Which are your favorite business quotes?

It’s time to inspire the next generation of fresh and innovative entrepreneurs!

So in the spirit of 2020, I’ve compiled a list of 101 inspirational business quotes to keep every entrepreneur out there inspired this year.

There are some amazing quotes on this list, including some from people like Warren Buffet, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuck, Maya Angelou, and Robert Kiyosaki.

101 Inspirational Business Quotes

I’ve grouped the list by individuals, listing all their quotes in one go if they have 2 or more inspirational business quotes featured on the list. Anybody who has just one quote featured on the list is in the ‘Miscellaneous’ section at the end, followed by the ‘Unknown’ section.

Any picture quotes included within the mix are bonuses! Don’t forget to share the list with your followers and friends on social media!

Gary Vaynerchuck

1. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuck

2. “Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.” – Gary Vaynerchuck

Richard Branson

3. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson

4. “Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.” – Richard Branson

Warren Buffet

5. “”You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett

6. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett

Oprah Winfrey

7. “”I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

8. “There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” – Oprah Winfrey

Henry David Thoreau

9. “Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau

10. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

Thomas Watson

11. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas Watson

12. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson

Seth Godin

13. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is.” – Seth Godin

14. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin

15. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin

16. “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.” – Seth Godin

17. “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.” – Seth Godin

Jim Rohn

18. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn

19. “Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.” – Jim Rohn

20. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

Zig Ziglar

21. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” – Zig Ziglar

22. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar

Robert Kiyosaki

23. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

24. “In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.” – Robert Kiyosaki

25. “Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.” – Robert Kiyosaki

26. “Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.” – Robert Kiyosaki

27. “The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.” – Robert Kiyosaki

Steve Jobs

28. “If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.” – Steve Jobs

29. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

30. “If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.” – Steve Jobs

31. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs

 Jeff Bezos

32. “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” – Jeff Bezos

33. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.” – Jeff Bezos

34. “I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.” – Jeff Bezos

35. “The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.” – Jeff Bezos

Bill Gates

36. “Most of our competitors were one-product wonders … They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.” – Bill Gates

37. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

38. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

Henry Ford

39. “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford

40. “There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” – Henry Ford

41. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

42. “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.” – Henry Ford

Farrah Gray

43. “You know, you don’t have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don’t need a college degree, you just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.” – Farrah Gray

44. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

Maya Angelou

45. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

46. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou

47. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou

Walt Disney

48. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

49. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

50. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney

51. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney

52. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney

53. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” – Walt Disney

Winston Churchill

54. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill

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

56. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

57. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

Miscellaneous Business Quotes

58. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

59. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

60. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

61. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

62. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson 

63. “Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.” – Francis Gray

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

65. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

66. “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie

67. “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” – Henry J. Kaiser

68. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley

69. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

70. “We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy.” – Dr. Henry Link

71. “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.” – James Goldsmith

72. “One finds limits by pushing them.” – Herbert Simon

73. “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

74. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

75. “Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

76. “My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner

77. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

Miscellaneous Business Quotes (78-85)

78. “For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.” – Bill O’ Reilly

79. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump

80. “To think is easy, to act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

81. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth

82. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

83. “Business in a combination of War and sport.” – Andre Maurois

84. “Surviving a failure gives you more self–confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum.” – Jeffrey Immelt

85. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller

Miscellaneous Business Quotes (86-97)

86. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” – Aristotle

87. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi

88. “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett

89. “Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.” – Oscar Wilde

90. “Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi

91. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz

92. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

93. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

94. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

95. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

96. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

97. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth

Unknown Business Quotes

98. “Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” – Unknown

99. “For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake.” – Unknown

100. “Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.” – Unknown

101. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” – Unknown

Summary

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Which were your favorite inspirational business quotes featured? Leave a comment below.

Which are your favorite sales quotes? 

Sales;

The world revolves around sales. We live and breathe in the stuff. Selling isn’t easy, and there’s a lot of science that goes into becoming a top record-smashing salesperson.

In tough times when sales are struggling, we can all become very de-motivated, and that’s when it calls for some quotes to life your spirits.

I’ve searched the web and compiled a huge list of the 101 best sales quotes of the day. Check out these motivational sales quotes and share them with all the other entrepreneurs and grinders out there.

101 Best Sales Quotes of All Time

1. “Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.” – Michael Korda

2. “So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.” – Dorothea Brande

3. “Begin by always expecting good things to happen.” – Tom Hopkins

4. “The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.”
– Napoleon Hill

5. “Some men see things as they are and ask why…I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” – Robert Kennedy

6. “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti

7. “Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.” – Don Cooper

8. “Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.” – Michael Schudson

9. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour day.” – Zig Ziglar

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10. “Success in sales is the result of discipline, dedication and sacrifice.” – Thomas Roy Cromwell

11. “You don’t close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.” – Patricia Fripp

12. “A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.” – Jeff Koons

13. “Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera

14. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey

15. “McDonald’s is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.” – Jim Cantalupo

16. “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.” – Bob Burg

17. “One of the best predictors of ultimate success … isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.” – Daniel H. Pink

18. “Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar

19. “To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.” – Ben Jonson

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20. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” – Anonymous

21. “Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” – William Bernbach

22. “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.” – John Mason

23. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

24. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” – Brian Tracy

25. “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.” – Zig Ziglar

26. “A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.” – Wilson Mizner

27. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Robert Buxton

28. “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford

29. “Most people think “selling” is the same as “talking”. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.” – Roy Bartell

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30. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

31. “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” – Napoleon Hill

32. “The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.” – Jill Konrath

33. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar

34. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

35. “Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise.” – Anonymous

36. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity of more business.” – Zig Ziglar

37. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Abraham Lincoln

38. “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” – Jill Konrath

39. “There is always room at the top.” – Daniel Webster

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40. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

41. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

42. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton

43. “To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.” – Harvey Mackay

44. “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

45. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers

46. “Stop selling. Start helping.” – Zig Ziglar

47. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Marvin Phillips

48. “The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.” – J. G. Holland

49. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” – Estée Lauder

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50. “Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” – Karl Marx

51. “Timid salesmen have skinny kids.” – Zig Ziglar

52. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar

53. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi

54. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” – Jim Cathcart

55. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

56. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

57. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

58. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

59. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” – George S. Patton

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60. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

61. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” – Norman Ralph Augustine

62. “”You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

63. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” – Yogi Berra

64. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napolean Hill

65. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi

66. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

67. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” – Christopher Morley

68. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

69. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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70. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

71. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

72. “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” – Mary Kay Ash

73. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone

74. “I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.” – Jeffrey R. Immelt

75. “The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.” – Zig Ziglar

76. “In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.” – Bo Bennet

77. “I don’t do this for the money, I don’t do it for record sales, I don’t really care about that, I just want to make beats.” – David Guetta

78. “Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can’t wait for it to be more than 50%.” – Anne M. Mulcahy

79. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

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80. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

81. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein

82. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand

83. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

84. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

85. “Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” – Philip Sydney

86. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

87. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard

88. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

89. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” – Napoleon Hill

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90. “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.” – Robert W. Service

91. “As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.” – Al Yankovic

92. “One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn’t right. That mattered even over sales.” – Ines de La Fressange

93. “As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you’ll need to get involved in enterprise sales. Everyone wants to speak to the founder, and this is also how you’ll get feedback on your product. It’s worth bringing in early somebody with enterprise sales experience.” – Anthony Goldbloom

94. “To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.” – Ben Horowitz

95. “Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.” – John Caudwell

96. “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas A. Edison

97. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

98. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

99. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

100. “I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.” – Mia Hamm

101. “Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.” – Christopher Reeve

Summary

Thanks for reading this list of great sales quotes. Keep on grinding and working hard. Hopefully, these have given you the motivation to do just that.

Which of the best sales quotes of the day is your favorite? Leave a comment below.

Which are your favorite sports quotes? 

For aspiring athletes, the motivation to keep on pushing and never give up is incredibly important.

After writing up an article on the top 100 gym motivation videos earlier in the week, I’ve decided to keep the motivation rolling and provided another article that can serve as a great source of motivation for athletes.

And who better to look to for motivation than other professional athletes themselves. I’ve compiled a list of the greatest sports quotes by famous athletes.

This article highlights some incredible quotes from famous athletes such as Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter, Vince Lombardi, and Michael Jordan.

Take a look and please share the article on Facebook and Twitter if you enjoyed it!

For any athlete that has more than one quote listed here, I’ve split their name into a separate section. Any famous athletes that have just one quote listed are featured in the miscellaneous section towards the bottom of the article.

Enjoy the motivation!

50 Greatest Sports Quotes by Famous Athletes

Michael Phelps

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

“If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.” – Michael Phelps

Kobe Bryant

“I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.” – Kobe Bryant

“I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.” – Kobe Bryant

“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” – Kobe Bryant

Michael Jordan

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.” – Michael Jordan

Michael Johnson

“As an athlete, I’d average 4 hours a day. It doesn’t sound like a lot when some people say they’re training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and break. My four hours was packed with work.” – Michael Johnson

“You can’t control what the other athlete; you can’t control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.” – Michael Johnson

Muhammad Ali

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, don’t quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” – Muhammad Ali

Ray Lewis

“Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a way to get better.” – Ray Lewis

“Greatness is a lot of small things done well.” – Ray Lewis

“Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.” – Ray Lewis

“No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.” – Ray Lewis

Derek Jeter

“You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun.” – Derek Jeter

“I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.” – Derek Jeter

“When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.” – Derek Jeter

Floyd Mayweather

“I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.” – Floyd Mayweather

“It’s about having personality…it’s not about being the bad guy, it’s about entertaining people.” – Floyd Mayweather

Vince Lombardi

“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

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

Usain Bolt 

“I’ve learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I’m gonna do after the race, what I’m gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.” – Usain Bolt

“Don’t think about the start of the race, think about the ending.” – Usain Bolt

Wayne Gretzky

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.” – Wayne Gretzky

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

Miscellaneous

“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Matt Biondi

“Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” – Satchel Paige

“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” – Pat Riley

“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” – Ross Perot

“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.” – Bruce Jenner

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” – Hank Aaron

“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.” – Homer Rice

“If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.” – Carl Lewis

“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young

“You’re never a loser until you quit trying.” – Mike Ditka

 “It’s better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low.” – Bill Nicholson

“When you see a good move, look for a better one.” – Emanuel Lasker

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” – Ted Williams

Thanks for checking out the article guys and girls. Being a professional athlete is incredibly tough. It requires constant training, hard work, and dedication to the sport. Every now and then, it can become hard to keep up the momentum.

You get tired, de-motivated, and struggle to continuously give it your all.

Quotes are my go-to source for motivation along with motivational videos, and hopefully, some of the greatest sports quotes on this list by famous athletes will give you the strength you need.

As always, STAY MOTIVATED, go out there and kill it!

Which are your favorite quotes by famous athletes? Leave a comment below.