The 15 Most Inspiring Quotes for Success and Motivation

We all experience moments of self-doubt, low energy, or lost motivation. It’s normal. But often, all it takes to reignite your inner fire is a few powerful words from those who’ve been there and conquered it all.

Here at F5 Hiring Solutions, we believe motivation is the first step to success — whether you’re building your career or your business. That’s why we’ve compiled the top 15 most inspiring quotes for success and motivation to help you get back on track:

15 Famous Quotes to Spark Success & Motivation

“Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
– Brian Tracy

“If you want to be truly successful, invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere, your success will blossom.”
– Sydney Madwed

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
– Pele

“People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”
– John C. Maxwell

“We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist.”
– Wayne Dyer

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
– Thomas Edison

“The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
– Michelangelo

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”
– Anonymous

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”
– Proverb

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
– David Brinkley

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