30 Famous Quotes To Inspire Success, Belief and Motivate You

Written on September 13, 2007 by Tezza

Thursday’s weekly guide to Personal Growth from 4EvaYoung.com

As you might have noticed I am a huge fan of reading quotes. They are often profusely scattered throughout my posts. I am a firm believer that a succinctly worded quote can do greater justice in communicating a topic than what I could put in words over a few paragraphs.

Here is a collection of my top 30 favorite quotes. Some of them you might be familiar with others hopefully will resonate with you and inspire you for your journey as they have with mine.
Success
“Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” - Arthur Rubinstein

“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.” - Zig Ziglar

“Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.” - Albert Einstein

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Albert Schweitzer

“To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

“I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” - Helen Keller

“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” - Henry David Thoreau

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Belief

“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

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.” - Buddha

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.” - Mark Twain

“I always try to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much trouble.” - Rudyard Kipling

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” - Blaise Pascal

“It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.” - Wally Amos

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them make them.” - George Bernard Shaw

Motivation
“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.” - Henry Drummond

“It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.” - Vince Lombardi

“Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up, he needs education to turn him around. - Jim Rohn
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” - Dr. Napoleon Hill

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

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Ryun

“Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.” - Richard Bach

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. ” - Will Rogers

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” - J.C. Penney

“Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” - Bruce Lee

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