

“If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right. —Childish Gambino”

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. —Jane Goodall”

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. —Louise Hay”

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. —Coco Chanel”

“Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. —Kurt Vonnegut”

“People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong. —Constance Wu”

“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. —Sonia Sotomayor”

“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. —Jennifer Lopez”

“No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed. —Billie Jean King”

“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger. —Mia Hamm”

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. —Michael Jordan”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. —Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. —Tim Ferriss”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. —Anaïs Nin”

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. —Steve Jobs”

“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”

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

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. —Frank Sinatra”

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

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

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner. —Arlan Hamilton”

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