30 Quotes For The Daily Motivation Part 1

Here’s a list of quotes for you, in case you need a motivational boost some day!

Ömer Akyürek
3 min readDec 29, 2015

To become more succesful, one must learn from people who are already there, where you want to be some day. Here is a little collection of quotes from people who became very successful in different areas of life:

About Leadership

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” - Orrin Woodward

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” - John Maxwell

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” - Tony Blair

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” - Rosalynn Carter

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter F. Drucker

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.” - Ronald Reagan

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” - Robert Collier

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” - Albert Einstein

About Self Improvement

“Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered-just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” - Barrie Davenport

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” - Max De Pree

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” - Robert E. Lee

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin

About Success

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

“The best revenge is massive success.” - Frank Sinatra

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” - Nancy D. Solomon

“If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” - Brad Szollose

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” - John F. Kennedy

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” - David Allen

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” - Greg Anderson

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” - Bruce Feirstein

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” - Lao Tzu

“Victory belongs to the most persevering” - Napoleon Bonaparte

About Failure

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas A. Edison

“The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” - Napoleon Hill

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.” - Bruce Lee

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” - Mark Twain

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Ömer Akyürek

Background in economics and marketing. Designer at day, Developer at night. — oemerax.com