50 Inspirational Quotes from Successful People To Motivate You Today

There is something about inspirational quotes and motivational sayings that have an amazing ability to change the way we feel about life. When we read them, we change our outlook and decide a path of our success. They change our mindset and give us the freedom to choose between lethargy and life.

When you read inspirational quotes, they change the quality of your thinking and you change the quality of your life. Sometimes, they have an instant effect, sometimes they are always at the back of your mind. Like, personally, the quote "Speed Doesn't Matter, Forward is Forward" has always inspired me. I am not dissatisfied with my life, while I constantly strive to be better.

Thus, because positive words can make someone change their lives, I have enlisted 50 inspirational quotes that may change your life.

Motivational / Inspirational Quotes

1. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein.

2. “I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” – Leah Busque.

3. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington.

4. “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown.

5. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

6. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma.

7. “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ― K’wan

8. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates.

9. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – David Goggins.

10. “Take the stones that people throw at you and use them to build a monument.” – Ratan Tata.

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

12. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers.

13. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen.

14. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.

15. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer.

16. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis.

17. “Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back!” - Victoria Addino.

18. “The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful.”- Israelmore Ayivor.

19. “For every reason that it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield.

20. “Foreign invaders might kill my body, but only I could kill my spirit.” - Viet Thanh Nguyen

21. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” - Alan Watts

22. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama

23. “Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.” - Christine Caine

24. “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” - John Guare

25. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” - Benjamin Disraeli

26. “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

27. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.” - Vince Lombardi

28. “Speak less than you know; have more than you show.” - William Shakespeare

29. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” - Larry Winget

30. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

31. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.” - Maya Angelou

32. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

― Albert Einstein

33. “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” - Nido Qubein

34. “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” -  Vince Lombardi

35. “If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” - Bruce Lee

36. “Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” -  Khalil Gibran

37. “Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.” - Steve Jobs

38. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” - Bill Keane

39. “You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” - Dr Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

40. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston S. Churchill

41. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” - Sydney Harris

42. “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” - Zig Ziglar

43. “When ordinary people decide to step out and be part of something big, that’s when they become extraordinary.” - Brett Harris

44. “ One must not focus on the risk of saying, "Yes." The greater risk is missing opportunities by saying, "No." ” - Charles Sullivan

45. “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

46. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” - Peter F Drucker

48. “You gotta stay hungry! Stay focused! And you better have Heart! The heart of a champion!” - Eric Thomas

49. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” - John F. Kennedy

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

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