100 Motivational Quotes to Inspire Success, Growth, and Happiness

The Ultimate Collection of 100 Inspirational Quotes

Below is a list of 100 carefully curated quotes that will inspire you toward success, personal growth, and resilience. Whether you are striving for greatness or looking to build resilience in tough times, these quotes will provide you with the wisdom and motivation needed to excel.

Motivational Quotes for Success (1–20)

1. Churchill, W. (n.d.).

   "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

2. Lauder, E. (n.d.).

   "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."

3. Thoreau, H. D. (n.d.).

   "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

4. Grosser, C. (n.d.).

   "Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

5. Rockefeller, J. D. (n.d.).

   "Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

6. Jefferson, T. (n.d.).

   "The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

7. Sinatra, F. (n.d.).

   "The best revenge is massive success."

8. Bennett, R. T. (n.d.).

   "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

9. Ali, M. (n.d.).

   "Don’t count the days, make the days count."

10. Schweitzer, A. (n.d.).

    "Happiness is the key to success."

11. Disney, W. (n.d.).

    "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

12. Patton, G. S. (n.d.).

    "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

13. Obama, M. (n.d.).

    "Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives."

14. Drucker, P. (n.d.).

    "The best way to predict your future is to create it."

15. Mandela, N. (n.d.).

    "It always seems impossible until it’s done."

16. Gretzky, W. (n.d.).

    "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

17. James, W. (n.d.).

    "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

18. Ziglar, Z. (n.d.).

    "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving them."

Personal Growth and Resilience (21–40)

19. Rilke, R. M. (n.d.).

    "The only journey is the one within."

20. Emerson, R. W. (n.d.).

    "What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

21. Rohn, J. (n.d.).

    "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

22. Roosevelt, T. (n.d.).

    "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

23. Aristotle. (n.d.).

    "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

24. Wilde, O. (n.d.).

    "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

25. Gandhi, M. (n.d.).

    "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

26. Japanese Proverb. (n.d.).

    "Fall seven times, stand up eight."

27. Swindoll, C. R. (n.d.).

    "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

28. Schuller, R. H. (n.d.).

    "Tough times never last, but tough people do."

29. Roosevelt, F. D. (n.d.).

    "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

30. Rowling, J. K. (n.d.).

    "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

31. Winfrey, O. (n.d.).

    "Turn your wounds into wisdom."

32. Lombardi, V. (n.d.).

    "It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

33. Confucius. (n.d.).

    "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

34. Buddha. (n.d.).

    "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

35. Roosevelt, F. D. (n.d.).

    "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

Positivity and Happiness (41–60)

36. Dalai Lama. (n.d.).

    "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

37. Whitman, W. (n.d.).

    "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

38. Jobs, S. (n.d.).

    "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

39. Khayyam, O. (n.d.).

    "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

40. Aurelius, M. (n.d.).

    "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

41. Lennon, J. (n.d.).

    "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

42. Emerson, R. W. (n.d.).

    "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

43. Gandhi, M. (n.d.).

    "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

44. Euripides. (n.d.).

    "The greatest pleasure of life is love."

45. Cummings, E. E. (n.d.).

    "The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

46. Twain, M. (n.d.).

    "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

47. Aristotle. (n.d.).

    "Happiness depends upon ourselves."

48. Einstein, A. (n.d.).

    "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

49. Harris, S. J. (n.d.).

    "Happiness is a direction, not a place."

50. Hepburn, A. (n.d.).

    "The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

Overcoming Adversity and Resilience (61–80)

51. Angelou, M. (n.d.).

    "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

52. Reeves, D. (n.d.).

    "Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

53. Unknown. (n.d.).

    "Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever."

54. Emerson, R. W. (n.d.).

    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

55. Aurelius, M. (n.d.).

    "You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

56. Bennett, R. T. (n.d.).

    "Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

57. Gandhi, M. (n.d.).

    "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

58. Frost, R. (n.d.).

    "The only way out is through."

59. La Bruyère, J. de. (n.d.). "Out of difficulties grow miracles."

60. Roosevelt, E. (n.d.).

    "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

61. Ward, W. A. (n.d.).

    "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

62. Darwin, C. (n.d.).

    "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

63. Epicurus. (n.d.).

    "The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."

64. Tew, R. (n.d.).

    "The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."

65. Nietzsche, F. (n.d.).

    "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

66. Radmacher, M. A. (n.d.).

    "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

67. Churchill, W. (n.d.).

    "If you’re going through hell, keep going."

68. Jordan, R. (n.d.).

    "The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

Leadership and Purpose (81–100)

69. Sinek, S. (n.d.).

    "Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge."

70. Reagan, R. (n.d.).

    "The greatest leader is not the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

71. Roosevelt, E. (n.d.).

    "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

72. Maxwell, J. C. (n.d.).

    "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

73. Nader, R. (n.d.).

    "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

74. Rohn, J. (n.d.).

    "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude..."

75. Lao Tzu. (n.d.).

    "A leader is best when people barely know he exists... they will say: we did it ourselves."

76. Unknown. (n.d.).

    "Leadership is not about being the best. It's about making everyone else better."

77. Blanchard, K. H. (n.d.).

    "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

78. Picasso, P. (n.d.).

    "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

79. Wilde, O. (n.d.).

    "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

80. Marden, O. S. (n.d.).

    "Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great."

Wisdom, Mindset & Life Philosophy (81–100)

81. Franklin, B. (n.d.).

    "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

82. Carnegie, D. (n.d.).

    "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

83. Lao Tzu. (n.d.).

    "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom."

84. Einstein, A. (n.d.).

    "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

85. Plato. (n.d.).

    "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

86. Socrates. (n.d.).

    "The unexamined life is not worth living."

87. Russell, B. (n.d.).

    "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

88. Pascal, B. (n.d.).

    "Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

89. Aurelius, M. (n.d.).

    "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

90. Hill, N. (n.d.).

    "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

91. Descartes, R. (n.d.).

    "I think, therefore I am."

92. Hawking, S. (n.d.).

    "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

93. Chopra, D. (n.d.).

    "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

94. Covey, S. R. (n.d.).

    "Live out of your imagination, not your history."

95. Robbins, T. (n.d.).

    "The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment."

96. Seneca. (n.d.).

    "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it."

97. Epictetus. (n.d.). "It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

98. Tolle, E. (n.d.).

    "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have."

99. Lincoln, A. (n.d.).

    "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

100. Jobs, S. (n.d.).

     "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."