161+ Best Quotes For Your Life Coaching Business [2024]

Updated: January 19th, 2023

Looking for inspirational quotes for your life coaching business?

Whether you’re looking for motivation, a witty instagram caption, or something to win over your team and customers, we have you covered.

We put together a list of 161+ best quotes for your life coaching business [2024].

Here they are:

161+ Best Quotes For Your Life Coaching Business [2024]

Inspirational Quotes

“Content is really powerful, but it does require patience.” – Anthony Tumbiolo, founder of Service Based Businesses

“I try to only speak about the things I know and go into depth on those topics. I don’t want to just be some guru speaking about things I really have no idea about just to try and make some money.” – Anthony Tumbiolo, founder of Service Based Businesses

“It's often a multi-touchpoint process that makes someone convert. They might find me on Twitter, read an article, then listen to a podcast, and the newsletter ends up converting them.” – Anthony Tumbiolo, founder of Service Based Businesses

“The only way to build a lasting business was to provide value to people by solving the most pressing challenges in their lives for them.” – Zack Arnold, founder of Optimize Yourself

“Sometimes, people admire me when I tell them I’m 22 years old but some others just doubt my skills and the quality of my work due to my age. I believe in both cases the best is to prove people with the quality of your work and let results speak instead” – Sinem Günel, founder of Personal Growth Base

“Find a mentor (or two) who are already where you want to be in a few years. There’s nothing more powerful than learning from someone who already walked the path.” – Sinem Günel, founder of Personal Growth Base

“You can quickly scale a company if you have the right resources and you provide a service that businesses genuinely need.” – Iman Gadzhi, founder of Grow Your Agency

“Many people run off to college only to postpone commercial value they can already be producing. And they get into massive debt doing so. You don’t need a piece of paper to validate your worth.” – Iman Gadzhi, founder of Grow Your Agency

“While we serve all kinds of businesses, we know our sweet spot. Businesses that are currently generating between $500K and $5M per year are our primary target.” – Jim Ackerman, founder of Ascend Marketing, Inc

“Trends come and go, and are out of your control. Momentum is something you can create by focusing on what you want.” – Jay Vics, founder of JVI Mobile Marketing

“Find mentors, coaches, and people who have achieved what you are looking to do and stop being a know-it-all and listen to them. Pay them if you have to. Tiger Woods still has coaches.” – Jay Vics, founder of JVI Mobile Marketing

"Overthinking – the art of creating problems that weren’t even there." – Unknown

“What you feed your mind, will lead your life.”― Kemi Sogunle

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." – Helen Keller

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." -Buddha

"Fear regret more than failure." -Taryn Rose

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -R. Buckminster Fuller

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves." -Mahatma Gandhi

"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." -Walt Disney

“Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.”― Steve Backley

"If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy." -George Matthew Adams

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare they are difficult." -Seneca

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." -Carl Schurz

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." -Henry Ford

“If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.”― Steve Backley

"It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts." -Brian White

“It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.”― Steve Backley

“It is action that creates motivation.”― Steve Backley

"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so." -Doris Lessing

"How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world." -Anne Frank

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." -Frederick B. Wilcox

"Success is not a goal. It’s a choice." ― Sharon Pearson

“Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.”― Steve Backley

“Life's short. Live passionately.”― Marc A. Pitman

“It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.”― Steve Backley

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Things usually turn out better than you think." -Von R Atkinson

Professional Quotes

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." – Henry Ford

"There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them." – Tom Krause

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want." -Brian Tracy

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it…Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -Goethe

"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness." -Les Brown

"No pressure, no diamonds." -Unknown

"If you live your life afraid because you're afraid to live, then you live no life at all." -Unknown

“If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.”― Steve Backley

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." -Mary Kay Ash

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright

“If not you, who?”― Steve Backley

“The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.”― Steve Backley

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." -Aristotle

"Some people are going to reject you simply because you shine too bright for them. That’s okay. Keep shining." -Mandy Hale

"Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

“The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.”― Steve Backley

“The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.”― Steve Backley

“If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.”― Steve Backley

"Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time." -R. Buckminster Fuller

“Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.”― Steve Backley

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." -George Herman "Babe" Ruth

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead

"Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." -Victor Hugo

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke

"Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us." – Earl Nightingale

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." -Art Linkletter

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." -Mary Kay Ash

"It’s not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday." – Unknown

"Life's failures are stepping stones to success." -Unknown

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller

"The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being." -Tully C. Knoles

"That which you persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed, but that your ability to do it has increased!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try." -Mary Kay Ash

"Demand more from yourself than anyone else could ever expect." -Tony Robbins

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.”― Steve Backley

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." -Wilfred Peterson

Life Quotes

"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing." -Dale Carnegie

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first and most important step toward success…is the feeling that we can succeed." – Nelson Boswell

“There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?”― Steve Backley

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." – Gandhi

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." -Robert F. Kennedy

"The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes." -Andrew Harvey

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." -Hanna More

"The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself." – Toni Sorenson

“The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.”― Steve Backley

“See it, feel it, trust it!”― Steve Backley

"Inspiration...Is remembering the future." -©John Cahill

"We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present." -Marianne Williamson

"Identification...is a form of escape from the self." -Krishnamurti

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." – Rikki Rogers

"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness." -M. Esther Harding

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." – Hanna More

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you." – Fred Devito

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." -Albert Einstein

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six 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

"Know yourself and you will win all battles." – Sun Tzu

“Compete like you cannot fail.”― Steve Backley

“You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.”― Steve Backley

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." -Albert Einstein

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

"Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible." -George Leonard

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars." -Jill McLemore

"The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind." -Thoreau

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." -Edmund Burke

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein

"Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision." ― Steve Backley

"The future depends on what we do in the present." -Mahatma Gandhi

"The first and most important step toward success...is the feeling that we can succeed." -Nelson Boswell

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else." -Yogi Berra

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself." -Cicero

"If the plan doesn’t work change the plan, not the goal." – Unknown

"Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace." -Albert Schweitzer

Positive Quotes

"There is no failure, unless we fail to begin, or we fail to continue." ― Christopher Babson

“Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.”― Steve Backley

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other." -Brian Tracy

"Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true." -The Buddha

"The distance between your dreams and reality is called action." – Unknown

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." -Gandhi

"Life’s failures are stepping stones to success." – Unknown

"There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful." -Adrienne Rich

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." -Lao Tzu

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." -Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“Act like a champion, and then become one.”― Steve Backley

"Leap and the net will appear." -Zen Saying

"We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are." – Paulo Coelho

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." -Dale Carnegie

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Perfectionism is a lost cause. Focus your energy on being the best you can be." ― Domonique Bertolucci

"Greatness isn’t found in your comfort zone." ― Sharon Pearson

"What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person." -Quentin Crisp

“Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.”― Steve Backley

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way." -Abraham Lincoln

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." -Goethe

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -W.W. Ziege

"You don’t have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great." – Les Brown

"“I will try” has performed wonders." – George P. Burnham

"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility." -Dennis Weaver

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." -Earl Nightingale

"To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!" -Sasha Azevedo

“Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.”― Steve Backley

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France

"No one knows what he can do till he tries." -Publilius Syrus

"The thing always happens that you really believe in;and the belief in a thing makes it happen." -Frank Lloyd Wright

""I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders." -George P. Burnham

"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer." -Barbara de Angelis

“Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.”― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." -Leonardo Da Vinci

“Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.”― Steve Backley

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