30 Quotes to Inspire Success in Your Life

Everyone has a passion and a purpose in life, and it’s up to each of us to discover what exactly that is. No one can tell you what it is or who you are. That’s a journey you must take for yourself…Are you bold enough to start?

I was inspired recently by a Katy Perry song. Laugh all you want, sometimes the silliest and most simple of things are what can ignite the hottest flames within ourselves.. For me, a lot of times, I find my solace in music and others, it’s the wisdom I find in inspirational quotes, books and stories of those who have lived and learned before me. (For those who are curious which Katy Perry song that was, it’s called Rise! Look it up! Good stuff!)

I’ve put together a list of my top 30 favorite inspiring quotes (in no particular order) that have helped me in all areas of my life during the highs and the lows…ENJOY!!!

1.) “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ― C.S. Lewis

2.) “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” ― Will Rogers

3.) “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ― OG Mandino

4.) “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

5.) “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” ― Lance Armstrong

6.) “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill

7.) “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” ― Henry Ford

8.) “Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” ― Denis Waitley

9.) “Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.” ― John Wooden

10.) “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ― Confucius

11.) “If you believe it will work out , you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.” ― Wayne Dyer

12.) “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” ― Thomas Carlyle

13.) “If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” ― Les Brown

14.) “Experience is the teacher of all things.” ― Julius Caesar

15.) “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” ― Jillian Michaels

16.) “You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.”  ― Olivia Benson 

17.) “There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” ―Oprah Winfrey

18.) “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”―James Cameron

19.) “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”― T. Roosevelt

20.) “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”―Les Brown

21.) “You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.”― Mae West

22.)  “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

23.) “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” ― Confucius

24.) “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” ― George Herbert

25.) “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin

26.) “The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.” ―  Philip Emeagwali

27.) “All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.”  ― Earl Nightingale

28.) “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”  ― H. G. Wells

29.) “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ― Nelson Mandela

30.)  “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ― Babe Ruth