Success Quotes: Even More Quotations To Keep You Motivated

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You can never read enough uplifting success quotes. They're great inspiration for keeping you motivated and inspired to work toward and accomplish whatever dreams you may have for your life.

What's important is to keep the vision of what you want in front of you, always striving for a better place. Don't let distractions or depressing thoughts side-track your dreams.

Learn from any and all mistakes that you may make along the way, but do not get discouraged by them. Remember, a mistake is not wrong, it's just a way to help you understand that you need to rethink your approach.

Continue to read not only success quotes, but choose books and articles that help to enlighten and inspire your inner thoughts and sub-conscious desires.

This page is part 2 of a series of success quotes. Additional quotations can be found on the following pages:

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."

~Satchel Paige (1906 – 1982)
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American baseball player who pitched in several different black leagues (leagues comprising predominantly African-American teams) and in Major League Baseball. A right-hand pitcher, his career spanned from mid-1920s until 1965.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

~Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
Edison was a businessman and a prolific American inventor. Holding 1,093 U.S. patents (along with patents in other countries), he invented many devices during his lifetime. The ones that we are most familiar with, and which he is most famous for, are the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.

"Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver."

~Tom Peters (born November 7, 1942)
Peters is an American writer and expert on business management practices. He is best-known for co-writing the classic book, "In Search of Excellence," with Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimisim a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

~Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
Lucille Ball was one of America's most favorite actresses and had one of Hollywood's longest acting careers. As a comedienne and actress, she's most well-known for her sitcom television series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. She was a major movie star from the 1930s to the 1970s, and appeared on television for more than 30 years.

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)
Famous for writing "Paul Revere's Ride", Longfellow, an American poet, and was one of the five members of a group of 19th-century American poets from New England known as the Fireside Poets.

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

~George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885 - 1945)
Patton was a famous U.S. Army general during World War II. He comes from a long line of soldiers dating back to the American Revolution. His nickname was "Old blood and guts".

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

~Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and is considered the father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. Ford revolutionized transportation with his invention of the Model-T automobile introduced on October 1, 1908. Horse-drawn carriages soon became a thing of the past.

"Propserity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want."

~Geoffrey F. Abert (1079 - 1142)
Not much information is available about this man other than he was a French philosopher and priest.

"If you're not failing every now and then, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

~Woody Allen (1935 - )
Born Allen Stewart Königsberg, he is a well-known actor, jazz musician, comedian, playwright, writer, and American film director.

"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

~Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Born Marguerite Ann Johnson, she is an African-American woman who was an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. A poet, memoirist, dancer, producer, playwright, director, author, and actress, Angelou was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal in 2001.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit."

"For what is the best choice? For each individual, it is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

~Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
Among the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers, along with Plato and Socrates. He was actually a student of Plato, and became a teacher of Alexander the Great.

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

~Demosthenes (384 – 322)
He was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens who provide a thorough insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC.

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

~Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Dr. Johnson, as we was often called by, was one of England's best known literary figures. As an an essayist, biographer, lexicographer, and a critic of English Literature, he also possessed great wit as a prose stylist who was well known for his aphorisms.

"There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

~Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 – 1957)
Morely was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet in the first part of the 20th century. He was one of the founders and a long-time contributing editor of the "Saturday Review of Literature."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Famous American author, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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