30 motivational phrases to achieve success

Determination, effort and focus are fundamental to face a path to success

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31/03/2022 18:00Updated on 03/31/2022 6:22 PM

There are many people who have reached the peak of professional success or who have studied what are the qualities and aptitudes that people gather to succeed. Determination, effort and concentration are fundamental. These are 30 famous phrases that invite reflection.

1. Impossible is just a word uttered by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a statement. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. Muhammad Ali.
2. The goal is not always meant to be achieved, it often serves simply as a goal to aim for. Bruce Lee.
3. Be practical and generous with your ideas. Keep your eyes on the stars but remember to keep your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt.
4. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. Pablo Picasso.
5. You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream. CS. Lewis.
6. Either we are victims or we are creators of our reality. Joe Dispenza.
7. Every success story is a story of constant adaptation, revision and change. Richard Branson.
8. Few things are as disappointing as devoting all your time and energy to climbing a mountain and discovering upon reaching the top that it was the wrong mountain. Robin Sharma.
9. By avoiding the problems you need to face, you avoid the life you need to live. Paulo Coelho.
10. Put the heart, mind and soul into even the smallest acts. That's the secret to success. Swami Sivananda.
11. If we have a goal and a plan, and we are willing to take risks, mistakes and work as a team, we can choose to do the hard part. Scott Kelly.
12. The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you found yourself why. Mark Twain.
13. Only those who are so crazy as to think they can change the world are able to truly change it. Steve Jobs.
14. A person should set their goals as soon as possible and devote all their energy and talent to get there. Walt Disney.
15. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, thinking about it too much. You have to go down the ramp. Tina Fey.
16. Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. Albert Einstein.
17. If you are not stubborn, you will surrender to experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll bang your head against the wall and you won't see a solution other than a problem you're trying to solve. Jeff Bezos.
18. The question I ask myself almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I can?' Mark Zuckerberg.
19. I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if you feel uncomfortable at the time. Michael Phelps.
20. Everyone's dream can come true if you limit yourself to it and work hard. Serena Williams.
21. It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela.
22. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill.
23. I have not failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. Thomas Edison.
24. Instead of looking to the past, I go ahead twenty years and try to see what I need to do now to get there. Diana Ross.
25. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall.
26. The only limit to the height of your achievements is the scope of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. Michelle Obama.
27. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earkhart.
28. Before I would die of passion than of boredom. Vincent van Gogh.
29. Some failures in life are inevitable. It's impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you failed by default. J.K. Rowling.
30. If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it. Elon Musk.

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