Super 60+ Motivational Quotes by Famous People

“If you can count your money, then you are not rich.”
-Paul Getty

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

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice.”
— Pele

“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 which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller

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

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

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson, Sr., former CEO, IBM

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
– Aristotle

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

“The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.”
– Mary Catherine Bateson

“I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher

“It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer, Apple

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

“When we really pay attention, everything is your teacher.”
– Ezra Bayda

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

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.“
– Brene Brown

“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

“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

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

“What’s meant to be doesn’t happen on its own. Sometimes you have to fight like hell for it.”
— Sean Colarossi

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

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”
– Peter Drucker

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

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”
– Peter Drucker

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

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

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” – Herbert A. Simon

“Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.”
– Peter Drucker

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” —Napoleon Hill

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie

“Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous

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

“What gets measured gets improved.”
– Peter Drucker

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar

“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.” – Jeff Bezos

“An idea is a new combination of old elements.”
– Gordon Drydon

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

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” —Bruce Lee

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
– Thomas A. Edison

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

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
– Albert Einstein

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

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.” – Bob Marley

“If you don’t change your direction, you may end up where you are going.” – Lao Tzu

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

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try.” – Toni Morrison

“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