Motivational Quotes by Famous Leaders & Thinkers

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

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

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

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

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

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

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. - John D. Rockefeller Jr.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. - Estée Lauder

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

Opportunities don't happen. You create them. - Chris Grosser

There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison

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

It always seems impossible until it's done. - Nelson Mandela

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. - Julie Andrews

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

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

Perseverance is a great element of success. - John Andrew Holmes

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. - Maya Angelou

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special training. - Robert F. Kennedy

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. - Steve Jobs

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel

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

Fortune favors the bold. - Virgil

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

Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca

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

Dream big and dare to fail. - Norman Vaughan

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. - Buddha

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis

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

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. - Zig Ziglar

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce

Chase your dreams until they catch you. - Aniekee Tochukwu

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

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it. - Marva Collins

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

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. - Tim Notke

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell

Dreams don’t work unless you do. - John C. Maxwell

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. - Confucius

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise. - Frank Ocean

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. - Jimmy Johnson

Sweat is the lubricant of success. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success. - Walter Brunell

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

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. - Alfred Pennyworth (Batman)

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

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. - John C. Maxwell

Mistakes are proof that you are trying. - Jennifer Lee

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

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

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

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C. Maxwell

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. - Ronald Reagan

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

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

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren Bennis

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

A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. - Unknown

Leadership is action, not position. - Donald H. McGannon

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Szent-Györgyi

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

Innovation comes from saying 'what if?' and 'why not?' - Diana Ross

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. - Mark Zuckerberg

Creativity is intelligence having fun. - Albert Einstein

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. - Peter Drucker

Change the world by being yourself. - Amy Poehler

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. - Guy Kawasaki

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. - Thomas Jefferson

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. - Peter T. Mcintyre

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. - Richard Kline

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence. - Blake Lively

Own who you are. - Heather Havrilesky