Top Inspirational Quotes to achieve greatness

Inspirational words can help you to change your thinking and become more successful. They can also give you strength through your bad times. Here is a collection of top 10 inspirational quotes and motivational quotes from great people. Read what the greatest minds have to tell you. learn and Share these inspirational messages in your connections.

1. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
2. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
3. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. –  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
4. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
5. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Elliot
6. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. – Buddha
7. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. 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. – Nora Roberts
9. There is nothing to hold your negative feelings in place other than your own thinking. The next time you’re feeling upset, notice your thinking—it will be negative. Remind yourself that it’s your thinking that is negative, not your life. – Richard Carlson
10. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
11. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.– Dennis P. Kimbro
12. The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.– Oliver Wendell Holmes 
13. The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.– Vince Lombardi
14. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.– Ralph Waldo Emerson 
15. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.– Lao Tzu
16. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.– Joshua J. Marine 
17. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.– Mark Twain
18. I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.– Albert Einstein 
19. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill 
20. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone 
21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs 
22. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey 
23. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
24. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
25. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle 
26. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
27. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon 
28. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle 
29. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
30. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci