Greatest Motivational Quotes for Success & Growth

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

To be courageous means you have fears but still move forward.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Fear is inevitable. Courage is a choice.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Fortune favors the bold.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Self-belief is the first step to achieving anything worthwhile.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Excellence is never an accident. It's always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Fail fast, fail often, but always fail forward.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.

Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Dream big, because dreams have the power to change the world.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Dreams don't work unless you do.

Chase your dreams until they become reality.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Personal growth is the key to professional growth.

We are all works in progress. That’s why we’re called human beings, not human doings.

Do not wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.

The moment you commit to something, your subconscious begins to conspire to make it happen.

Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses and start turning them into strengths.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself beyond what you think is possible.

Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The pine knew growth would bring pain. And so it moved upward anyway.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.