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TOP 35 AS A MAN THINKETH QUOTES BY JAMES ALLEN
I was asked not too long ago what my favorite book was. It took me a few seconds to answer because I’ve read a decent number of books over the years. But after some serious consideration, and sputtering out two or three titles, I ultimately settled on ‘As a Man Thinketh’. As such, I’d like share a quick synopsis of the book, as well as the most powerful As Man Thinketh quotes I came across while reading it.
Why? Because no other book has helped me realize the power we wield to design and mold our lives to our making, as much as this book has. So, here we go.
As a Man Thinketh
‘As a Man Thinketh’ is by no means a new book. In fact, the book was originally published in 1903. But the age of the book is irrelevant, especially when one considers the value that can be extracted from the proper application of the many admonishments set forth within its pages.
The Author, James Allen also wrote 19 other books, but this book is the book that he has become most well known for. As such, this book was James Allen’s ultimate legacy.
‘As a Man Thinketh’ is a very short book. In fact, it is more a literary essay than a book. However, don’t let the size of the book fool you. I would venture to say that this is one of those few books where the potential impact it can have on your life is inversely related to the volume of pages contained within in it.
Some books have many pages, but say little, while others have few pages, but say much. This books is one of the few that fall within the latter.
The Hook
So why does this book pack such a punch? Well, for starters, each sentence portrays a strong air of authority and gravitas to it. You can tell, that what the author is communicating is something that he deeply believes. His message is seemingly matter of fact and suggestive in nature.
Now, whether the audience believes his statements as fact or not, remains for the audience to decide. But that is where the potential for life change resides within this book. It’s as if the author wants us to test out his ideas for ourselves, and when we take up the challenge, that is when we come to realize the efficacy behind his wise suggestions.
The Message
If this book has one point to make, it can be summed up in the following quote by James Allen, which is this: “They themselves are makers of themselves.” – James Allen
As I’ve gone through this book over the years, I’ve outlined and highlighted many sections of the book. And every now and then, I would do more than highlight sections I found extra valuable and useful. For those extra special sections I would add an asterix next to them.
So to give you some immediate value in reading this review, I am going to share those sections with you that I’ve enjoyed the most.
Here they are, the top 35 As a Man Thinketh Quotes:
MOST INSPIRING AS A MAN THINKETH QUOTES
1. “The alteration in your circumstances will be in exact ratio with your altered mental condition.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
2. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
3 “You will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
4. “Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
5. “Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose, the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
6. “Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
7. “A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
8. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
9. “The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, this you will BECOME.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
10. “Self-control is strength; right thought is mastery, calmness is power.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
11. “The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth – that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
12. “They themselves are makers of themselves.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
13. “Men do not attract that which they want, they attract that which they are.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
14. “Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
15. “Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
16. “The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
17. “Only he who is self-supporting is free, self-reliant, independent.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
18. “The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
19. “Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
20. “To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
21. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
22. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
23. “The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
24. “Circumstances does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
25. “You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
26 “A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
27. “Mind is the Master power that molds and makes, and man is mind, and evermore he takes. The tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: — He thinks in secret and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
28. “A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring forth.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
29. “A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of groveling thoughts and base desires.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
30. “Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
31. “Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
32. “A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
33. “Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
34. “They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, and troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route) to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power-evolving universe.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
35. “Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.” – James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed his collection of As a Man Thinketh Quotes. Of course, the real question is, Is As a Man Thinketh worth reading? Well, I’ve read this book so many times I’ve lost count. So, yes, the book is worth your time, and worth reading.
These days the book has become a resource to study, and something to come back to from time to time be reminded that we are responsible for our own happiness, our circumstances, and the outcomes we continue to get in both life and business.
It is a sobering message, but it’s one that has only lead to increasing good in my life. So, if you’re looking to shake things up in your life, give the book a read.
Till next time,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these As a Man Thinketh Quotes, then you’ll equally love these other thought related quotes by Napoleon Hill.
Achieving what we want in life is rarely a walk in the park. In fact, for most people it is a struggle. It’s a struggle that we either embrace or turn away from. And more often than not, those who choose to embrace the struggle turn to motivational quotes for the inspiration needed to surmount their challenges. In short, quotes motivate us, and there is science to back this up.[1] It is for this reason, that we decided to publish these 365 motivational quotes.
“Nurture Your Mind With Great Thoughts, For You Will Never Go Any Higher Than You Think.”
Our hope is that they will not only get you through the tough times, but help you navigate and surmount the daily challenges and discouragement that would keep you from the success you seek. So, if you’re ready to nurture your mind with 365 quotes for daily motivation, quotes that will push you every day of the week until your dreams and your reality become one, let’s get to it:
365 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR DAILY SUCCESS
1. “What great thing would you attempt, if you knew you could not fail.” – Robert H. Schuller
2. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban
3. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
4. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Wesley Snipes
5. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale
6. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
7. “Act as if what you do makes a difference.” IT DOES.” – William James
8. “Always take another step. If this is to no avail take another, and yet another. One step at a time is not too difficult.” – Og Mandino
9. “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.
10. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
11. “Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.” – Brian Tracy
12. “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman
13. “Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn’t find the guts to do.” – Seth Godin
14. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln
15. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – Babe Ruth
16. “Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.” – Anonymous
17. “The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.” – James Allen
19. “If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.” – Lao Tzu
20. “The key to success is failure.” – Michael Jordan
21. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
22. “Plough deep while sluggards sleep.” – Benjamin Franklin
23. “Work hard in silence and let success be your noise.” – Anonymous
24. “Don’t stop until you’re proud.” – Anonymous
25. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
26. “If it’s important, you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Ryan Blair
27. “Men of action are favored by the goddess of good luck.” – George S. Clason
28. “A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” – John Burroughs
29. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
30. “If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it.” – Claude M. Bristol
31. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
32. “Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.” – James Allen
33. “Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is, am I progressing?” – Robin Sharma
34. “There’s not a person on my team in 16 years that has consistently beat me to the ball every play. That ain’t got anything to do with talent, that’s just got everything to do with effort, and nothing else.” – Ray Lewis
35. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levonson
36. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as a punishment.
And that’s the difference.” – Lou Holtz
37. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Anonymous
38. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
39. “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” – Theodore Roosevelt
40. “In this world you only get what you grab for.” – Giovanni Boccaccio
41. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George A. Sheehan
42. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
43. “If you have everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
44. “Do the work. Everyone wants to be successful, but nobody wants to do the work.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
45. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
46. “Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
47. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
48. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
49. “All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.” – Anonymous
50. “Your dreams are on the other side of your grit.” – Anonymous
51. “Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
52. “Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.” – Henry Van Dyke
53. “What you exhibit outwardly, you are inwardly.” – Claude M. Bristol
54. “If you continue to thin the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” – Kevin Trudeau
55. “They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.” – Swami Venkatesananda
56. “Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, they are the things that don’t let you sleep.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
57. “I CAN is 100 times more important that IQ.” – Anonymous
58. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
59. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
60. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
61. Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
62. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Till your good is better and your better is best.'” – St. Jerome
63. “Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” – Zig Ziglar
64. “How long should you try? Until.” – Jim Rohn
65. “The view is better when it is earned.” – Anonymous
66. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
67. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
68. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton
69. “Surround yourself with people who are only going to lift you higher.” – Anonymous
70. “Comfort is the enemy of progress.” – P.T. Barnum
71. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
72. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
73. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
74. “Greatness is succeeding at what you intend to do.” – Dr. Joe Vitale
75. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
76. “Work your ass off. There is no magic pill.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
77. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
78. “Success is not for the lazy.” – Anonymous
79. “All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.” – Steven Spielberg
80. “If you don’t play to win, don’t play at all.” – Tom Brady
81. “You must tell yourself; “No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’M GOING TO MAKE IT!'” – Les Brown
82. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.” – Anonymous
83. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T.S. Eliot
84. “I hated ever minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
85. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw
86. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
87. “Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.” – John C. Maxwell
88. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
89. “The secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides
90. “It was desire that brought progress to the world.” – Claude M. Bristol
91. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
92. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
93. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
94. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
95. “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
96. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola
97. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
98. “Don’t you dare let their laughter extinguish your ambition.” – J.K. Rowling
99. “Continuous Effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
100. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
101. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
102. “In any given moment, we have two options: To step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
103. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
104. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
105. “You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.” – Muhammad Ali
106. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
107. “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.” – Anonymous
108. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” – Anonymous
109. “Always discover your vision and the rest will follow.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
110. “You have to think big to be big.” – Claude M. Bristol
111. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there
every single night.” – Michael Jordan
112. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing
the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
113. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
114. “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” – Jose Ortega y Gassett
115. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
116. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
117. “A person without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.” – Thomas Carlyle
118. “Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what’s given to you on a plate.” – Amy Winehouse
119. “To anyone who is struggling early in the morning or late at night in pursuit of your dream, struggles that many will never see, and to any leaders out there, who believe in someone who does not yet believe in themselves, keep going. Keep going, because WILL always finds a WAY.” – Tom Brady
120. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” – Muhammad Ali
121. “Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.” – Tony Robbins
122. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength
of the effort is the measure of the result.” – James Allen
123. “Most successful people are the most successful people because they’ve failed more than anyone else.” – Tony Robbins
124. “You deserve what your actions earned, or haven’t earned.” – M.J. Demarco
125. “If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.” – P.T. Barnum
126. “A lot of people say they want to be great, but they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness.” – Kobe Bryant
127. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition they overcame to reach their goals.” – D. Height
128. “There are simply no limits for a person who accepts no limits.” – Robin Sharma
129. “I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.” – Og Mandino
130. “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
131. “There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.” – Mark Burnett
132. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
133. “We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.” – Steven Pressfield
134. “I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
135. “One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.” – Hellen Keller
136. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
137. “Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill
138. “It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.” – Robert Greene
139. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” – Napoleon Hill
140. “To live is to learn, to strive is to become.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
141. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
142. “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.” – Thomas Jefferson
143. “The only man who doesn’t make mistakes is the man who never does anything.” – Theodore Roosevelt
144. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
145. “The devil whispers, “You can’t withstand the storm.” The Warrior replied, “I am the storm.” – Anonymous
146. “To win you’ve got to stay in the game.” – Claude M. Bristol
147. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki
148. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer
149. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life – and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
150. “Tough time don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
151. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
152. “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.” – Vince Lombardi
153. “Valor grows by daring; fear by holding back.” – Publilius Syrus
154. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
155. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.” – Earl Nightingale
156. “Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” – Mahatma Gandhi
157. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
158. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott
159. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
160. “If you want to have more, you must become more.” – Jim Rohn
161. “It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance,
sweeps away all obstacles.” – Claude M. Bristol
162. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
163. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
164. “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever
achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
165. “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest; we have to be more disciplined
than the rest.” – Warren Buffett
166. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If
you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and
get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
167. “People are rewarded in public for what they’ve practiced for years in private.” – Tony Robbins
168. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
169. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.” – John C. Maxwell
170. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
171. “I planned my success, I knew it was going to happen.” – Erykah Badu
172. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
173. “If you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip?” – Eminem
174. “Effort is grossly underrated.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
175. “I knew the one thing I might regret was not ever having tried.” – Jeff Bezos
176. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
177. “He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.” – Spartan Creed
178. “You can, end of story.” – Ray Lewis
179. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
180. “The harder you work, the harder it is for you to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi
181. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
182. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca
183. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
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184. “When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.” – Albert Einstein
185. “It’s never crowded along the extra mile.” – Wayne Dyer
186. “Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” – Lowell Thomas
187. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” – Theodore Roosevelt
188. “No one ever defeated a resolute will. Even death stands still before such a will.” – Claude M. Bristol
189. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
190. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
191. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not within it.” – Henry Ford
192. “Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.” – Robin Sharma
193. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
194. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
195. “Real lions like to hunt! They like the process just as much as they love the prize.” – Eric Thomas
196. “Inactivity is retrogression.” – John McDonald
197. “When the end comes for you, let if find you conquering a new mountain not sliding down an old one.” – Jim Rohn
198. “The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
199. “Fate loves the fearless.” – James Russell Lowell
200. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
201. “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” – Tacitus
202. “There are two mistakes one can make along the way to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
203. “What we do now echoes in eternity.” – Marcus Aurelius
204. “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the
heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls
205. “To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
206. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy
207. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” – Brandon Sanderson
208. “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
209. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
210. “Aim for the highest.” – Andrew Carnegie
211. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Elenor Roosevelt
212. “You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland
213. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil
214. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
215. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells
216. “Set you goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
217. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
218. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
219. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
220. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.
221. “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” – Dave Weinbaum
222. “Persistence. The only thing that will piss-off failure enough for it to get the fu** out of the way of your success. PERSIST.” – The Ultimate Warrior
223. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
224. “A little more persistence a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless
failure may turn into a glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
225. “If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” – Michael Jordan
226. “Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Dan Kennedy
227. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
228. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o
229. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Opra Winfrey
230. “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses defeat.” – Anonymous
231. “A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” – Anonymous
232. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar
233. “If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success.” – Richard Branson
234. “The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.” – James Clear
235. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
236. “What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
237. “Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” – Theodore Roosevelt
238. “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of
the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
239. “Success in anything will always come down to this: Focus & Effort, and
we control both of them.” – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
240. “I don’t count my sit-ups, I only start counting when it starts hurting, when
I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, cause that’s when it really counts.” – Muhammad Ali
241. “It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the
arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.” – Harvey Mackay
242. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing
heart.” – R.G. Ingersoll
243. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
244. “He who seeks rest finds boredom….He who seeks work finds rest.” – Anonymous
245. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
246. “The man who succeeds is a man who has withstood the tests of time, trials,
and has made every effort count.” – Hermann J. Steinherr
247. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale
248. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.” – Les Brown
249. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes
an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” – Jesse Owens
250. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
251. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
252. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers
253. “To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.” – Anna Pavlova
254. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins – not through strength, but through persistence.” – Buddha
255. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” – Winston Churchill
256. “A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.” – Georges Clemenceau
257. “Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” – David McCullough Jr.
258. “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
259. “Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.” – Napoleon Hill
260. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
261. “Anything is possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J.K. Rowling
262. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
263. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” – Bertrand Russell
264. “Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
265. “What you believe yourself to be, you are.” – Claude M. Bristol
266. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
267. “To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
268. “Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.” – Karl Wallenda
269. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – T. Scott Mcleod
270. “Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” – Charles de Gaul
271. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer
272. “Be Fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Anonymous
273. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
274. “The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.” – Dr. Idel Dreimer
275. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
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276. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
277. “To be successful we must do things that unsuccessful people do not want
to do. Those things require levels of courage.” – R. Harpe
278. “He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
279. “The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift that a human being could offer to others.” – Ayn Rand
280. “Where I excel, is ridiculous, sickening, work-ethic!” – Will Smith
281. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot
282. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot: But make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague
283. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible.” – Audrey Hepburn
284. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
285. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
286. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
287. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decision.” – Stephen Covey
288. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
289. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
290. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
291. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
292. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
293. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
294. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
295. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
296. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
297. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
298. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
299. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
300. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
301. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
302. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
303. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker
304. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
305. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
306. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
307. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
308. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
309. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don’t give up.” – Chuck Yeager
310. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
311. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
312. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Harry F. Banks
313. “The world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
314. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” – Dalai Lama
315. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
317. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
316. “Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.” – Anonymous
318. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
319. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be
done at all.” – Peter Drucker
320. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
321. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in” – Bill Bradley
322. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
323. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
324. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
325. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you
haven’t planted.” – David Bly
326. “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” – Anonymous
327. “I am grinding while your sleeping.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
328. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in
life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
329. “Criticism is the price of Ambition.” – Robin Sharma
330. “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
331. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Bo Bennett
332. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
333. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard
work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas Edison
334. “Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.” – Baltasar Gracian
335. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
336. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
337. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho
338. “You can never achieve more than you aspire to.” – Al Ries
339. “Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee
340. “Every master was once a disaster.” – T. Harv Eker
341. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” – Theodore Roosevelt
342. “Nothing is worth more than this day.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
343. “When people don’t believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.” – Peirce Brosnan
344. “Ordinary is easy. Extra-ordinary is what will separate you from the crowd.” – Darren Hardy
345. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar
346. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
347. “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
348. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
349. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” – Neil Armstrong
350. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcom Forbes
351. “Paralyze resistance with persistence.” – Woody Hayes
352. “Winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardi
353. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” – Tobias Wolff
354. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
355. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
356. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” – Japanese Proverb
357. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not:
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.” – Calvin Coolidge
358. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billy Jean King
359. “As long as there’s breath in You–Persist! – Bernard Kelvin Clive
360. “Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who just won’t quit.” – Rudy
361. “Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Ray Kroc
362. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
363. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
364. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Henry Ford
365. “What most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible
power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of
discouragement.” – Napoleon Hill
Bonus Motivational Quote
Bonus Quote: Sometimes, you just need to end things with a bang. And we believe, this last of the 365 motivational quotes for success is that bang. So, heed the late great Steve Job’s wisdom as the grand finale of these 365 quotes:
“If You Haven’t Found It Yet, Keep Looking.”
– steve jobs –
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Final Thoughts on These 365 Motivational Quotes
There you have it, the best of the best daily motivational quotes for success. We’ve done our fair share of research to publish what amounts to the best daily motivational quotes on the web, and we sincerely believe this list is it. Please consider sharing it with someone who you think they can help, and bookmarking it so you can use the motivation when you need it most.
“People Often Say That Motivation Doesn’t Last. Well, Neither Does Bathing, That’s Why We Recommend It Daily.”
– Zig Ziglar –
With that being said, we hope you found value in these quotes, and more importantly, we hope they both inspire and motivate you to keep pressing forward towards your dreams and goals.
Until you reach your aims,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these 365 motivational quotes for success, then you’ll love these extremely inspiring quotes to help you stay fired up to keep chasing your dreams.
There is no shortage of stories about people rising from poverty to success. These stories have grown in number, especially in the past century. And, they’ll continue to grow in number, so long as they keep inspiring everyday people from all walks of life to strive for their dreams. So, to help fan those flames of achievement, ambition, and the promise of a better future for you and others, we’ve rounded up the most inspiring quotes about poverty to success.
“When There Is Nothing, There Is The Possibility Of Everything.”
Our hope is that these poverty to success quotes will inspire, motivate, and give you hope, that no matter where you come from, or how rough your start, creating a successful life for yourself is possible.
So, if you are ready for some encouraging words to help you believe that going from rags to riches is possible for you, then let’s dive in:
BEST QUOTES ABOUT POVERTY TO SUCCESS
1. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale
2. “Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.” – Jimmy Dean
3. “Let us be done with thinking of poverty as a virtue. It is a common vice. If you have been living in financial lack and limitation, you have literally been living in vice. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity. But you need not continue living in financial vice. There is a way out.” – Catherine Ponder
4. “Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.” – Bradford Merrill
5. “Where determination is, the way can be found. – George S. Clason
6. “Poverty and adversity have produced many of the most successful people in the world.” – Dr. T.P. Chia
7. “The first step is clearly defining exactly what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it.” – Halle Berry
8. “Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour, and day.” – Bryant McGill
9. “Nobody is born poor and empty. Each of us have a gift. Talent or intelligence, how we use it to lift our lives, spells our success or failure.” – Ymatruz
10. “It always seems impossible, until its done.” – Nelson Mandela
11. “You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used throughout history, to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.” – Brian Tracy
12. “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” – Napoleon Hill
13. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day
14. “Diligence produces success and riches. Laziness creates poverty and failure.” – Dr. T. P. Chia
15. “Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.” – Paul Collier
16. “The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.” – Darren Hardy
17. “Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.” – James Arthur Ray
18. “Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.” – Napoleon Hill
19. “Charity is no solution to poverty.” – Muhamad Yunus
20. “It’s not about your resources, it’s about your resourcefulness.” – Tony Robbins
21. “People ought to be as sensible on the subject of Money Getting as on any other subject. Like causes produce like effects. You cannot accumulate a fortune by taking the road that leads to poverty.” – P.T. Barnum
22. “Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class, and the poor” – Robert Kiyosaki
23. “We did live in dire poverty. And one of the things that I hated was poverty. Some people hate spiders. Some people hate snakes. I hated poverty. I couldn’t stand it.” – Ben Carson
24. “Get what you can, and what you get hold, Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.” – Benjamin Franklin
25. “There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance.” – Buddha
26. “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” – Frank McCourt
27. “Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient.” – Milton Berle
28. “Poor choices are the leading cause of poorness” – M.J. Demarco
29. “What lies behind us and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
31. “Information without execution is poverty.” – Tony Robbins
32. “The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. – Adam Smith
33. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C.S. Lewis
34. “Poverty is not a hinderance to success.” – Philippine Proverb
35. “Poverty is not a circumstance, it’s an attitude.” – Rita Gonzalez
Bonus Poverty to Success Quote
Bonus: Here’s the last and final of these poor background quotes. It’s one of our favorites, and we believe it contains the most potential inspiration for increase aspirations. Here it is:
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
– abraham lincoln –
Final Thoughts
Remember, despite the high life that most successful people seem to be living today, most of them had to face their fare share of struggle and hardship. They had to pay a price for the success they now enjoy. But the great news is, they’ve shown there is a recipe that anyone can follow.
Sure, the end result won’t be exactly the same for everyone. But, it will be similar in that it will get you out of poverty and on track to a more successful life. With that being said, we hope these poverty to success quotes have you doubting your doubts, and eager to pursue the success you deserve and can achieve.
Till next time,
STRIVE
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Life is hard, this is a fact. Sure, there are a rare few who have been fortunate enough to win the lottery of life, whereby every need, want, and wish has been given to them. But, these people are the exception, not the rule. The rule of life is strife, struggle, challenges, and hardship. It’s just the way it is, life is hard.
The great news is, the sooner a person comes to terms with this fact, and chooses to be the type of person who is determined to battle on anyway, life almost magically, become less hard. As such, we’ve pulled together this list of powerful life is hard quotes to help you come to this life-altering conclusion.
So, if you’re ready for some inspiring life is hard quote to help you embrace the struggle and get through those hard times, then let’s dive right in:
BEST LIFE IS HARD QUOTES FOR TOUGH TIMES
1. “Life is hard, but so very beautiful.” – Abraham Lincoln
2. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
3. “You tell me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
4. “Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” – David Gerrold
5. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
6. “Life is hard. And it isn’t fair. And it really hurts like hell sometimes. But if you focus on what is within your power to change for the better, you can. And you will.” – Zero Dean
7. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington
8. “If you want life to become easy, you have to become hard.” – Atlas Rowe
9. “Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” – Zahid Abas
10. “Do what is easy, and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.” – Les Brown
11. “Embrace the struggle, and let it make you stronger. It won’t last forever.” – Tony Gaskins
12. “Life is hard, so become hard, and stay hard.” – Anonymous
13. “The obstacle is the opportunity if you are willing to see it that way. Stay hard!” – David Goggins
14. “Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry
15. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
16. “There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.” – Idowu Koyenikan
17. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” – Roy T. Bennett
18. “Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to the light.” – John Milton
19. “The discipline of suffering, of great suffering — do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
20. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” – Goethe
21. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost
22. “Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.” – Aidan Quinn
23. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Mahatma Gandhi
24. “Life is tough. So get tougher.” – Anonymous
25. “Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.” – Marcus Aurelius
26. “The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.” – Robin Sharma
27. “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you got to be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.” – Rocky Balboa
28. “Every adversity, every failure and heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
29. “You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.” – Mel Robbins
30. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
31. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
32. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
33. “Adjustments are necessary along the way because life isn’t always rosy, but it is always worth living.” – Nick Vujicic
34. “There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.” – Alexandre Dumas
35. “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” – Paulo Coelho
36. “Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths — it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.” – M. Scott Peck
37. “We must accept infinite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
38. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
39. “The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
40. “Life is hard, but not impossible.” – Anonymous
41. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
42. “Whatever the struggle, continue the climb. It may only be one step to the summit.” – Diane Westlake
43. “The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstances – to add a deeper meaning to his life.” – Victor Frankl
44. “Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” – Iain Duncan Smith
45. “Life’s challenges are not suppose to paralyze you; they’re suppose to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
46. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself.” – Lucille Ball
47. “When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.” – Anonymous
48. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
49. “Embrace life’s challenges and let it transform you into the best version of yourself.” – Hayley Evans
50. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
51. “Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.” – Dizzee Rascal
52. “Life is hard, but we make it much harder.” – Ryan Holiday
53. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
54. “In life… all good things come hard. But wisdom is the hardest to come by.” – Lucille Ball
55. “You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.” – Dwayne Johnson
56. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
57. “There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.” – Albert Einstein
58. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
59. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”
– Bob Marley
Bonus Life Is Hard Quote
Bonus: Alright, here is our last, but favorite out of this collection of life is hard quotes. We added it as bonus, because we believe it holds the secret ingredient for overriding the fact that life is hard. Enjoy!
“Things Turn Out Best For The People Who Make The Best Of The Way Things Turn Out.”
– john wooden –
Related: Quotes For Tough Times
FINAL THOUGHTS
Great job making it to the end of our life is hard quotes! We don’t doubt that scouring through this extensive list took a fair amount of effort on your part, so big kudos to you.
Also, if you enjoyed these life is hard quotes, we have a hunch you’ll enjoy these powerful quotes for strengthening your mindset and overcoming setbacks:
That said, we hope you found at least a handful of quotes to help you embrace whatever struggle or hardship you may be experiencing in your life at the moment. Be sure to come back anytime you need a few inspiring words when life gets hard.
Till then,
STRIVE
If you’re searching for some of the best alpha male quotes, then this page is for you. However, before we dive into the quotes, know this: being an alpha male is more than just having a certain personality type; it’s a mode of being.
Many people, especially in these more modern times, would describe an Alpha Male as someone who is arrogant, insensitive, selfish, and highly competitive. Indeed, it appears as though the concept of the Alpha Male has received a bad rap as of late. But, the Alpha Male is still, and will very likely always be highly valued and worthy of pursuit. In fact, according to Harvard Business Review, 70% of all senior executives are Alpha Males.[1]
“Lesser Men Believe In Luck Or In Circumstance, But The Alpha Male Believes In Cause And Effect.”
That said, the dictionary describes an Alpha Male as a male who has the highest rank in a dominance hierarchy, as well as a man who is dominate, powerful, and assertive. But an Alpha Male is also a man who is strong and successful, it’s a man who takes charge, leads, works hard, and is driven to achieve his potential. In short, the Alpha Male is a man who strives.
So, to highlight the Alpha Male, and that strong personality trait that is driven to dream big, work hard, and achieve the impossible, we decided to publish this powerful collection of inspiring Alpha Male quotes. May they encourage you to unleash your inner Alpha Male today!
BEST ALPHA MALE QUOTES
This first section includes a collection of our handpicked quotes from Alpha Males as well as popular Alpha Male sayings. These are the best Alpha Male quotes as they are the best at putting the Alpha in Alpha male. In short, they are our top 10 Alpha Male quotes. So, enjoy:
1. “A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep.” – Alpha Male
2. “The alpha male is always willing to walk away.” – Roosh V
3. “When you are wrong, admit it. When you are right, be quiet.” – Anonymous
4. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!” – Theodore Roosevelt
5. “The King eats first.” – Sean Walen
6. “Losing is losing, there aren’t different degrees of losing. You either win a championship or you’re sh**. It’s very black & white to me.” – Kobe Bryant
7. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Find a man who has a heart of poet, the fearlessness of a warrior, and the will of a conqueror, and there you will find your Alpha Male.” – Atlas Rowe
9. “If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
10. “I am not here for no easy fights.” – Tyson Fury
Alpha Sayings From Notable Alpha Males
This next batch of Alpha Male quotes is a list of quotes from famous individuals that best exemplifies the spirit of the Alpha Male.
11. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.” – Jocko Willink
12. “If nobody hates you, nobody knows you.” – Grant Cardone
13. “A harmless man is not a good man. A good man, is a very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control.” – Jordan Peterson
14. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” – Elon Musk
15. “If you don’t play to win, don’t play at all.” – Tom Brady
16. “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
” – Napoleon Bonaparte
17. “Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.” – Vince Lombardi
18. “In my mind, not just this year, always, I am always the best. And I am always going to say that.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
19. “I don’t stop when I’m tired, I stop when I’m done.” – David Goggins
20. “Be obsessed or be average.” – Grant Cardone
21. “Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.” – Jocko Willink
23. “Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.” – Joe Rogan
24. “I was always very intense. As a kid already I was very intense, and I was very hungry. I always wanted to be the best, I always to be number one, I always wanted to get to the top. I never believed in just getting by.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
25. “Don’t be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.” – Mike Tyson
26. “We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.” – Theodore Roosevelt
27. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale
28. “Blood, sweat, & respect. The first two you give. Last one you earn.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
29. “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy
30. “[There’s] only one king in the jungle. Hey, you cannot be interim king, only one king.” – Khabib Nurmagomedov
Most Inspiring Alpha Male Quotes
This last batch of quotes consists of some of the most inspiring Alpha Male quotes we’ve come across. Some of the quotes provide useful insightfulness and clarity on what it means to be Alpha, while others effectively exemplify the character and essence of the Alpha Male.
31. “Hard times don’t last, but hard men do.” – Victor Pride
32. “If you hate laziness, love taking action, and respect a worthy opponent, you may be an Alpha Male” – Atlas Rowe
33. “I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or really incapacitated.” – Elon Musk
34. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Do the work. Quit your whining, and complaining. Make yourself your own mental point of origin.” – Rich Cooper
35. “I love to win.” – Dana White
36. “An alpha male’s worst-enemy is that of mediocrity and low expectations.” – Nathan Lee Morales
37. “Pain precedes strength.” – Sean Walen
38. “The average man doesn’t try very hard. So if you try very hard, it’s impossible to be average.” – Andrew Tate
39. “I wish I were a little more Beta said no Alpha Male ever!” – Atlas Rowe
40. “Lower your standards for no one.” – Alpha Quote
41. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” – Elon Musk
42. “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” – Teddy Roosevelt
43. “Weak and overwhelmed individuals respond to other’s success by attacking it.” – Grant Cardone
44. “Greatness and madness are next door neighbors and they often borrow each other’s sugar.” – Joe Rogan
45. “Most alpha males protect the underdog, keep the peace, and reassure those who are distressed.” – Frans de Waal
46. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
47. “Alpha males dream big, work hard, and strive relentlessly to achieve the impossible.” – The Strive
48. “The alpha male does what the other lions fail to do. He reminds himself time and again that he is the alpha, and second to none.” – Dhanush Bangera
49. “Real lions like to hunt. They love the process just as much as they love the prize.” – Eric Thomas
50. “There’s no growth in comfort.” – Andy Elliott
51. “Men who aren’t enslaved by their vices and desires are focused men. And focused men are the most powerful men.” – Bedros Keuilian
52. “Most people today are snowflakes. They melt under pressure.” – Dan Peña
53. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali
54. “An excuse is nothing more than a well planned lie.” – Dan Lok
55. “It’s so easy to be great these days, because everyone else is so weak.” – David Goggins
56. “If nobody will help you do it, do it alone.” – Michael Jordan
57. “The world rewards results, period.” – Andy Frisella
Bonus Alpha Quote
Bonus: Here it is, our last and final Alpha Male quote. We believe it sums up the highest essence of the Alpha Male.
“The Strongest Man In The World Is He Who Stands Alone.”
– Henrik Ibsen –
Final Thoughts
Alright, there you have it, the best of the best when it comes to Alpha Male quotes. We are all about pursuing excellence and reaching for the highest and best that life has to offer here at the strive.
Therefore, we hope these alpha quotes inspire you to reach for the highest and best within you.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these Alpha Male quotes then you’ll really appreciate these great quotes on ambition and these powerful warrior quotes.
Following your heart is a piece of advice that is slightly contentious these days. Some well meaning “experts” say that following your passion is dangerous, and that you should instead follow the money, be realistic, play it safe etc.. However, all one has to do is observe the success stories of a handful of notable achievers, or peak behind the reasons of the Great Resignation, and it becomes clear that following your heart is extremely important. And it is for this reason, that we feel compelled to publish this collection of Follow Your Heart Quotes.
Our hope is that these quotes will give you more insight on what it means to follow your heart and why you should follow yours. But more importantly, we hope the quotes provide you with the encouragement and inspiration you’ve been seeking out to more readily trust your instincts and following your heart’s true calling.
That said, if you’re ready for some of the most inspirational follow your heart quotes, let’s dive right in:
BEST FOLLOW YOUR HEART QUOTES
1. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling, everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
3. “Look for the job that you would want to hold if you didn’t need a job. You’re probably only going to live once.” – Warren Buffett
4. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
5. “Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart.” – Paula Abdul
6. “You can’t do passion halfway. Living your passion means you’re all in. You trust your heart and trust your gut wherever that takes you.” – Joe Plumeri
7. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
8. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery
9. “Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.” – Oprah Winfrey
10. “Only the strong and the best get to live their heart song.” – Robin Sharma
11. “The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.” – Anonymous
12. “Follow your heart but take your brain with you.” – Alfred Adler
13. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” – Cicero
14. “If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.” – Erin Brockovich
15. “If you follow your heart you don’t need to follow anyone.” – Deepti Raghav
16. “Follow your heart and you’ll never get lost.” – Anonymous
17. “20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
18. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
19. “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Goethe
20. “Follow your heart, it knows the way.” – Anonymous
21. “There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart… pursue those.” – Anonymous
22. “Passion and purpose scale, always have and always will.” – Elon Musk
23. “There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.” – Karol G.
24. “Follow your heart, but check it with your head.” – Steve Jobs
25. “In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.” – Robert Greene
26. “Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” – Lesley Ann Warren
27. “May you follow your dreams and always believe in yourself. Keep your eyes on the stars and hope in your heart.” – Anonymous
28. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” – Roy T. Benett
29. “In the conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart.” – Swami
30. “Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” – Paulo Coelho
31. “Only do what your heart tells you.” – Princess Diana
32. “‘It’s impossible,’ said pride. ‘It’s risky,’ said experience. ‘It’s pointless,’ said reason. ‘Give it a try,’ whispered the heart.” – Uknown
33. “Following your heart does not mean things will be easy, but they will be worth it.” – Nathan Lee Morales
34. “Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.” – Sylvester Stallone
35. “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael
36. “Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. “The greatest risk you’ll ever face in your life is riskless living.” – Robin Sharma
38. “The world behaves differently when I take action to after what I want.” – Price Pritchett
39. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” – Rumi
40. “Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.” – Tony Robbins
41. “What if you decided to do the most outrageous, most exciting thing you ever dared fantasize about, regardless of what anyone, including your terrified self, thought? THAT would be living.” – Jen Sincero
42. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye
43. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
44. “Always follow your heart. Sometimes it’s gonna hurt — but you’re going to be fine.” – Jennifer Lopez
45. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “Don’t follow a trend. Follow your heart.” – Krist Novoselic
47. “Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
48. “I stayed true to my dreams, and eventually they came true.” – Kevin Hart
Related: 10 Reasons To Follow Your Dreams
49. “There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
50. “There are no rules. Just follow your heart.” – Robin Williams
51. “You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.” – Robert Greene
52. “Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.” – Myles Munroe
53. “I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” – Rocky Balboa
54. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” – Buddha
55. “Prosperity starts in one’s heart not their pocket.” – Ricky Maye
56. “Allow yourself to experience whatever your heart desires as if this is your one and only chance to take the ride of your life.” – Jen Sincero
57. “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.” – Paulo Coelho
58. “I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.” – Rihanna
59. “Follow your heart and go with the flow.” – Kunal Karan Kapoor
60. “Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart.” – James Allen
61. “The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep. You become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart. The roar of freedom.” – Osho
62. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
63. “The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.” – Orison Swett Marden
64. “Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.” – Elizabeth Taylor
65. “If with all your heart, that is to say, if with the full complement of your personality, you reach out creatively toward your heart’s desire, your reach will not be in vain.” – Norman Vincent Peale
66. “Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist, following your heart achieves a completed you.” – Ray Davis
67. “The more you trust your intuition the more empowered you become, the stronger you become and the happier you become.” – Gisele Bundchen
68. “Follow your heart and listen when it speaks to you.” – Susanna Tamaro
69. “I am here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what your told your suppose to do.” – J. Cole
70. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” – Princess Diana
71. “Trite as it sounds, follow your heart. Persevere. And if you follow your heart and persevere, it will pay off.” – Mike Portnoy
72. “Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.” – Jennifer Aniston
73. “Follow your heart. Purpose will reveal itself to you only while walking your own path.” – Brendon Burchard
74. “At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu
75. “Only you know what’s inside of you. Only you know what you can accomplish… What you’re capable of, your dreams, your desires, your wants and your ability, you only know. Nobody else knows. Whatever you feel in your heart and in your gut, you should follow that.” – Jennifer Lopez
76. “Follow your intuition.” – Steven Spielberg
77. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
78. “My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn’t do. I’ve always listed to ’em, believed in what they said. I don’t wanna do that anymore.” – Rudy
79. “Do not ignore the passion that burns in you. Spend time to discover your gift.” – Steve Harvey
80. “I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who’s regretted following their heart.” – Marie Forleo
81. “If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success.” – Richard Branson
82. “Listen to your heart. It knows all things.” – Paulo Coelho
83. “True desire in the heart for anything good, is God’s proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it’s yours already.” – Denzel Washington
84. “If you follow your dreams, it means you follow your heart and if you follow your heart I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Celine Dion
85. “Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart no matter what.” – Jack Canfield
86. “You do have to follow your heart, otherwise your living a false life.” – Eric Mabius
87. “Follow your heart, you only live once.” – Atlas Rowe
88. “When you follow your heart, you always win and if feels so good.” – Nelly Furtado
89. “Follow your own passion — not your parents’, not your teachers’ — yours.” – Robert Ballard
90. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
91. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hid the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg
92. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
93. “A great leaders courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, no position.” – John C. Maxwell
94. “No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.” – Jim Morrison
95. “No matter what yo udo in life, always put your heart into it. Live your life without regret.” – Anonymous
96. “Your heart is free… find the courage to follow it.” – Anonymous
97. “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sydney J. Harris
98. “It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.” – Randy Pausch
99. “The rest of the world may follow the rules, but I must follow my heart.” – Ernesto de la Cruz
100. “Let your heart guide you… it whispers, so listen closely.” – Walt Disney
Bonus Follow Your Heart Quote
Bonus: Alright, here is one of our favorite quotes about following your heart. We added it as bonus, because we stand behind it, and because we believe it captures best, the reason why everyone should follow their heart. Enjoy!
“Listen To Your Heart. This World Wasn’t Built By People With Small Vision And Minor Thoughts. It Was Built By The Misfits, Eccentrics And Oddballs Who Had The Courage To Passionately Follow The Voice Of Their Dreams.”
– robin sharma –
Related: Live Life To The Fullest Quotes
FINAL THOUGHTS
Great job making it to the end of these follow your heart quotes. We hope you found at least a few of them uplifting and encouraging. If you know of a friend who you think could use a little reminder to trust the direction their heart is leading them, please share our page with them.
That said, thanks for stopping by and best wishes as you embark on your heart’s journey.
Till then,
STRIVE
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One of the key ingredients to achieving success and winning in life, is effort. In fact, it may be the one sole ingredient to success that each human alive has the ability to control. Which is why we’ve dedicated this page specifically to effort quotes.
“Effort is the Key to Unlocking Our Potential.”
From most of our research (and life experiences) we’ve observed that the amount of effort and intensity one applies to a given task, goal, or vision; directly impacts the quality and swiftness of that goal’s completion. Without a doubt, effort is a critical factor in goal achievement. But more importantly, effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
As such we want to help as many people as possible embrace such a philosophy by sharing some of the most powerful quotes on effort we could find. Please know, that these are the best of the best effort quotes you’ll find.
There’s no doubt these effort quotes will serve as a reliable reminder of effort’s role in your success. In addition, they will help encourage you to unleash your untapped levels of effort. And when that happens you will begin unlocking your potential and a bit more success in the process.
So without further ado, here is your new reliable list of the 100 most motivating effort quotes available. Let them motivate you so you can go forth and unleash your potential!
EFFORT QUOTES TO HELP YOU UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL
1. “The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2. “For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn
3. “I am grinding while your sleeping.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
4. Plough deep while sluggards sleep.” – Benjamin Franklin
5. “All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.” – Anonymous
6. “The only thing that has kept me around is my effort.” – Ray Lewis
7. “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” – José Ortega y Gassett
8. “There’s not a person on my team in 16 years that has consistently beat me to the ball every play. That ain’t got nothing to do with talent, That’s just got everything to do with effort, and nothing else.” – Ray Lewis
9. “Ideas don’t work for people unwilling to do the work.” – Robin Sharma
10. “Effort is grossly underrated.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
11. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
12. “A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.” – Muriel Strode
13. “All I ever knew, was that effort would get me seen on tape, effort would get me noticed to get to the league, effort would one day take care of my mom and my kids. Effort, which is between you and you. Nobody else can give you effort. Effort is what is inside” – Ray Lewis
14. “If a man is called a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. “You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.” – Anonymous
16. “Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
17. “They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.” – Swami Venkatesananda
18. “An industrious dunce is often more successful in life than his learned neighbor.” – James Lendall Basford
19. “I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ” – Anonymous
20. “Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
21. “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” – Dave Weinbaum
22. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” – Larry Bird
23. “Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” – Zig Ziglar
24. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” George Bernard Shaw
25. “Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.” – Pat Riley
26. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt
27. “About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.” – Gloria Pitzer
28. “Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.” – Anonymous
29. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T.S. Eliot
30. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
31. “Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men and women who kept on working.” – Anonymous
32. “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
33. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola
34. “Continuous Effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
35. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
36. “The view is better when it is earned.” – Anonymous
37. “Put in 5% more effort than “there’s only so much I can do” and you’ll be way ahead of the game.” – Terri Guillemets
38. “Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.” – Heywood Hale Broun
39. “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown
40. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
41. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
42. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
43. “There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.” – Mark Burnett
44. “Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
45. “The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
46. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.” – James Allen
47. “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.” – Ann Landers
48. “The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” – Anonymous
49. “The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.” – Dr. Idel Dreimer
50. “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman
Temperature Check on These Quotes About Effort
One of the things we love most about quotes, is their ability to inspire, uplift, and encourage. And in the case of these effort quotes, they also have the ability to energize. If you’ve gotten to this point and have started to feel a bit charged up, then keep reading, because it means the quotes are working.
After you read the next 50 quotes on effort, don’t be surprised if you feel the urge fire up a pot of coffee and start hatching up plans to take over the world!
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51. “The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar
52. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” – Anonymous
53. “Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” – Sidney J. Phillips
54. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” – Napoleon Hill
55. “The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.” – Colin Powell
56. “Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood, and tears and effort in the gym every day.” – Gabby Douglas
57. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer
58. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus
59. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” – Michael Jordan
60. “Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.” – John C. Maxwell
61. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden
62. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
63. “Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” – Mahatma Gandhi
64. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi
65. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” – Denis Waitley
66. “You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.” – Paulo Coelho
67. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill
68. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.” – Les Brown
69. “It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.” – Claude M. Bristol
70. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
71. “It doesn’t matter if you lose, it matters if you don’t try.” – Unknown
72. “The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands to his full stature.” – Arnold Bennett
73. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
74. “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa
76. “I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
77. “Each man is the smith of his own fortune.” – Appius Claudius
78. “A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.” – George S. Patton
79. “Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” – Vince Lombardi
80. “The one thing that matters is the effort.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
81. “The man who succeeds is a man who has withstood the tests of time, trials, and has made every effort count.” – Hermann J. Steinherr
82. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ― Earl Nightingale
83. “People are rewarded in public for what they’ve practiced for years in private.” – Anthony Robbins
84. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
86. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca
87. “He who seeks rest finds boredom….He who seeks work finds rest.” – Anonymous
88. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale
89. “Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” – Lowell Thomas
90. “There is no substitute for work.” – Vince Lombardi
91.“Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
92. “Confidence is not something that comes out of nowhere. It is the result of months and years of practice, constant work, effort, and determination.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
93. “A little more persistence a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
94. “As one makes an impartial study of successful people, one is drawn to inevitable conclusion that persistence, concentration of effort and definiteness of purpose are the major sources of their achievements.” – Napoleon Hill
95. “One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.” – John Wanamaker
96. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
97. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” – Vince Lombardi
98. “If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” – Michael Jordan
99. “Success in anything will always come down to this: Focus & Effort, and we control both of them.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
100. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
101. “Very few people are really capable of sustained effort, and that’s the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.” – James McDonald
102. “Effort is the route available to the underdog, I may not be able to outspend you, but I can outwork you.” – Malcolm Gladwell
103. “Everything gets easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.” – Tim Grover
104. “Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.” – Mark Cuban
105. “Make every effort matter, and always make the following effort better than the last one.” – Hermann J. Steinherr
106. “No matter what you ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.” – Carol Dweck
107. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
108. “It takes hard work to make it to the top. It takes twice the effort to stay at the top.” – Patrick Bet-David
109. “Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.” – Angela Duckworth
110. “To double your gains you must triple your effort.” – Anonymous
Bonus Effort Quote
Bonus: Here’s our last and final effort quote. We set this one aside because we believe it’s powerful and says a lot a bout what it takes to succeed, namely, that you just have to be willing to put in the effort. Enjoy.
“Do The Work. Everyone Wants To Be Successful, But Nobody Wants To Do The Work.”
– gary vaynerchuck –
Final Thoughts on These Effort Quotes
Alright, you made it through the internet’s most inspiring collection of effort quotes. Hopefully these quotes got you fired up, and ready to go the extra mile in everything you do.
It’s all about effort friends. We all have the ability to dial it up, or dial it down in our lives. We can choose to try valiantly to accomplish, or we can choose to just go through the motions. The choice is ours.
That said, we must never forget that we all have the ability to win. Despite what the world tries to tell you, putting in a little more effort and winning more that normal is an option that is available to us all. We are in complete control of how much winning we get to experience in this life through effort.
So, use these powerful effort quotes as a resource to help you live with more intensity. Let them encourage and support you in all your efforts towards reaching your potential, maximizing your achievements, and creating your own story of success.
Till you reach those aims,
STRIVE
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Wealth typically measures the total value of someone’s assets. Thus, most people see it as the accumulation of scarce resources. However, many people also consider wealth as possessing something that has an abundance of value or meaning, like a lifestyle, state of mind, or a good reputation. In either case, both are worthy of pursuit. As such, we’ve pulled together this inspiring collection of wealth quotes.
Our hope is that these quotes will inspire and guide you on your way to finding more wealth, regardless of the type you seek. So, if you’re ready to experience some of the most inspirational wealth quotes of all-time, let’s dive right in:
BEST WEALTH QUOTES OF ALL TIME
1. “If you want to become wealthy, then you have to find out what the top 5% of people do financially and do the same thing.” – Myron Golden
2. “Wealth the comes quickly goeth the same way. Wealth that stayeth to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.” – George S. Clason
3. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.” – Benjamin Franklin
4. “Wealth is more often the result of hard work, perseverance, and most of all self-discipline.” – Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D
5. “The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.” – John Henry Jowett
6. “Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly begger.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “When your money makes more than you do, you are officially wealthy.” – Dave Ramsey
8. “I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond, that character—not wealth or power or position—is of supreme worth.” – John D. Rockefeller
9. “Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have had the ability and energy to produce it.” – Andrew Carnegie
10. “Wealth is a process, not an event.” – M.J. Demarco
11. “Wealth is good when there is no guilt attached.” – Jesus Sirach
12. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock
13. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” – Miguel de Cervantes
14. “All wealth is a product of labor” – John Locke
15. “If you want to get rich, think of saving as earning.” – Andrew Carnegie
16. “All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.” – Brian Tracy
17. “What determines your wealth is not how much you make but how much you keep of what you make.” – David Bach
18. “On average, millionaires invest 20% of their household income each year. Their wealth isn’t measured by the amount they make each year, but by how they’ve saved and invested over time.” – Ramit Sethi
19. “Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
20. “The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
21. “Wealth is created by a combination of many things, but one of them is catching new trends early.” – Tai Lopez
22. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau
23. “True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.” – Kevin Gates
24. “A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.” – John D. Rockefeller
25. “Wealth is not to feed out egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.” – Andrew Carnegie
26. “The mark of true wealth is determined by how much one can give away.” – T. Harv Eker
27. “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing useful service.” – Henry Ford
28. “It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.” – Margaret Thatcher
29. “My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.” – Warren Buffett
30. “To attract money, you must focus on wealth.” – Rhonda Byrne
31. “Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel — only a means to an end.” – Henry Ford
32. “College degrees do not ensure wealth.” – Dave Ramsey
33. “The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.” – George S. Clason
32. “All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas not money.” – Robert Collier
35. “Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” – Benjamin Franklin
36. “Where there are friends, there is wealth.” – Plautus
37. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” – Zig Ziglar
38. “Acquiring wealth requires a skill, determination, a sometimes even a little luck. But keeping wealth requires a wealthy mindset and focus.” – The STRIVE
39. “When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.” – Robin Sharma
40. “There’s no such thing as wealth without risk.” – John C. Bogle
41. “Less ego, more wealth. Saving money is the gap between your ego and your income, and wealth is what you don’t see. So wealth is created by suppressing what you could buy today in order to have more stuff or more options in the future. No matter how much you earn, you will never build wealth unless you can put a lid on how much fun you can have with your money right now, today.” – Morgan Housel
42. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
43. “You get paid in direct proportion to the problem you solve.” – Elon Musk
44. “The point of getting rich is so you don’t have to get along with other people.” – Charlie Munger
45. “Wealth is largely the result of habit.” – John Jacob Astor
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Bonus Wealth Quote
Bonus: Alright, here is one of our favorite quotes about wealth. We added it as a bonus, because we stand behind it, and believe it to be 100% helpful.
“Controlled Time Is Our True Wealth.”
– R. Buckminster fuller –
Final Thoughts
There you have it, some of the best wealth quotes of all time. We hope that you inspired you, and most importantly, we hope they guide you toward finding more wealth in your life; regardless of the type you seek.
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If you have yet to reach the level of wealth you desire, keep to it.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
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