In this article you can find super motivational quotes for success by famous people.

List contains super motivational quotes for life by well-known people like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pablo Picasso, Napoleon Hill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bertrand Russell, Mark Twain, Rumi, Vince Lombardi, Steve Jobs and many others.

In a way they are simple positive quotes to get strength in life. These deep motivational quotes are very useful to apply for both life and work. This collection of short inspirational quotes will give you a thought process to know where you are and what is it you need to do to move towards success.

Super Motivational and Encouraging Positive Quotes

1. If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Herman Hesse

2. The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King, Jr

3. You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown. – Frank Gehry

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

5. When the going gets tough the tough get going. – Joseph P. Kennedy

6. Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – Heywood Broun

7. Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso

8. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

9. Creativity means believing you have greatness. – Wayne Dyer

10. All of us can create if we allow ourselves to. – Natalie Goldberg

11. People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Only through suffering can we find ourselves. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

13. The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser

14. People empty me. I have to get away to refill. – Charles Bukowski

15. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. – Goethe

16. Every thought we think is creating our future. – Louise Hay

17. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

18. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Bertrand Russell

19. Everything is a once in a lifetime experience. – Kobi Yamada

20. What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. – Bruce Lee

21. He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

22. I cured with the power that came through me. – Black Elk

23. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

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

25. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach

26. Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

27. Do what you must, And your friends will adjust. – Robert Brault

28. Mirrors lie. They don’t show you what’s inside. – Anonymous

29. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. – Plato

30. Compassion is the chief law of human existence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

31. Search for contentment in each person you meet. – Steve Maraboli

32. Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. – Abraham Maslow

33. I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

34. An apology is a good way to have the last word. – Anonymous

35. To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. – Bodhidharma

36. Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. – Pierre Corneille

37. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Maria Mitchell

38. If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go. – Joseph Campbell

39. Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. – Liv Tyler

40. Art starts alone – and convinces society later. – Douglas Davis

41. You are the only one that creates your reality. – Rhonda Byrne

42. I can live for two months on a good compliment. – Mark Twain

43. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

44. Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone. – Gertrude Stein

45. Trust yourself, you will start to trust others. – Santosh Kalwar

46. Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness. – Eckhart Tolle

47. Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. – Cicero

48. For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. – Mirza Ghalib

49. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

50. To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go. – Lao Tzu

51. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

52. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Anonymous

53. My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. – Steve Jobs

54. When life comes at you, come back twice as hard. – Anonymous

55. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. – Anonymous

56. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. – Robert Fripp

57. Live today, for tomorrow it will all be history. – Anonymous

58. I love those random memories that make me smile. – Anonymous

59. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. – Stephen R. Covey

60. He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin

61. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell

62. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron

63. Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment. – Rumi

64. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle

65. When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT. – Rhonda Byrne

66. Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. – Samuel Johnson

67. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. – William Blake

68. In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker

69. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert H. Schuller

70. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. – William Shakespeare

71. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering

72. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. – Abraham Lincoln

73. Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. – Robert H. Schuller

74. If you ship doesn’t come in; swim out to meet it. – Jonathan Winters

75. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki

76. Life has no limitations except the ones you make. – Anonymous

77. All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. – Steve Martin

78. We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. – Vince Lombardi

79. The road to success is always under construction. – Lily Tomlin

80. The mind needs exercise as much as the body does. – John Morgan

81. Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. – James Hillman

82. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. – Ayn Rand

83. It is never too late to give up your prejudices. – Henry David Thoreau

84. There is no coming to consciousness without pain. – Carl Jung

85. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. – Socrates

86. If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie

87. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. – William Congreve

88. Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

89. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. – W. Clement Stone

90. We can’t be creative if we refuse to be confused. – Margaret Wheatley

91. Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force. – Prentice Mulford

92. Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. – Henry David Thoreau

93. He who does not trust enough will not be trusted. – Laozi

94. Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi

95. If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. – Seth Godin

96. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

97. When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. – Henry J. Kaiser

98. God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers. – Jewish proverb

99. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

100. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. – The Bible

101. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

102. This is your world. Shape it or someone else will. – Gary Lew

103. Instead of competing, all we have to do is create. – Earl Nightingale

104. You create your opportunities by asking for them. – Shakti Gawain

105. The soul’s bliss and suffering are bound together. – Jane Kenyon

106. Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. – Stephen R. Covey

107. Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. – Jacques Delille

108. It’s not forgetting that heals. It’s remembering. – Amy Greene

109. Healing yourself is connected with healing others. – Yoko Ono

110. To understand everything is to forgive everything. – Buddha

111. You were born to be an original. Don’t die a copy. – John Mason

112. If you want results, then work like you want them. – Anonymous

113. A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

114. There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh

115. The most important thing about goals is having one. – Geoffry F. Abert

116. Be content to act; and leave the talking to others. – Baltasa

117. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. – Erich Fromm

118. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – George S. Patton

119. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. – Phyllis Diller

120. Never regret something that once made you smile. – Chinese Proverb

121. Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless. – Goethe

122. The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato

123. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. – Karen Kaiser Clark

124. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. – Aristotle

125. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. – Jack Canfield

126. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. – Buddha

127. The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. – Emily Dickenson

128. How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom. – Hakuin

129. The future is uncertain but the end is always near. – Jim Morrison

130. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

131. The core of my personality consists of many selves. – Hans Bender

132. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

133. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock

134. Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. – Orison Swett Marden

135. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

136. Dancing my dance, let others say whatever they like. – Anonymous

137. Start every day with a smile and get it over with. – W.C. Fields

138. The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. – Anonymous

139. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. – Edward de Bono

140. Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. – Earl Nightingale

141. Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. – Eric Butterworth

142. To look at a thing is very different from seeing it. – Oscar Wilde

143. It only takes one person to change your life – you. – Ruth Casey

144. Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. – Max Planck

145. The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. – Alexandra Stoddard

146. Live out of your imagination instead of your memory. – Les Brown

147. To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. – Anatole France

148. Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge. – Abraham Heschel

149. Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. – E. B. White

150. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese Proverb

151. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung

152. Problems can only exist if they have your attention. – Michael Beckwith

153. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. – Richard Bach

154. Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme. – Gardening Saying

155. Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. – Charles Schwab

156. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

157. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. – Kurt Cobain

158. Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. – Dodinsky

159. Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. – Robin Sharma

160. A champion is someone who gets up even when he can’t. – Jack Dempsey

161. The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. – Alan Saporta

162. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Kevin Durant

163. To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst. – Wilson Kanadi

164. We fall in love BY CHANCE. We stay in love BY CHOICE. – Anonymous

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

166. Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. – Benjamin Franklin

167. Drawing is a door to discovering your own creativity. – Jonathan Milne

168. Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing. – Kathryn Murray

169. Abundance is about being rich, with or without money. – Suze Orman

170. We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

171. If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude. – Amy Tan

172. I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

173. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately. – Rhonda Byrne

174. The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. – Henepola Gunaratana

175. If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev

176. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – Anonymous

177. There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery. – Jeff Bezos

178. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud

179. Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. – Petryl Hsieh

180. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. – Kevin Kruse

181. The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing. – Socrates

182. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

183. Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. – Thich Nhat Hanh

184. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

185. Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? – A Course in Miracles

186. Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. – Wayne Dyer

187. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

188. All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities. – Sir Ken Robinson

189. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. – Isaac Newton

190. The more boundless your vision, the more real you are. – Deepak Chopra

191. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. – Aristotle

192. Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. – Margaret Mitchell

193. Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival. – Steve Maraboli

194. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. – Tao Te Ching

195. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller

196. Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose hour has come. – Victor Hugo

197. No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. – James Allen

198. Transformation literally means going beyond your form. – Wayne Dyer

199. Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding. – Jacob Bronowski

200. Turn your can’t into a can, and your dream into plan! – Cris Nikolov

201. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

202. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. – Seneca

203. Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. – Allen K. Chalmers

204. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan

205. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

206. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. – Aryeh Frimer

207. You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. – Anonymous

208. The world is a jungle. You either fight or run forever. – Anonymous

209. If at first you don’t succeed skydiving is not for you. – Anonymous

210. Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching. – Anonymous

211. I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style. – Nicole Richie

212. Stay strong, make them wonder how you’re still smiling. – Anonymous

213. I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. – Newyorker

214. Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is. – Mason Cooley

215. Don’t apologize for who your are or the art you create. – C.J. Rider

216. Creativity is a process more often than it is an event. – Sir Ken Robinson

217. Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. – Charles Baudelaire

218. People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. – Peter Senge

219. Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension. – Wayne Dyer

220. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

221. It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. – Barry Lopez

222. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop

223. It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

224. You will never find time for anything. You must make it. – Charles Buxton

225. Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

227. I am not crazy. My reality is just different than yours. – Anonymous

228. Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. – John Wayne

229. Dare to be different. The world is full of the ordinary. – Anonymous

230. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

231. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. – Alexander Graham Bell

232. One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. – Anonymous

233. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. – Jon Kabat-Zinn

234. It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. – Jean Nidetch

235. Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction. – Pablo Picasso

236. The earth sets some music going in us and dance we must. – Ludwig Boone

237. It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. – Henri Poincare

238. I’m not the kind of person who gives up without a fight. – Michael Landon

239. What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss. – Joseph Campbell

240. The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

241. Control of consciousness determines the quality of life. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

242. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. – Voltaire

243. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. – James Stephens

244. Death is like the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic. – W. H. Auden

245. Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. – Bill Cosby

246. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. – William Ernest Henley

247. Never love anybody who treats you like you are ordinary. – Oscar Wilde

248. It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. – Hans Selye

249. You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. – Booker T. Washington

250. No matter how far you’ve gone on a wrong road, turn back. – Turkish Proverb

251. The successful man is one who had the chance and took it. – Roger Babson

252. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – M. K. Gandhi

253. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

254. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw

255. Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. – Anonymous

256. The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard

257. For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. – Harry F. Banks

258. A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose. – Tom Wilson

259. Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness. – Julia Cameron

260. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. – Pearl S. Buck

261. Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. – Margaret Bonnano

262. Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies. – Thomas Paine

263. Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. – King Charles I

264. The most effective way to manage change is to create it. – Peter F. Drucker

265. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. – Albert Einstein

266. We no longer vibrate to fear when we’re attuned to love. – Frank Whitney

267. Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world. – William James

268. I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least. – Bob Newhart

269. I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. – Lord Byron

270. See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. – Rhonda Byrne

271. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

272. Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

273. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Goethe

274. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. – Pema Chodron

275. He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it. – Pittacus Lore

276. Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. – Anonymous

277. Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. – Jonas Salk

278. Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. – Gail Sheehy

279. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. – Bill Watterson

280. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

281. Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday. – Anonymous

282. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston

283. I want to be your favorite hello and your hardest goodbye. – Anonymous

284. If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree. – Anonymous

285. If you try, you risk failure. If you don’t, you ensure it. – Anonymous

286. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. – William Shakespeare

287. I am not what happened to me. I am what I chose to become. – Carl Jung

288. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. – Edward de Bono

289. Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action. – Warren Bennis

290. Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. – Scott Adams

291. God is not found in places. God is found in consciousness. – Joel Goldsmith

292. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein

293. Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. – Gail Sher

294. Nobody has a money problem – there are only idea problems. – Robert H. Schuller

295. Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process. – Rhonda Britten

296. To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. – William H. Walton

297. If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate. – Ajahn Chah

298. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. – Mahatma Gandhi

299. Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. – Mac Anderson

300. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë