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Self-Motivation Quotes About Achieving Success

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how you consistently show up, the choices you make, and the perseverance to overcome failures.
Tony Robbins

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

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Self-Motivation Quotes About Staying Focused

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
LL Cool J

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Donald Riggs

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James Yorke

Self-Motivation Quotes About Building Confidence

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
Swati Sharma

Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.
Christina Grimmie

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
J.M. Barrie

Self-Motivation Quotes About Taking Action

The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

Self-Motivation Quotes About Persevering Through Challenges

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

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

Self-Motivation Quotes About Finding Inner Strength

You are the only one who can limit your greatness. Remember, you are enough.
Unknown

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
Miuccia Prada

Self-Motivation Quotes About Embracing Change

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
John C. Maxwell

The only way to do something great in life is to risk being uncomfortable.
Louis Howes

Self-Motivation Quotes About Setting Goals

Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
Unknown

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

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

Self-Motivation Quotes About Maintaining A Positive Attitude

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

Self-Motivation Quotes About Pushing Past Fear

Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Winston Churchill

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
Japanese Proverb

Fear is the thief of dreams.
Brian Krans

The only way to do it is to do it.
Amelia Earhart

Don't let fear paralyze you.
Sheryl Sandberg

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-Motivation Quotes About Cultivating Resilience

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

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

Self-Motivation Quotes About Harnessing Determination

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

Self-Motivation Quotes About Igniting Passion

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

Passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives.
Unknown

Passion is the fuel that drives the engine of success.
Unknown

Passion is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
Frida Kahlo

Passion is the fire that drives us to express who we really are.
Unknown

Passion is the spark that ignites the flame of creativity.
Unknown

Passion is the energy that keeps us going, that keeps us filled with meaning, and happiness, and excitement, and anticipation.
Unknown

Passion is the driving force behind all great success in life.
Unknown

Self-Motivation Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

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

Self-Motivation Quotes About Creating A Growth Mindset

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.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.
Unknown

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