Success Quotes by Famous People

At some point in life everyone needs inspiration or self motivation to boost their confidence level and achieve their goals. On the way to our aspired destination, we come across various obstacles that lower our self-esteem and take success few steps away from us.

Though these ups and downs are part of life and are temporary, to regain our confidence levels sometimes inspirational quotations by famous people can do wonders for us. Therefore, here are some great quotes from all walks of life who have been there and done things that may give us the inspiration we'll require to keep moving toward our dreams.

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory."
~ Cicero

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."
~ Euripides

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
~ Robert Collier

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
~ Aristotle Onassis

"The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance."
~ Owen Feltham

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

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody."
~ Herbert Bayard Swope

"Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time."
~ Josh Billings

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
~ Jospeph Addison

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
~ Maya Angelou

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
~ Henry Ford

"Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another."
~ Richard Bach

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."
~ Vincent Lombardi

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
~ Jesse Jackson

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
~ George Bernard Shaw

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
~ Lewis Carroll

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
~ Thomas à Kempis

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice."
~ Steven D. Woodhull

"Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day."
~ Albert Camus

"Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
~ Jim Rohn

"See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little."
~ Pope John XXIII

"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?"
~ Coleman Cox

"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
~ William James

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
~ Leo Aikman

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
~ Jonathan Kozel

Hope the aforementioned success quotes by famous people will empower your pursuit of greatness and success. These people have achieved extraordinary accomplishments in their lives, and with their words of wisdom and talents, they'll surely bring a positive difference in your life. All the best!