As 2016 comes to a close, aren’t we all inspired to create a better new year? Here are 100 inspiring quotes to guarantee to make 2017 your best year ever!
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodberry
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.” – Marva Collins
- “The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.” – Jim Rohn
- “When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.” – Aeschylus
- “Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George Smith Patton
- “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” – Sidonie Gabrielle
- “The first recipe of happiness – avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.” – Andre Maurois
- “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E E. Cummings
- “To live happily is an inward power of the soul.” – Aristotle
- “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
- “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”- Sir Winston Churchill
- “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Colin Powell
- “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
- “You’re only as good as the people you hire.” – Ray Kroc
- “Success doesn’t come to you? You go to it.” – Marva Collins
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vincent T. Lombardi
- “So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now, I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.” – Og Mandino
- “There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – N. V. Peale
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.” – Hamilton Holt
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” – Sidney Sheldon
- “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”- Peter F. Drucker
- “Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”- Steuart Henderson Britt
- “The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson, Sr.
- “To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” – J. Paul Getty
- “Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.” – Sir James Dyson
- “Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” -Dale Carnegie
- “Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. ” – Walt Disney
- “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben
- “Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.” – W. Clement Stone
- “It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.” – Isaac Asimov
- “As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
- “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” – Peter Drucker
- “In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.” – William Wordsworth
- “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles Kettering
- “Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.” – Jack Welch
- “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.” – James H. Boren
- “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney
- “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
- “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” – Sophie Kinsella
- “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” – John M. Gottman
- “Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment.”- Mike Van Hoozer
- “There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.” – John Miller,
- “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.” Meg Whitman
- “Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.” – Marilyn Suttle
- “When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.” – Marilyn Suttle
- “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson, Sr.
- “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
- “You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.” – Lee Iacocca
- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.” -Kim Garst
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
- “Have a very good reason for everything you do.” – Laurence Olivier
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
- “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
- “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.” – Seth Godin
- “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” – Lee Iacocca
- “The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
- “If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.” – Bud Wilkinson
- “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
- “To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
- “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump
- “To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.” – Tryon Edwards
- “Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.” – Jeffrey Immelt
- “People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” – Mary Kay Ash
- “Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn
- “If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.” – Isaac Mophatlane
- “The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.” – John Egan
- “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller
- “Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.” – Eliot Wiggington
- “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”- James Thurber
- “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
- “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
- “In all realms of life, it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm.” – Suze Orman