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GET FIRED UP: 365 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES TO ENCOURAGE YOUR SUCCESS DAILY
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]
“Nurture Your Mind With Great Thoughts, For You Will Never Go Any Higher Than You Think.”
It is for this reason, that we’ve decided to publish a comprehensive list of the best motivational quotes to not only get you through the tough times, but to help you navigate and surmount the challenges that would keep you from the success you seek.
So, if you’re ready to nurture your mind with 365 motivational quotes for success, quotes that will push you every day of the week until dreams and your reality become one, let’s get to it:
365 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR 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
“If it’s important, you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Ryan Blair
Tweet Quote27. “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. “It was desire that brought progress to the world.” – Claude M. Bristol
90. “The secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides
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. “If you want to have more, you must become more.” – Jim Rohn
159. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott
160. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
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. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
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. “Aim for the highest.” – Andrew Carnegie
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. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
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
“Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Dan Kennedy
Tweet Quote227. “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. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
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. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
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. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
301. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
302. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
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 –
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 them.
Till next time,
STRIVE
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Grit, that critical character trait that can be found in just about every single person who’s achieved their dreams. Having grit is all about being steadfast and maintaining the firmness of character needed to see things through. It’s about having that “do or die” attitude which is often found in those who possess an indomitable spirit. So, in honor of one of the most powerful character traits you can adopt to experience more success in your life, we’ve pulled together one of the most inspiring collections of grit quotes.
Our hope is that these quotes will give you a better understanding on exactly what grit is, and how you can embrace this quality more fully. But more importantly, we hope these quotes inspire you with a renewed spirit and passion to persevere until you reach your aims.
So, if you’re ready to be inspired to unleash your own indomitable spirit, let’s dive into these powerful quotes on grit:
BEST GRIT QUOTES TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
1. “Grit is living life like it is a marathon, not a sprint.” – Angela Duckworth
2. “Grit is having the courage to push through, no matter what the obstacles are, because it’s worth it.” – Chris Morris
3. “Success doesn’t just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.” – Ogwo David Eminike
4. Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out and not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years.” – Angela Duckworth
5. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
6. “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
7. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.” – John Wayne
8. “True grit is staying in the game when others would have dropped the ball and left the park.” – Anonymous
9. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, commitment, and hard work.” – Grit quote
10. “Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.” – Angela Duckworth
11. “You don’t need an MBA to launch a business. You need street smarts and grit.” – Barbara Corcoran
12. “Grit determines that life challenges will neither defeat nor define us.” – Anonymous
13. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey
14. “Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future.” – Angela Duckworth
15. “Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” – John Ortberg
16. “I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite — one little drop of mud and grit at a time.” – Joe Hill
17. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” – Goethe
18. “Grit isn’t about getting an incredible dose of inspiration or courage. It’s about building the daily habits that allow you to stick to a schedule and overcome challenges and distractions over and over and over again.” – James Clear
19. “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” – John Wooden
20. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.” – David Goggins
21. “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
22. “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
23. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
24. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.” – Sonya Teclai
25. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
26. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough grit.” – Atlas Rowe
27. “What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. Persistence. It’s making your own luck.” – Peter Diamandis
28. “Someone twice as talented but half as hardworking as another person might reach the same level of skill but still produce dramatically less over time.” – Angela Duckworth
29. “Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.” – Jonah Lehrer
30. “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina.” – Angela Duckworth
31. “Grit is the one trait that I, as a mentor, try to instill in younger entrepreneurs. Your road as an entrepreneur likely won’t be easy or straightforward. But, fortunately, those who train themselves to persevere and remain committed to their vision and principles are much more likely to attain their entrepreneurial goals than those who lack this sense of grit.” – Amine Rahal
32. “You can have all the talent in the world, but you will never achieve your goals without effort. This is why grit is the foundation of success.” – Ashley Elizabeth
33. “Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren’t very many times where we have the space to sit and reflect and really understand the depth of what it took and the grit that we had to have to get to where we are.” – Jessica Alba
34. “Grit comes down to your habits. It’s about doing the things you know you’re supposed to do on a more consistent basis. It’s about your dedication to daily practice and your ability to stick to a schedule.” – James Clear
35. “The #1 predictor of success… Grit! The ability to persevere, overcome and move forward in spite of challenges, failures and obstacles.” – Anonymous
36. “It is after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pear-making seminars with other oysters.” – Stephen King
37. “The moment you feel like quitting is the time you need to keep on going. Persistence fuels genius. And grit creates champions.” – Robin Sharma
38. “Quitting is the easiest thing to do.” – Robert Kiyosaki
39. “Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” – Angela Duckworth
40. “Sometimes, a winner is a dreamer who just won’t quit.” – Rudy
41. “Gritty people are resilient, in the sense that they thrive through adversity. They reframe every challenge as an opportunity and do the work to become the master of their emotions.” – Ashley Elizabeth
42. “It’s not that I am so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
43. “God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.” – Beth Moore
44. “The difference in winning and losing is most often. Not quitting.” – Walt Disney
45. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
46. “Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.” – Sarah Lewis
47. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot
48. “When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.” – Nido Qubein
49. “I hated every minute of training, But I said don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
50. “Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny.” – Paul Bradley Smith
51. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
52. “Dream chasing is not for the faint of heart. Not only does it take massive courage to reach for the dreams and goals that many shrug off as impossible, but it also takes grit, tenacity, and an indomitable spirit to see things through.” – Nathan Lee Morales
53. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
54. “Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.” – Bill Hybels
55. “A little more persistence a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless
failure may turn into a glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
56. “Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit.” – Chip Heath
57. “Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up.” – Spryte Loriano
58. “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” – Jack Ma
59. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
60. “Grit; a mixture of hard work, consistency, and hustle.” – Anonymous
61. “Listen, every overnight success has taken 15 years, and that’s just the way it goes.” – Daymond John
62. “The 99% that achieve are willing to sacrifice, be persistent and put in disproportionate work, and think in 50 year terms not 50 day terms.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
63. “One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time.” – Rocky Balboa
64. “There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.” – Henry Ford
65. Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief – everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.” – Dustin Poirier
66. “For great things do not just happen by impulse, but are a succession of small things linked together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
67. “Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.” – Carol Dweck
68. “Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to the light.” – John Milton
69. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid
70. “Grit is choosing to hang on when you desperately want to let go.” – The STRIVE
71. “Grit is guts, resilience, industriousness and tenacity. Grit is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.” – Linda Kaplan Thaler
72. “Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized, spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.” – Edwin Percy Whipple
73. “Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.” – Tim S. Grover
74. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
75. “Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest.” – Travis Bradberry
76. “Grit is more endurance than strength. Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you’re willing to see it through to completion.” – Lee David Daniels
77. “To achieve a different result simply requires a different choice of understanding, grit and intention.” – Ty Howard
78. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
79. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
80. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” – Angela Duckworth
81. “Talent counts. But effort counts twice.” – Tom Bilyeu
82. “The most successful people are those who are willing t keep moving forward after making mistakes. They find a way not to avoid life’s inevitable obstacles, but to overcome them.” – Ashley Elizabeth
83. “When we demonstrate grit or are described as gritty, it is because we have had the resilience to push ourselves over, through, around, and sometimes under obstacles.” – Kori D. Miller
84. “People that have grit are extraordinarily resilient and are willing to put in the effort to get things done.” – Lee David Daniels
85. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” – Abraham Lincoln
Bonus Grit Quote
Bonus: Alright, here is one of our favorite quotes about grit. We added it as bonus, because we stand behind it, and believe it to be 100% true.
“Your Dreams Are On The Other Side Of Your Grit.”
FINAL THOUGHTS
Great job making it to the end of these grit quotes! We don’t doubt that scouring through our extensive list took a fair amount of grit on your part, so big kudos to you.
That said, we hope you found at lease a handful of these quotes inspiring and moving. But more importantly, we hope they’ve helped you find a renewed passion to stay gritty and keep moving forward towards your dreams and goals until you reach them.
Till you reach your personal mountain top,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these grit quotes, then there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy this highly inspirational quotes about resilience.
Jen Sincero is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and motivational coach who’s helped countless people transform their personal lives with her books, online advice, and coaching. With that said, her best-selling book You Are a Badass is a powerful resource that can help just about anyone make big and exciting changes in their lives, and level up in general. As such, we’ve rounded up some of the best You Are A Badass Quotes we could find.
Our hope is that they’ll inspire you enough to learn more about Jen Sincero’s life-changing philosophy, and prompt you to begin becoming a badass of your own.
So, without further ado, let’s dive into these power quotes from You Are a Badass:
BEST YOU ARE A BADASS QUOTES
1. “There’s nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fu**-yeah.” – Jen Sincero
2. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jen Sincero
3. “You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.” – Jen Sincero
4. “So often, we pretend we’ve made a decision, when what we’ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.” – Jen Sincero
5. “You need to have a ten-ton gorilla of desire behind your decision or else you’ll wimp out the second things get hard.” – Jen Sincero
6. “You are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. It’s got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you.” – Jen Sincero
7. “You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.” – Jen Sincero
8. “What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.” – Jen Sincero
9. “It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.” – Jen Sincero
10. “On the other side of your fear is freedom” – Jen Sincero
11. “We only get to be in our bodies for a limited time, why not celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until it’s over?” – Jen Sincero
12. “Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone.” – Jen Sincero
13. “Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.” – Jen Sincero
14. “We are all perfect in our own, magnificent, f***ed-up ways. Laugh at yourself. Love yourself and others. Rejoice in the cosmic ridiculousness.” – Jen Sincero
15. “Take care of yourself as if you’re the most awesome person you’ve ever met.” – Jen Sincero
16. “You cut yourself off from the supply of awesomeness when you are not in a state of gratitude.” – Jen Sincero
17. “You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.” – Jen Sincero
18. “Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you.” – Jen Sincero
19. “Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our actions, our actions become our habits, and our habits become our realities.” – Jen Sincero
20. “Deciding is freedom. Indecision is torture.” – Jen Sincero
21. “In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.” – Jen Sincero
22. “Say nice things about your body, dress it up, and take it out. Give it hot sex, luxurious baths, and massages. Move it, stretch it, nourish it, hydrate it, pay attention to it—The better our bodies feel, the happier and more productive we are.” – Jen Sincero
23. “Don’t waste your precious time giving one single crap about what anybody else thinks of you.” – Jen Sincero
24. “If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.” – Jen Sincero
25. “Your reality is created by what you focus on and how you choose to interpret it.” – Jen Sincero
26. “When you love yourself enough to stand in your truth no matter what the cost, everyone benefits.” – Jen Sincero
27. “Most answers reveal themselves through doing, not thinking.” – Jen Sincero
28. “Wallowing in the pain and suffering isn’t going to help anyone, yourself included, any more than starving yourself will help the hungry. If you want to help the world and yourself, keep your frequency high and do your work from a place of power and joy.” – Jen Sincero
29. “Who you surround yourself with greatly affects how you see your world and how high you set the bar for yourself.” – Jen Sincero
30. “Your beliefs hold the key to your financial success.” – Jen Sincero
31. “When you hang out with whiners, pessimists, tweakers, bleakers, freakers-outers and life-is-so-unfairers, it’s an uphill climb to keep yourself in a positive headspace. Stay away from people with tiny minds and tiny thoughts and start hanging out with people who see limitless possibility as the reality.” – Jen Sincero
32. “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
33. “All life is either moving forward and evolving or shrinking back and dying. If you want to evolve in your own life, you have to push through the obstacles instead of running from them. Obstacles and challenges are the agents of growth.” – Jen Sincero
34. “You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming onto this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn’t have bothered with you otherwise. You can’t screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It’s who you always will be. It’s not up for negotiation.” – Jen Sincero
35. “Love yourself.” – Jen Sincero
36. “You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it’s got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid.” – Jen Sincero
37. “The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.” – Jen Sincero
38. “You faith in The Universe must be stronger than your fear of not getting what you want.” – Jen Sincero
39. “One of the best things you can do to improve the world is to improve yourself.” – Jen Sincero
Bonus Quote From You Are a Badass
Bonus: Here’s one last final quote from You Are A Badass, it’s a great piece of advice, and we think that there is true power behind it. Enjoy!
“Give Yourself Permission and the Means (Yes, This Includes the Money), to Be Who You Are Regardless of What Anybody Else Things or Believes Is Possible.”
– jen sincero –
Final Thoughts
Jen Sincero created a masterpiece with her book, and as you can tell from this list of top You Are A Badass Quotes, that she has much wisdom and life-changing advice to impart.
With that said, if you have yet to read her book, you can get it here:
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That just about wraps us this quotes page. If any of these quotes inspired or motivated you, please do us (and Jen Sincero) a favor and share the page. You never know who’s life her words (and her book) might change.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
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Motivational speeches are like the nuclear option for leaders. And they are typically a part of every good leaders toolkit. The motivational speech is a powerful tool that can be used to motivate and engage an audience into action and delivering a specific set of results. The motivational speech speaks directly to the hearts and minds people, cutting through the fluff and the inessential, to get right to the heart of the matter.
Having said that, chances are you’re here because you’re either looking for some good material to give your own motivational speech to fellow colleagues and team members. Or, you’re here looking to follow the path of self-leadership, by purposely listening to empowering motivational speeches to galvanize yourself into action. Despite the reason, one thing is for sure, you’re looking for the best motivational speeches of all-time, and you’ll find them here.
So, let’s dive in and see how much we can spur ourselves into action with these powerful motivational speeches:
TOP 10 MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES OF ALL-TIME
Note: These motivational speeches are listed in order of lives touched, a.k.a. the amount of views they’ve managed to garner over the years. Our list starts from 10 and counts down to the #1 most watched speech.
10. Les Brown, “It’s Possible”
Year: 2014 – Views: 6.8 million
Setting: Les Brown is a legendary motivator, coach, author, and is considered one of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers. He’s given thousands of speeches all of the world, but this motivational speech is one of his most popular. The date for the video is the publication date of when Les added it to YouTube; however, the speech was likely given years before. That said, here’s one of our favorite quotes from his speech:
9. J.K. Rowling, “Harvard Commencement Speech”
Year: 2008 – Views: 7.5 million
Setting: J.K. Rowling is arguably one of the most popular and successful author’s in the world, who’s responsible for the famous book series; ‘Harry Potter’. Rowling gave this speech at a Harvard commencement ceremony on the benefits of failure and the importance of imagination. That said, her speech is still one of the most popular motivational speeches of all-time; which is why it’s made our list. Here’s our favorite quote from her speech:
8. Any Given Sunday, “Inches”
Year: 1999 – Views: 10.1 million
Setting: This “Inches” speech given by Al Pacino in the hit move ‘Any Given Sunday‘ is definitely one of the most powerful motivational speeches ever given in movie setting. Sure, there are other speeches in other movies that may give some competition, but this one hits hard, because it deals with more than just sports, it speaks to life.
Having said that, here’s our favorite motivational speech quote:
7. Eric Thomas, “You Owe You”
Year: 2015 – Views: 11.7 million
Setting: Eric Thomas is an extremely popular motivational speaker, author, and educator who’s raw and no-nonsense message about what it takes to succeed in life has helped millions of people all over the world. In fact, this “You Owe You” speech, which he gave in one of his workshops in New Zealand, is his quintessential work. And it’s one of his most love speeches of all-time. Here’s our favorite quote from his speech:
6. Rocky Balboa, “Sunshine and Rainbows”
Year: 2006 – Views: 20 million
Setting: This powerhouse speech is from “Rocky Balboa”, just one of the many great movies created as part of the inspiring Rocky series. Certainly there are other great speeches included in all of the other Rocky movies, but this one in particular is a masterpiece. that said, here’s our favorite line from this short but sweet motivational speech.
5. Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Rules of Success”
Year: 2009 – Views: 31 million
Setting: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic “Rules of Success” speech was given at USC’s 2009 commencement speech. His speech is so popular, that it’s been chopped up and added to countless other motivational montages over the years, which are not included in the 31 million views Tally. That said, it is by far, one of Arnold’s greatest motivational speeches of all-time. Here’s are favorite line from his speech:
4. Mel Robbins, “How To Stop Screwing Yourself Over”
Year: 2011 – Views: 31.2 million
Setting: Mel Robbins is a former lawyer who became a television host, then best-selling author, and now motivational speaker. She’s already sold millions of books, with her most famous being ‘The 5 Second Rule’. That said, this was one of her first motivational speeches which she gave at a Ted Talk, and before she became the success icon that she is today. Our favorite quote from this speech is the following:
3. Denzel Washington, ‘Put God First’
Year: 2015 – Views: 34 million
Setting: Denzel Washington is one of the most famous and highly respected actors in the world. With 60 different films under his belt, three Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and a Tony Award, people want to know what he has to say. So, in 2015 Denzel was invited to give a commencement speech at Dillard University. And it was a speech that would turn out to be one of best motivational speeches of all-time. Here’s our favorite line from his inspiring speech:
2. Steve Jobs, ‘Stanford Commencement Speech”
Year: 2005 – Views: 46 million
Setting: Steve Jobs was the visionary founder and CEO of Apple. He pioneered the personal computer, founded a handful of other companies, and became a multi-billionaire before passing. That said, he was an inspiration to many, and in 2005 he was invited to give a commencement speech at Stanford. It was a speech that would just about break the internet. Here’s our favorite quote form this motivational speech:
1. Admiral William H. McRaven, “Make Your Bed”
Year: 2014 – Views: 51 million
Setting: Admiral William H. McRaven served as the 9th commander of the United States Special Operations Command. In 2014, McRaven gave a commencement speech to UT Austin’s graduating class. His speech would go viral, leading it to become what is now one of the most viewed motivational speeches of all-time. Here’s our favorite quote from this powerful speech:
Final Thoughts
We hope you enjoyed our collection of what we believe to be (and which are supported by the numbers) the best motivational speeches of all-time. If this collection inspired you, please do us, and the world a favor, and the share the page with somebody. You never know who’s life you could touch or change with a few powerful words.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
If you’re looking for some energizing quotes on staying hungry for success, then this page is for you. We created this page because striving to create a successful life has its challenges. Chasing your dreams, changing your behaviors, and overcoming negative habits is not only difficult at times, but it can be down right exhausting.
And believe it or not, getting the most out of life, improving your financial situation, or even reaching a specific goal requires a considerable amount of ambition and consistent energy. In short, you’ve got to be hungry and stay hungry to achieve the success you seek.
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.”
Napoleon Hill, the author of the number 1 best-selling self improvement book of all-time once stated, “Week desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.” Which is why we’ve pulled together these powerful stay hungry quotes… to help you stay on fire for what you want.
So, with that being said, if you’re ready for this collection of quotes meant to help you stay hungry for your aspirations so you can eventually turn them into reality, then let’s dive right in:
TOP QUOTES TO HELP YOU STAY HUNGRY FOR SUCCESS
1. “A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.” – Salman Khan
2. “Everyone wants to eat, but few are willing to hunt.” – Anonymous
3. “Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” – Dwayne Johnson
4. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
5. “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. “Stay hungry and follow your dreams.” – Jack Ma
7. “The world is a jungle. You either fight and dominate or hide and evaporate.” – Anonymous
8. “If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
9. “When you’re hungry for success, don’t let anyone feed you crap about slowing down.” – Marie Forleo
10. “Stay hungry, stay humble” – Tom Brady
11. “Stay hungry. Feast on success. Be more, do more.” – Anonymous
12. “The most successful people in the world have an insatiable hunger to do more, be more, give more, and create more.” – Tony Robbins
13. “Become so curious and obsessed with one thing that you forget everything else. Follow it, drink it, dive deep in it, master it. Remarkable results need remarkable actions.” – Maxime Lagacé
14. “Don’t wait for opportunity to knock, leave the door open.” – Anonymous
15. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” – Les Brown
16. “If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.” – Israelmore Ayivor
17. “I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.” – Grant Cardone
18. “A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.” – Norman Ralph Augustine
19. “The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.” – Anonymous
20. “The people who want to step into their greatness are hungry!” – Les Brown
21. “Be ambitious and passionate about what you are doing and success will find you.” – Steve Jobs
22. “Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
23. “You’ve gotta be hungry for it; ready to put everything into it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one to the line. That’s how leaders are born.” – Ray Lewis
24. “Many successful founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success.” Eric Ries
25. “I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.” – Jay Z
Ready To Get Back to Unleashing Your Talent Yet?
We don’t know about you, but after reading through this first set of stay hungry quotes, we’re feeling fired up to unleash more of our best into the world. But don’t stop reading just yet on our account.
By all means, keep saturating your mind with this last set of quotes on staying hungry for success. Let them rev you up and reignite your drive to achieve “the impossible”. Let’s go!
Related: Best Motivational Quotes of All-Time
26. “Be obsessed or be average.” – Grant Cardone
27. “Surround yourself with those that are hungry for success. – If you get complacent, the pack will remind you to hunt.” – Tiffany Shotwell
28. “My hunger has destroyed my fear of failure. Being hungry is the key element of my success. I am not satisfied with what I achieved yesterday. I want to make progress, to innovate, to grow and to revolutionize the world .” – Steve Jobs
29. “If you want to do anything worthwhile in life, you gotta be hungry.” – Les Brown
30. “Hunger is the only differentiation in people; it’s not talent.” – Tony Robbins
31. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
32. “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
33. “When you’re thirsty drink, when you’re hungry eat, when you want success, work hard.” – Victoria Addino
34. “You need hard work like before you became champion, you work because you were hungry, you need this, and you have big motivation, then you become champion, you lose your motivation, but you forget about other guys, coming, training so hard, very hungry, and you have to understand this. I understand this. I know this stuff, and that is why I keep training and keep working.” – Khabib Nurmagomedov
35. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
36. “I don’t like being comfortable. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to give up. I’d rather stay hungry.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
37. “Successful people stay hungry — knowing this is the only way to no go hungry.” – Grant Cardone
38. “It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.” – Vince Lombardi
39. “A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
40. “Practice like you’ve never won. Play like you’ve never lost.” – Michael Jordan
41. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.” – Pearl S. Buck
42. “Be grateful for what you have, but stay hungry for more.” – Atlas Rowe
43. “The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.” – Tony Robbins
44. “If you really want something, you will work hard for it.” – Edmund Hillary
45. “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
46. “If a man does not work passionately – even furiously – at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.” – George Lois
47. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
48. “I’ve accomplished more than I ever dreamed. But I’m hungry for more.” – Lewis Hamilton
49. “The starting point of all achievement, is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
50. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
Final Thoughts
“Stay hungry” is a popular maxim these days. It’s popularity has grown due to the fact that staying motivated has been isolated as a major factor for achieving what we are after. Being hungry and staying hungry is all about maintaining the resolve, the drive, and the will to achieve whatever it is you’ve set your sights on.
With that being said, we hope these top 50 quotes on being hungry for success, have rekindled you desire for achievement. We hope they have nudged you, even if just a little, to keep to pressing on, full-steam ahead towards your dreams.
Keep to it,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these inspiring quotes on being hungry for success, then no doubt you’ll love these powerful motivational sayings.
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Everyone appreciates a great comeback story. It doesn’t matter if its about a person who after hitting rock-bottom turns their whole life around, or someone who against all odds achieves their dreams. Rooting for the underdog is baked into our DNA.
“It’s Not Over Till It’s Over.”
With that said, we understand that if you’re reading this page right now, there’s a good chance that you may be experiencing your own challenges right now. You may feel like you’re up against the ropes, or like you can’t turn things around in your life. If that is you, just remember, it isn’t over till it’s over… and you can mount a comeback.
We’ve got your back, and we are rooting for you. Which is why we’ve pulled together some of the most powerful and motivating comeback quotes. Our hope is that these quotes remind you to keep fighting, to stay hopeful, and if you’ve fallen, to get back up. May these quotes inspire you to make your comeback.
BEST COMEBACK QUOTES FOR OVERCOMING SETBACKS
1. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi
2. “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.” – Kobe Bryant
3. “If I can comeback from where I come from, then you can do it too.” – Tyson Fury
4. “Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.” – Steven Adler
5. “The comeback is always stronger than the setback.” – Anonymous
6. “What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” – Lionel Block
7. “Celebrate small victories. Although they may not yet count as your big comeback, these will help re-establish your self-esteem and empower you to take on the challenges that lie ahead.” – Salma El-Shurafa
8. “Great people make failure the cornerstone of their success.” – Anonymous
9. “You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.” – Muhammad Ali
10. “A setback is a setup for a comeback.” – Les Brown
11. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
12. “Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” – Les Brown
13. “It’s not over till you WIN!” – Les Brown
14. “I am making the comeback of the century.” – Bob Backlund
15. “A setback only paves the way for a comeback.” – Evander Holyfield
16. “I wanted to show the world that it can be done. Anything is possible with the right mindset. If you believe in yourself and you sacrifice and dedicate, with the right help you can come back.” – Tyson Fury
17. “Failure is not the end. Failure is the the start of your comeback story.” – Anonymous
18. “I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.” – Billie Holiday
19. “When life knocks you down, get back up, and whatever you do, don’t stop swinging!” – The STRIVE
20. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
21. “I just showed the world tonight, everyone suffering from mental health. You can comeback, it can be done.” – Tyson Fury
22. “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
23. “A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.” – Donna de Varona
24. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
25. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
26. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
27. “Failure is often a prerequisite for your success; not a life sentence.” – Anonymous
28. “Setbacks are part and parcel of life. But, if you can see each set back as but another opportunity to spring you further ahead of where you were before your set back, you’ll become unstoppable.” – The STRIVE
29. “Today’s struggle is tomorrow’s strength, and today’s failure is tomorrow’s reward.” – Comeback Quote
30. “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.” – Rocky
31. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life.” And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
32. “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” – Stephen Richards
33. “The secret to mounting a successful comeback is to never stop believing.” – Nathan Lee Morales
34. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But soon or late the one who wins, Is the one who thinks he can!” – Walter D. Wintle
35. “A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes.” – Anderson Silva
36. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
37. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
Halfway There
You’re more than halfway done, great job! With that said, we hope these comeback quotes are reigniting the fighting spirit within, so you can overcome whatever challenges you may be facing in life.
If you’re not feeling fired up to make your comeback yet, well then, by all means, please keep hammering away at these comeback quotes. The best is yet to come!
38. “The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders.” – Ben Stein
39. “All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.” – Steven Spielberg
40. “Sometimes, a winner is a dreamer who just won’t quit.” – Rudy
41. “There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.” – Rachel Griffiths
42. “It’s never too late to make a comeback.” – Christina Katz
43. “You can’t master your future if you’re still a slave to your past.” – Rihanna
44. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
45. “My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.” – Thomas Muster
46. “The biggest comeback is making yourself happy again.” – Anonymous
47. “I don’t know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.” – Lane Kiffin
48. “I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.” – Shaggy
49. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin “
50. “You must fail a hundred times to succeed once.” – Sylvester Stallone
51. “But ultimately what matters most is resilience–the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.” – Arianna Huffington
52. “A comeback is a setback that did its homework, learned the lesson, and then moved forward.” – Eleanor Brownn
53. “When you’re crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.” – Steve Maraboli
54. “Live the Life of Your Dreams. When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” – Roy T. Bennett
55. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad
56. “Brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to show us how much we want something.” – Randy Pausch
57. “I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew.” – Baker Mayfield
58. “We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.” – Stephen Covey
59. “It’s possible that you can bounce back from adversity and reinvent your life.” – Atlas Rowe
60. “I stayed true to my dreams, and eventually they came true.” – Kevin Hart
61. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
62. “If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost certain you won’t.” – Walter D. Wintle
63. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
64. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz
65. “The belief that I could still do it, inspired me to work harder.” – Phil Mickelson
66. “I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.” – Alonzo Mourning
67. “So don’t give up, don’t look down, cause your time is gonna come around.” – Kevin Rudolpf
68. “Your “I CAN” is more important than your IQ.” – Robin Sharma
69. “You can make a comeback, but ONLY if believe you can.” – Nathan Lee Morales
70. “Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win.” – Rihanna
71. “In business, setbacks are a part of the game. Whether it’s small losses (losing a deal to a competitor), or big ones (the inability to break even); failure is normal. But, so is dusting yourself off and bouncing back when those setbacks come your way. In fact, your success as an entrepreneur is directly related to how well you bounce back from failure.” – Emily Andrews
72. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
73. “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
74. “I think it’s more than whether or not you win or lose. It’s having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.” – Phil Mickelson
75. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice a work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
76. “Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand.” – Germany Kent
77. “Yesterday I dared to struggle, today I dare to win.” – Bernadette Devlin
78. “Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.” – Dalai Lama
79. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Robert Downey Jr.
80. “We can stay here and get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light.” – Coach Tony D’Amato, Any Given Sunday
81. “The secret to life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” – Paulo Coelho
82. “Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.” – Dara Torres
83. “In every adversity lies the seed of an equal or greater opportunity.” – Napoleon Hill
84. “Every setback has a major comeback.” – Russell Wilson
85. “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” – Tom Landry
86. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” – Robert Kiyosaki
87. “I’ve always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that’s kind of just been my MO for my whole career.” – Serena Williams
88. “Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.” – Walt Disney
89. “I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.” – Thomas Edison
90. “One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.” – Colonel Sanders
91. “If you can look up, then you can get up.” – Les Brown
92. “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” – Usain Bolt
93. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
94. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
96. “The most successful people see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping stone to greatness.” – Shawn Anchor
96. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters How you are going to finish.” – Nick Vujicic
97. “In the depth of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
98. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
99. “Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.”
100. “It is in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.” – James Altucher
101. “Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.” – Anonymous
102. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
103. “From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks, conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.” – Niki Lauda
104. “We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?” – Kendrick Lamar
105. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
106. “The best story is a comeback story.” – Nathan Lee Morales
107. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Chuck Palahniuk
108. “Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.” – Steven Ader
109. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
110. “Once you’ve hit rock bottom the only way is up.” – Anonymous
Bonus Comeback Quote
Bonus: Out of all our comeback quotes this one is a bonus as it comes from someone who knows a thing or two about making a comeback. Once ridiculed by his class and his teacher after telling them about his dream to be on the Television someday, to then eventually having to live out of his car, homeless, for three whole years while he struggled to reach his dream, Steve Harvey knows what it means to make a comeback.
“Your Setback Is Just A Setup For Your Comeback.”
– steve harvey –
Final Thoughts
Alright, there you have it, the best of the best when it comes to comeback quotes. We hope you got what you came for… massive amounts of encouragement to help you keep your eye on the prize, a reminder to never surrender, and new inspiration to aid you in mounting your own personal comeback.
Your victory is just around the corner!
Till then,
STRIVE
PS – If you enjoyed these comeback quotes, then you may enjoy one of these extremely inspiring comeback stories:
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