If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
— Madam C. J. Walker
Whopping Motivational Success quotations
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity.
But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.
The time will pass anyway.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal;
you do not change your decision to get there.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion.
For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius;
all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The future depends on what we do in the present
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.