best inspirational quotes for success in life

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

“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

“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.” — Jules Renard

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso

Quotes about working hard

Success often takes time and a lot of work. Consider these inspirational lines about working hard to help get you through each day:

“You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.” — Marsha Evans

“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” — John Carmack

“Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.” – Madeleine Albright

“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it, you don’t have a chance.” — Alex Rodriguez

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."  
—Helen Keller

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."  
—Robert Frost

"Everything you can imagine is real."  
—Pablo Picasso

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."  
—Lao Tzu

 "The secret of getting ahead is getting started."  
—Mark Twain

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
—Babe Ruth

"If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it."
—Elon Musk

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 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 and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
—Michael Jordan

 "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
—Nelson Mandela

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."  
—Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is head down and focus on the job."
—Chris Pine

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca Click to tweet

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley

I love those who can smile in trouble. Leonardo da Vinci

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi Click to tweet

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth. Arthur Schopenhauer

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. Naval Ravikant

. “It never gets easier. You just get better.” – Jordan Hoechlin

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Nicole

“You don’t want to look back and know you could have done better.” – unknown

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson

“Determination is doing what needs to be done even when you don’t feel like doing it.” –  unknown

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

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

“Remember, when it comes to applying for jobs, books ARE judged by their cover!” Patricia Akins

“Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life.” Gloria Davidson

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” —Albert Einstein

 “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” —Julie Andrews

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” —Benjamin Disraeli

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather

“We will either find a way or make one.” —Hannibal

“We seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela

“The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost