“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
Bruce Lee

I love decluttering.

Why?

Because a life with less clutter makes it easier to:

• Reduce the daily stress and find inner peace.
• Focus and to do a better job (and often do it quicker too).
• Keep your attention steadily on what is most important and meaningful in life.

Clutter creates distraction. It can create stress and confusion that you may not be aware that it’s creating.

But after you have decluttered there is usually a sensation of feeling calmer and lighter, a bit more upbeat and being able to think more clearly.

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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett

“It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.”
Unknown

It starts with just a thought or a feeling. Or maybe with a sentence spoken by someone else.

And then it starts to drag you down.

Into feeling sorry for yourself, worried or into thinking “what’s the point of taking any action at all?” as you walk around in a funk with your own personal rain cloud above your head.

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We all have dreams.

Maybe yours is to be the best at something in school or at work, at a sport or some other passion.

Or to make the trip somewhere in the world that you’ve been thinking about for years now.

Or to improve your financial situation, social skills, find that special someone or to get into great shape.

Sometimes it’s hard to keep your dream alive.

And at other times your dreams can remain just daydreams for far too long.

So this week I’d like to share 120 thought-provoking, motivating, practically helpful and growth oriented quotes on dreams and on making them real from the past 2500 years.

I hope you’ll find something inspiring and helpful here.

Inspiring Quotes on Dreams

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
– Ashley Smith

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean

“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.”
– W. Clement Stone

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
– Douglas H. Everett

“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
– John Barrymore

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
– Tom Bradley

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
– Epicurus

“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

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.“
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.'”
– Tom Preston-Werner

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
– Paulo Coelho

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
– Christopher Reeve

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
– Nelson Mandela

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”
– Jonas Salk

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
– David Allen

“It may be that those who do most, dream most.”
– Stephen Butler Leacock

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
– Langston Hughes

”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

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

“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
– William Butler Yeats

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
– Ben Stein

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
– John Updike

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
– T.E. Lawrence

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

Insightful Quotes about Dreams

“Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible.”’
– Brian Tracy

“When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, they take patience , and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.”
– Harvey Mackay

“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. You will have to work for it, however.”
– Richard Bach

“The only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Ask yourself, ‘How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?’ I suggest you answer, ‘As long as it takes.’”
– Jim Rohn

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
– Yoko Ono

“Sometimes you got to push harder to get over an obstacle that’s in the path towards your dream. But you usually only have to do that for a little while at a time.”
– Unknown

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
– Amy Tan

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn

“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

“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
– Belva Davis

“My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.”
– Richard Branson

“Dream big. Even if you don’t hit your goal you’ll likely accomplish more than if you go after a small or medium sized dream that you’re not that excited about.”
– Rip Miller

“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
– Elias Canetti

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
– Vince Lombardi

“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
– Neil Gaiman

“I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.”
– Simone Biles

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Get up every morning and remind yourself of the dreams you have and the small and big successes you have achieved throughout your life. This will remind you of your best self and set a positive tone for the rest of your day.”
– Unknown

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
– Dr Roopleen

“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
– Jonas Salk

“I can’t tell you how great a feeling it is for me, but I can’t stress enough that the dream is not over. I’m not satisfied or complacent with where I am. I want to keep pushing forward, and I want this team to keep doing good things. We’ve still got a long way to go.”
– Wes Miller

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The most inspiring piece of advice I’ve gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward. I always remind myself, ‘This too shall pass,’ and then I redouble my efforts.”
– Liya Kebede

“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and you fly.”
– Israelmore Ayivor

“The only dreams that come true are the ones you chase, if you do nothing, you get nothing.”
– Joseph Atser

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning.”
– Angeline Trevena

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”
– Dr. Dale E. Turner

Short Dreams Quotes

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
-Walt Disney

“The distance between dreams and reality is called action.”
– Brian Tracy

“Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.”
– Annette White

“Dream and give yourself permission to envision a YOU that you choose to be.”
– Joy Page

“Hope is a waking dream.”
– Aristotle

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Keep pushing. Keep going. Do all you can to make your dreams into reality.”
– Eloise Green

“Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.”
– Josie Bisse

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
– Lou Holtz

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Rohn

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem

“Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.”
– Richard Wilkins

“The small steps you take will quickly add up. The journey to achieve your dream sometimes doesn’t actually take as much time as you’d thought.”
– Paige Sumner

“Set your goal and keep moving forward.”
– Georges St-Pierre

“The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and the willingness to work hard for them.”
– Michelle Obama

“Be a go-getter. Go the extra mile. Because most people won’t and that’s often what’s needed to make your dreams real.”
– Unknown

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
– Joseph Campbell

“Keep dreaming. Keep working. Because the other option is to be working on someone else’s dreams.”
– Rip Miller

“Follow your dreams, they know the way.”
– Kobe Yamada

“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”
– Richard Branson

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
– Estee Lauder

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.”
– Brian Tracy

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
– Victor Hugo

“Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.”
– Wim Wenders

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
– Colin Powell

“Remember, it’s always darkest before dawn. Making your dream into reality may be closer than you think.”
– Eloise Green

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

“Dream big. Start small. But most of all start.”
– Simon Sinek

Success.

We all want it in some way.

In school or in our careers. In relationships with our children, partner, friends, someone we just started seeing and with ourselves. With our mental and physical health.

But how do you find success? And what is success?

Today I’d like to share timeless advice from the people who walked this earth before us (and from some who are still here).

This is 115 thought-provoking, useful, sometimes funny and always motivating quotes on success.

And if you want more inspirational quotes like these check out this collection of quotes on having a growth mindset and this one filled with quotes on moving forward in life.

115 Motivational Quotes on Success

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Herman Cain

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.”
– Herbert B. Swope

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
– Roy L. Smith

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
– Orison Swett Marden

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
– Albert Einstein

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm

”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
– Brian Tracy

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
– Abraham Maslow

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
– Bruce Feirstein

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
– George Sheehan

“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
– Ray Goforth

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
– Clay P. Bedford

“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?”
– Brian Tracy

“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
– Unknown

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“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

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks

“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama

“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha

“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

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

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
– David M. Burns

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

“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

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
– Mark Victor Hansen

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.”
– Kim Garst

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
– Anthony Robbins

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
– Peter Drucker

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin

“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.”
– Denis Waitley

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
– David Bly

“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
– Wilfred Peterson

“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
– Vaibhav Shah

“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
– Andy Rooney

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

“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 and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

“Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts.”
– Unknown

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
– Milton Erickson

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
– Albert Einstein

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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

“The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”
– Unknown

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
– Francis Chan

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
– Henry Ford

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
– Steve Jobs

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
– Walt Disney

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel

“For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
Estee Lauder

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.”
– John D. Rockefeller

“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”
– Paulo Coelho

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is your favorite success quotes? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below.

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
C. S. Lewis

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett

Oftentimes things go OK or even better than that.

But on some days they don’t.

You make a mistake, have setback or you simply fail. It’s no fun. But you can’t avoid it either unless you avoid doing anything at all.

So what’s needed is a smart and self-kind way to handle such situations instead of letting them lead to vicious self-beatings and to them dragging you down into negativity for the day or month.

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