Last Updated on September 23, 2022
Here are 150 profound daily motivational quotes for success. At Everyday Power, we’ve compiled quotes from a wide variety of great minds, including writers, athletes, TV personalities and CEOs. Each of the following quotes is full of innovation, creativity and knowledge.
1. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
2. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
3. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
4. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
5. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
6. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
7. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
8. “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
9. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
10. “Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats
11. “No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
12. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
13. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
14. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
15. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
16. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
17. “Stay foolish to stay sane.” – Maxime Lagacé
18. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
19. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
20. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
22. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” – André Gide
23. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
24. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
25. “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
26. “To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.” – Wilson Kanadi
27. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
28. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
29. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
30. “No guts, no story.” – Chris Brady
31. “Keep going. Be all in.” – Bryan Hutchinson
32. “Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides
33. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
34. “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
35. “If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.” – Charlie Gilkey
36. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
37. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
38. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
39. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
40. “Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
41. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
42. “Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.” – Tim Cook
43. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
44. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
45. “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
46. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov
47. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
48. “We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.” – Virginia Williams
49. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens (see more Charles Dickens quotes)
50. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
51. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
52. “The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anaïs Nin
54. “No greater gift there is, than a generous heart.” – Yoda
55. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
56. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
57. “You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
58. “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain
59. “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santanaya
60. “Get to the point where you get allergic to average! You don’t think average!” – Eric Thomas
61. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
62. “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll
63. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
64. “I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.”― Kurt Cobain
65. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
66. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
67. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”― Anne Frank
68. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
69. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
70. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
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71. “Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
72. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
73. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
74. “Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
75. “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – Augustine of Hippo
76. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
78. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
79. “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Edwin Markham
80. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernández
81. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.“ – Eleanor Roosevelt
82. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
83. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.“ – Lance Armstrong
84. “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” – William Blake
85. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens.“ – Helen Keller
86. “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”― Henry David Thoreau
87. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
88. “Begin anywhere.” – John Cage
89. “Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy
90. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lily Pulitzer
91. “Do it Now!” – Napoleon Hill
92. “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” – Elbert Hubbard
93. “No great thing is created suddenly.” —Epictetus
94. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
95. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius
96. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” – Soren Kierkegaard
97. “Man doesn’t know what he is capable of until he is asked.” – Kofi Annan
98. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” – Dorothy Bernard
99. “Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
100. “Live your dreams.” – Les Brown
101. “The true vocation of man is to find his way for himself.” – Hermann Hesse
102. “A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.” – Mahatma Gandhi
103. “No wind favors he who has no destined port.” —Montaigne
104. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
105. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
106. “To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” – Albert Camus
107. “Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle
108. “People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
109. “A clever man commits no minor blunders.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
110. “Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
111. “If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.” – Kendrick Lamar
112. “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”– George Horace Lorimer
113. “All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
114. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra
115. “Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh
116. “Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint.”― Miguel Ruiz
117. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”― Moliere
118. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
119. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
120. “Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself.” – Adriana Lima
121. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
122. “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
– Walt Whitman
123. “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko
124. “With our thoughts, we make the world.” – Buddhist proverb
125. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
126. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle
127. “Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?” – Kendrick Lamar
128. “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo
129. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
130. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
131. “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schiuller
132. “Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”– Bangambiki Habyarimana
133. “I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” – Harvey Specter
134. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”– Tony Robbins
135. “Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” – Nike
136. “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”– Marcus Washling
137. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
138. “Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols
139. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins
140. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
141. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
142. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
143. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
144. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
145. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
146. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
147. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
148. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
149. “May you live every day of your life.”― Jonathan Swift
150. “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” – Roy T. Bennett