Inspirational quotes have an amazing ability to motivate others and change the way we feel about ourselves. This is why I find them so interesting and crucial on our paths to success. The way you think and feel about yourself, including your beliefs and expectations about what is possible for you, determines everything that happens to you. When you change the quality of your thinking, you change the quality of your life, sometimes instantly. Everyone needs some inspiration, and these motivational quotes will give you the edge you need to create your success. So read on and let them inspire you.

50. "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." --Anonymous

49. "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne

48. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein

47. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --Anonymous

46. "Do one thing every day that scares you." --Anonymous

45. "What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable." --Anonymous

44. "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --Lolly Daskal

43. "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent." --Anonymous

42. "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." --Anonymous

41. "Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." --Anonymous

40. "You can do anything, but not everything. --Anonymous

39. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." --Steve Jobs

38. "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

37. "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life." --A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

36. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." --Thomas Jefferson

35. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." --Napoleon Hill

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

33. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." --Thomas J. Watson

32. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." --Michael John Bobak

31. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." --Philippos

30. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain

29. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo Picasso

28. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we
recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar

27. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." --Earl Nightingale

26. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon

25. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. " --Les Brown

24. "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." --Martha Stewart

23. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." --Anonymous

22. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." --Colin R. Davis

21. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader

20. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." --Maya Angelou

19. "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." --Bill Gates

18. "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." --Henry Kravis

17. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." --Mark Caine

16. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." --Tony Robbins

15. "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." --Audre Lorde

14. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain

13. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee

12. "There is no traffic jam along the extra mile." --Roger Staubach

11. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." --Dale Carnegie

10. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." --Jim Rohn

9. "If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient." --Gurbaksh Chahal

8. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." --Robert Kiyosaki

7. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" --T. Harv Eker

6. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." --Steve Jobs

5. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." --Robert Frost

4. "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." --Napoleon Hill

3. "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." --Denis Waitley

2. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." --Jane Smiley

1. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." --George Bernard Shaw