Discover 63 powerful and motivational quotes about success and life from famous leaders. Get inspired and uplifted to achieve your goals with these timeless quotes.

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

2. “First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle

3. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

4. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

5. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

6. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

7. “With great power comes great responsibility.” – Stan Lee

8. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

9. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

10. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

11. “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” – John F. Kennedy

12. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain.” – Henry Ford

13. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

14. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn

15. “It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

16. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

17. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

18. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

19. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

20. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

21. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

22. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

23. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

24. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

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

26. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi

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

28. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

29. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

31. “Need some words of encouragement? Look no further than these famous quotes from some of the greatest leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all time.

32. “Beyond that, I’ve found that these quotes are so famous that they then tend to pop up in daily life. I’ve found myself nodding along and feeling assured when I know the person who said the words first. If you’re looking to know where a truism came from, you can check them out below.

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34. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

36. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

37. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

38. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar

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

40. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” – J.M. Power

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

43. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama

44. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

47. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

48. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas

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

50. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

51. “To be successful, you have to be selfish, or else you will never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish.” – Michael Jordan

52. “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” – Nikola Tesla

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

54. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

55. “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” – Abraham Lincoln

56. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

57. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey

58. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson

59. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal

60. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

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

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

63. “In playing ball and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.” – Hank Aaron