101 Inspirational Quotes from Super Successful People

1. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. –Mahatma Gandhi
2. Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. –Coco Chanel
3. Courage is grace under pressure. –Ernest Hemingway
4. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. –Albert Einstein
5. Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. –Ellen DeGeneres
6. It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. –Confucius
7. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. –Warren Buffett
8. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. –Dr. Seuss
9. You only live once, but if you do right, once is enough. –Mae West
10. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. –Christopher Reeve
11. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. –Nelson Mandela
12. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. –Helen Keller
13. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
14. The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. –Walt Disney
15. When you cease to dream you cease to live. –Malcolm Forbes
16. May you live every day of your life. –Jonathan Swift
17. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. –Oprah Winfrey
18. If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve. –Jeff Bezos
19. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. –Coco Chanel
20. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
21. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. –Dolly Parton
22. The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. –Frank Lloyd Wright
23. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. –Michael Jordan
24. You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you. –Katie Couric
25. I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine. –Neil Armstrong
26. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. –Mary Kay Ash
27. If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything. –Malcolm X
28. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
29. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. –Abraham Lincoln
30. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. –William Edward Hickson
31. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. –Audrey Hepburn
32. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. –John Quincy Adams
33. If your are going through hell, keep going. –Winston Churchill
34. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. –Oprah Winfrey
35. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. –Colin Powell
36. The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. –Mark Zuckerberg
37. Do one thing every day that scares you. –Eleanor Roosevelt
38. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. –Dalai Lama
39. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. –John D. Rockefeller
40. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. –Drew Houston
41. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. –Helen Keller
43. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. –Mother Teresa
44. Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow. –Jay-Z
45. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. –Katharine Hepburn
46. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. –Walt Disney
47. I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. –Charlotte Bronte
48. Don’t count the days, make the days count. –Muhammad Ali
49. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. –Michael Jordan
50. Life is short, and it is here to be lived. –Kate Winslet
51. Everything you can imagine is real. –Pablo Picasso
52. 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
53. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
54. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. –Steve Wozniak
55. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. –Maya Angelou
56. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. –Deepak Chopra
57. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
58. We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. –Hillary Clinton
59. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. –Bill Gates
60. There are no mistakes, only opportunities. –Tina Fey
61. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. –Ronald Reagan
62. Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. –Oscar Wilde
63. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein
64. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. –Nelson Mandela
65. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
66. But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid. –Arianna Huffington
67. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. –Jimi Hendrix
68. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
69. If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people. –Leonardo DiCaprio
70. Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. –Michelle Obama
71. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. –Warren Buffett
72. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. –George Bernard Shaw
73. The best way of learning about anything is by doing. –Richard Branson
74. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. –John F. Kennedy
75. Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. –Babe Ruth
76. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. –Harriet Tubman
77. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
78. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. –Billie Jean King
79. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
80. If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. –Bill Clinton
81. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. –Martin Luther King, Jr.
82. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. –Arnold Schwarzenegger
83. Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. –Ellen DeGeneres
84. Your voice can change the world. –Barack Obama
85. The more you dream, the farther you get. –Michael Phelps
86. You must do the things you think you cannot do. –Eleanor Roosevelt
87. Every moment is a fresh beginning. –T.S. Eliot
88. A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. –Bob Dylan
89. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. –Andrew Carnegie
90. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. –Frederick Douglass
91. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
92. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J.K. Rowling
93. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. –martin Luther King, Jr.
94. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. –Barack Obama
95. If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. –Elon Musk
96. Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades, bumps, and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested. Have the courage to accept that you’ve not perfect, nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK. –Katie Couric
97. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
98. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. –e. e. cummings
99. Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. –Stephen Hawking
100. Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. –Albert Einstein
101. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. –Robert Frost

* Source: Business Insider – 101 Inspirational Quotes From Super Successful People