50 Inspirational Quotes for Ambitious Lawyers

 If you've been doing the same things and haven't gotten the results you want from your practice, these notable quotes will spark ideas that get you in motion. As they say, "Success leaves footprints" – why re-invent the wheel?

1. Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. – Jim Rohn
2. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. – Napoleon Hill
3. You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle. – William Randolph Hearst
4. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese proverb
5. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
6. Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. – Jimmy Spithill
7. Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. ― Napoleon Hill 
8. Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. – Jim Rohn
9. 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
10. Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. ― Napoleon Hill
11. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. – Chinese proverb
12. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray
13. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. – Tony Robbins
14. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. – Jim Rohn 
15. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. – Beverly Sills
16. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it. – Kim Garst
18. Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. – Jim Rohn
19. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. – Norman Vincent Peale
20. Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life. – Harvey Mackay
21. Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. – Franklin Roosevelt
22. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. – Jim Rohn
23. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
24. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
25. 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
    
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26. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
27. Either you run the day or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
28. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley 
29. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. ― Napoleon Hill
30. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
31. 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
32. There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. – Jason Fried
33. 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
34. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. – Richard Branson
35. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. – Howard Schultz  
36. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
37. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. – Reid Hoffman
38. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. John Maxwell
39. Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
40. 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's winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that's why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
41. A goal is a dream with a deadline. ― Napoleon Hill
42. Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom. – Jim Rohn 
43. It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you. – Jason Cohen
44. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. – Jeff Bezos
45. If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. – Ray Kroc
46. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing and the next best thing is the wrong thing–the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt
47. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. – Zig Ziglar
48. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu
49. When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength. – Jack Ma
50. The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. – David Ogilvy