Your success in the business world, at the career market and in tackling life challenges depends on your determination, persistence and motivation towards pursuing the true success.
What reinforces good attitude towards success is the motivation you derive from the quotes which successful people proved to have been their source of motivation when there seems to be bleak labor.
I want you to agree with me that friends who motivate their friends to be determined, persist and take courage are rarely found in today's relationship.
This list of 100 short quotes really inspires and motivates me when I feel discouraged after some failure and no one seems to encourage me.
I decided to share it with you, who knows, it may help you.
(1) "The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." -H.G. Wells
(2) "I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one." -Bill Gates
(3) "The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing." -Walt Disney
(4) "Your time is precious, so don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
(5) "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison
(6) "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it." -Elon Musk
(7) "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein
(8) People always fear change. - Bill Gate
(9) "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." -Babe Ruth
(10) "I think in terms of evolutions, not revolutions. Failure is not part of my vocabulary." -Shelia Lirio Marcelo, founder of Care.com
(11) "I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars-I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over." -Warren Buffet
(12) "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."-James Cash Penney, founder of J.C. Penney
(13) "Champions keep playing until they get it right." -Billie Jean King
(14) "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." -Proverb
(15) "I never dreamt of success. I worked for it." -Este Lauder
(16) "Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller
(17) "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." -George Bernard Shaw
(18) Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. - Steve Jobs
(20) A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. - Steve Jobs
(21) Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. - Steve Jobs
(22) Half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs
(23) "People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck.... The world is run by those who show up...not those who wait to be asked." -Steve Blank
(24) "Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day." -Gary Vaynerchuck
(25) "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." -Mark Twain
(26) "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -Vince Lombardi
(27) "Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would." -Larry Ellison
(28) "What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."
-James Dyson
(29) "Most people give up just when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." -H. Ross Perot
(30) "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill
(31) "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." -Reid Hoffman
(32) "If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business." -Ray Kroc
(33) "You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame." -Erica Jong
(34) "There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." -Roger Staubach
(35) "The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."
-Debbi Fields
(36) "It's irreverence, foolish confidence, and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness, and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and others." -Vinod Khosla
(37) "Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." -Biz Stone
(38) "Data beats emotions" -Sean Rad, founder of Tinder
(39) "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic." -Unknown (but if you think you know who said it, email me)
(40) "I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying." -Jeff Bezos
(41) "When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue."-Josh James, CEO and founder of Omniture and Domo
(42) "Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded." -Paul Graham
(43) "Running a startup is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood." -Sean Parker
(44) "You can't make anything viral, but you can make something good." -Peter Shankman
(45) "Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like." -Brian Chesky
(46) "Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress." -Seth Godin
(47) "For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast." -Tony Hsieh
(48) "There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team." -Jason Fried, founder of 37signals
(49)"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
(50) "Never be ashamed! There's some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with." -J.K. Rowling
(51) "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -President Abraham Lincoln
(52) "Your income is directly related to your philosophy, not the economy." -Jim Rohn
(53) "There are no working hours for leaders." -James Cardinal Gibbons
(54) "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -Dwight Eisenhower
(55) "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, co-founder of Github
(56) "We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve". -Bill Gates
(57) "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." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(58) "Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life." -John D. Rockefeller
(59) "Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once." -Drew Houston, co-founder of Dropbox
(60) "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." -Coco Chanel
(61) "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." -Sir Richard Branson
(62) "The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few." -Philip Knight
(63) "Good is the enemy of great." -Jim Collins, author of Good to Great
(64) "There's lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there's only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it's to change the world." -Phil Libin, Evernote
(65) "Fall seven times and stand up eight." -Unknown
(66) "There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity." -General Douglas MacArthur
(67) "Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give-with a few exceptions-generalize whatever they did.... Just build things and find out if they work." -Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest
(68) "Being able to touch so many people through my businesses, and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing." -Magic Johnson
(69) "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt
(70) "Don't worry about funding if you don't need it. Today, it's cheaper to start a business than ever." -Noah Everett, founder of Twitpic
(71) "There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." -Sam Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club
(72) "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
(73) "The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent." -Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
(74) "Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice." -Peter Drucker
(75) "So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard." -Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr
(76) "Diligence is the mother of good luck." -Benjamin Franklin
(77)"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me." -Arianna Huffington
(78) "If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself." -Howard Hughes
(79) "Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you." -Mark Cuban
(80) "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon
(81) "Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner." -Lao Tzu
(82) "Nothing works better than just improving your product." -Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow
(83)"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." -Bill Bradley
(84) "Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical." -Howard Schultz
(85)"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -H. Jackson Browne
(86) "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning". -Bill Gates
(87) "The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell." -Andrew Carnegie
(88) "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" - Warren Buffett
(89) "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1". - Warren Buffett
(90) "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it". - Warren Buffett
(91) "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken". - Warren Buffett
(92) "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get". - Warren Buffett
(93) "A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought". - Warren Buffet
(94) "The only way to get love is to be lovable". - Warren Buffet
(95) "Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does". - Warren Buffet
(96) "The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging". - Warren Buffet
(97) "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose". - Bill Gates
(98) "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure". -Bill Gates
(99) "In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a startup, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'" -Ashton Kutcher
(100) "The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way."
-Tim Ferriss
According to Suzanne Lucas, 53% of Americans feel devastated and tired at work, but 86% are still happy and motivated to continue with their daily routine. Why do you think those numbers are not compatible? It can be seen that working hard can help to make you happy. Too much free time can make you unmotivated and bored. Having a job where you have too little work to do makes it tedious to seat at a desk pretending to be doing something while you not actually doing any thing.
Self motivation is one of the most important factor that contribut to a true success. Always motivate yourself as you move higher and higher.
Who is your mentor?
Which of the quotes is your favorite ?
Which quote do you think should have been included?
Just drop your answer in the comment box by clicking on "post a comment" below.
What reinforces good attitude towards success is the motivation you derive from the quotes which successful people proved to have been their source of motivation when there seems to be bleak labor.
I want you to agree with me that friends who motivate their friends to be determined, persist and take courage are rarely found in today's relationship.
This list of 100 short quotes really inspires and motivates me when I feel discouraged after some failure and no one seems to encourage me.
I decided to share it with you, who knows, it may help you.
(1) "The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." -H.G. Wells
(2) "I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one." -Bill Gates
(3) "The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing." -Walt Disney
(4) "Your time is precious, so don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
(5) "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison
(6) "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it." -Elon Musk
(7) "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein
(8) People always fear change. - Bill Gate
(9) "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." -Babe Ruth
(10) "I think in terms of evolutions, not revolutions. Failure is not part of my vocabulary." -Shelia Lirio Marcelo, founder of Care.com
(11) "I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars-I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over." -Warren Buffet
(12) "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."-James Cash Penney, founder of J.C. Penney
(13) "Champions keep playing until they get it right." -Billie Jean King
(14) "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." -Proverb
(15) "I never dreamt of success. I worked for it." -Este Lauder
(16) "Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller
(17) "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." -George Bernard Shaw
(18) Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. - Steve Jobs
(20) A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. - Steve Jobs
(21) Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. - Steve Jobs
(22) Half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs
(23) "People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck.... The world is run by those who show up...not those who wait to be asked." -Steve Blank
(24) "Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day." -Gary Vaynerchuck
(25) "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." -Mark Twain
(26) "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -Vince Lombardi
(27) "Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would." -Larry Ellison
(28) "What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."
-James Dyson
(29) "Most people give up just when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." -H. Ross Perot
(30) "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill
(31) "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." -Reid Hoffman
(32) "If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business." -Ray Kroc
(33) "You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame." -Erica Jong
(34) "There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." -Roger Staubach
(35) "The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."
-Debbi Fields
(36) "It's irreverence, foolish confidence, and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness, and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and others." -Vinod Khosla
(37) "Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." -Biz Stone
(38) "Data beats emotions" -Sean Rad, founder of Tinder
(39) "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic." -Unknown (but if you think you know who said it, email me)
(40) "I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying." -Jeff Bezos
(41) "When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue."-Josh James, CEO and founder of Omniture and Domo
(42) "Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded." -Paul Graham
(43) "Running a startup is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood." -Sean Parker
(44) "You can't make anything viral, but you can make something good." -Peter Shankman
(45) "Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like." -Brian Chesky
(46) "Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress." -Seth Godin
(47) "For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast." -Tony Hsieh
(48) "There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team." -Jason Fried, founder of 37signals
(49)"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
(50) "Never be ashamed! There's some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with." -J.K. Rowling
(51) "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -President Abraham Lincoln
(52) "Your income is directly related to your philosophy, not the economy." -Jim Rohn
(53) "There are no working hours for leaders." -James Cardinal Gibbons
(54) "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -Dwight Eisenhower
(55) "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, co-founder of Github
(56) "We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve". -Bill Gates
(57) "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." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(58) "Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life." -John D. Rockefeller
(59) "Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once." -Drew Houston, co-founder of Dropbox
(60) "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." -Coco Chanel
(61) "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." -Sir Richard Branson
(62) "The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few." -Philip Knight
(63) "Good is the enemy of great." -Jim Collins, author of Good to Great
(64) "There's lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there's only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it's to change the world." -Phil Libin, Evernote
(65) "Fall seven times and stand up eight." -Unknown
(66) "There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity." -General Douglas MacArthur
(67) "Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give-with a few exceptions-generalize whatever they did.... Just build things and find out if they work." -Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest
(68) "Being able to touch so many people through my businesses, and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing." -Magic Johnson
(69) "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt
(70) "Don't worry about funding if you don't need it. Today, it's cheaper to start a business than ever." -Noah Everett, founder of Twitpic
(71) "There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." -Sam Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club
(72) "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
(73) "The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent." -Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
(74) "Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice." -Peter Drucker
(75) "So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard." -Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr
(76) "Diligence is the mother of good luck." -Benjamin Franklin
(77)"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me." -Arianna Huffington
(78) "If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself." -Howard Hughes
(79) "Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you." -Mark Cuban
(80) "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon
(81) "Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner." -Lao Tzu
(82) "Nothing works better than just improving your product." -Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow
(83)"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." -Bill Bradley
(84) "Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical." -Howard Schultz
(85)"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -H. Jackson Browne
(86) "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning". -Bill Gates
(87) "The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell." -Andrew Carnegie
(88) "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" - Warren Buffett
(89) "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1". - Warren Buffett
(90) "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it". - Warren Buffett
(91) "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken". - Warren Buffett
(92) "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get". - Warren Buffett
(93) "A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought". - Warren Buffet
(94) "The only way to get love is to be lovable". - Warren Buffet
(95) "Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does". - Warren Buffet
(96) "The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging". - Warren Buffet
(97) "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose". - Bill Gates
(98) "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure". -Bill Gates
(99) "In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a startup, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'" -Ashton Kutcher
(100) "The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way."
-Tim Ferriss
According to Suzanne Lucas, 53% of Americans feel devastated and tired at work, but 86% are still happy and motivated to continue with their daily routine. Why do you think those numbers are not compatible? It can be seen that working hard can help to make you happy. Too much free time can make you unmotivated and bored. Having a job where you have too little work to do makes it tedious to seat at a desk pretending to be doing something while you not actually doing any thing.
Self motivation is one of the most important factor that contribut to a true success. Always motivate yourself as you move higher and higher.
Who is your mentor?
Which of the quotes is your favorite ?
Which quote do you think should have been included?
Just drop your answer in the comment box by clicking on "post a comment" below.
I enjoyed all but the number by Bill Gate, touched me more.
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