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The insight and experience of others is a valuable source of inspiration and motivation. And learning from successful leaders and entrepreneurs is a fantastic way to grow.
Even the world's most successful individuals have experienced their fair share of setbacks and hardships. And there's much to learn from their challenges as well as their success.
1. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
2. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney
3. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking." -Steve Jobs
4. "If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." -Eleanor Roosevelt
5. "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." -Oprah Winfrey
6. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." -James Cameron
7. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon
8. "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa
9. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." -Margaret Mead
11. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson
12. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
13. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin
14. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
15. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle
16. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." -Anne Frank
17. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin
19. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
20. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle
21. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." -Anne Frank
22. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." -Maya Angelou
24. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
25. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
26. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." -Babe Ruth
27. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller
28. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison
29. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss
30. "If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor." -Eleanor Roosevelt
31. "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." Pearl Buck
32. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
33. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." -Maya Angelou
35. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." -Babe Ruth
36. "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." -Oscar Wilde
37. "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." -Tony Robbins
38. "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." -Mother Teresa
39. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -Albert Einstein
40. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." -Dalai Lama
41. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon
42. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -Mae West
43. "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
45. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
46. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -Confucius
47. "May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift
48. "Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." -Hans Christian Andersen
49. "Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life." -John Wooden
50. "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." -D. H. Lawrence
51. "Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about." -Marilyn Monroe
52. "Life is a long lesson in humility." -James M. Barrie
53. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
54. "Love the life you live. Live the life you love." -Bob Marley
55. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller
56. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss
57. "Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." -Charles Dickens
58. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking." -Steve Jobs
59. "Life is trying things to see if they work." -Ray Bradbury
60. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison
61. "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
62. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson
63. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston S. Churchill
64. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney
65. "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember -- the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you." -Zig Ziglar
66. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -Henry David Thoreau
67. "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it." -Estee Lauder
68. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton
69. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." -Colin Powell
70. "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." -Barack Obama
71. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
72. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -Herman Melville
73. "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." -Jim Rohn
74. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." -Colin R. Davis
75. "I failed my way to success." -Thomas Edison
76. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." -James Cameron
77. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." -Steve Jobs
78. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -David Brinkley
79. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." -John Wooden
80. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." -Albert Einstein
81. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." -John D. Rockefeller
82. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." -Abraham Lincoln
83. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
84. "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it." -Oprah Winfrey
85. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." -Thomas J. Watson
86. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient." -Gurbaksh Chahal
87. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon
88. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." -Jim Rohn
89. "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." -Alexander Graham Bell
90. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." Tony Robbins
91. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt
92. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou
94. "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
95. "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." -Vince Lombardi
96. "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
97. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky
98. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." -Mother Teresa
99. "You become what you believe." -Oprah Winfrey
100. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -Amelia Earhart
101. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank
102. "An unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates
103. "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." -George Addair
104. "Dream big and dare to fail." -Norman Vaughan
105. "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills
106. "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." -Charles Swindoll
107. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!'" -Audrey Hepburn
108. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." -Confucius
109. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford
110. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." Les Brown
111. "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." -Rosa Parks
112. "I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." -Benjamin Franklin
113. "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." -Sheryl Sandberg
114. "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." -Florence Nightingale
115. "I would rather die of passion than of boredom." -Vincent van Gogh
116. "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." -Oprah Winfrey
117. "Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." -Gloria Steinem
118. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." -Napoleon Hill
119. "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." -Aristotle
120. "Twenty 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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." -Mark Twain
121. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily." -Zig Ziglar
122. "Someday is not a day of the week." -Denise Brennan-Nelson
123. "Hire character. Train skill." -Peter Schutz
124. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." -Steve Jobs
125. "Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect." -W. Clement Stone
126. "Everyone lives by selling something." -Robert Louis Stevenson
127. "If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will." -Bob Hooey
128. "The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place." -Orison Swett Marden
129. "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." -Napoleon Hill
130. "The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents." -Antos Parrish
131. "Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins." -Edith Wharton
132. "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." -J.M. Barrie
133. "Without a customer, you don't have a business -- all you have is a hobby." -Don Peppers
134. "To be most effective in sales today, it's imperative to drop your 'sales' mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you." -Jill Konrath
135. "Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life." -Mary Kay Ash
136. "It's not just about being better. It's about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business." -Tom Abbott
137. "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." -Andy Warhol
138. "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." -Stephen Covey
139. "Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far." -Gary Vaynerchuk
140. "Working hard for something we don't care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion." -Simon Sinek
141. "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." -Lucille Ball
142. "I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." -Estée Lauder
143. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." -Og Mandino
132. "I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." -Estée Lauder
143. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." -Og Mandino
144 "You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." -Shonda Rhimes
145 "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily." -Zig Ziglar
146 "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." -Dale Carnegie
147 "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." -Napoleon Hill
148 "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." -Steve Jobs
149 "I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." -Estée Lauder
150 "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." -Stephen Covey
151 "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky
152 "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
153 "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." -Rosa Parks
154 "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." -Mother Teresa
155 "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!'" -Audrey Hepburn
156 "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
157 "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
158 "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston S. Churchill
159 "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -Henry David Thoreau
160 "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney
161 "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." -Steve Jobs
162 "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
163 "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson
164 "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." Barack Obama
165 "The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead." -Bette Davis
166 "Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." -Brian Tracy
167 "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -Joshua J. Marine.
168 "The memories of men are too frail a thread to hand history from." John Still (1880-1941), British Author of The Jungle Tide