101 retweetable tweets

Getting retweeteded is valuable. Sometimes people retweet information or links but frequently people retweet tweets that are short, compelling, encouraging, and motivational.

I’ve compiled a list of my favorite quotations and prepared them in a format for you to copy and paste and tweet. Each one is about 120 characters or less (including quotation marks and reference) so there’s plenty of room for someone to retweet your name. Where the reference is known, it’s been listed; anonymous quotes have been left blank.

1. “A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”
2. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” -E Burke
3. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Saint Augustine
4. “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.” -D. Rockefeller
5. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” -Benjamin Disraeli
6. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else.” -Lewis Carroll
7. “What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.” -JG Herder
8. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” -Napoleon
9. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
10. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” -Thomas Jefferson
11. “There is no achievement without goals.” -RJ McKaine
12. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” -B Sills
13. “Act as if it were impossible to fail.” -D Brande
14. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” –T Buxton
15. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” -Benjamin Franklin
16. “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.” -William Saroyan
17. “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” -Thomas Edison
18. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” -Harry Golden
19. “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.” -James A. Garfield
20. “There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.” –Gen. MacArthur
21. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” -W Elliott
22. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -Demosthenes
23. “You always pass failure on the way to success.” -Mickey Rooney
24. “We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes.” -RK Milholland
25. “We will either find a way, or make one!” Hannibal
26. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
27. “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” -A Szent-Gyorgyi
28. “Begin with the end in mind.” -Stephen Covey
29. “Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.” -Hans Christian Andersen
30. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison
31. “You create your opportunities by asking for them.” -P Hansen
32. “While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.” -Publilius Syrus
33. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -Sir Francis Bacon
34. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
35. “An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is.”
36. “To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.” -Anna Pavlova
37. “He who dares… Wins!” -British SAS motto
38. “Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” -John Wooden
39. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” -Brian Tracy
40. “When the promise is clear, the price gets easy.” -Jim Rohn
41. “Success equals goals; all else is commentary.” -Brian Tracy
42. “We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.” -Thoreau
43. “The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” –Dale Carnegie
44. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” -Earl Nightingale
45. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” -Epictetus
46. “Only constant self-confrontation of responsibility reaps results.” -Bern Wheeler
47. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” -Yogi Berra
48. “Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star.” Willis Reed
49. “The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.” -Brian Tracy
50. “Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” -Zig Ziglar
51. “Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” –Epictetus
52. “Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.” -Zig Ziglar
53. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” -Norman Vincent Peale
54. “It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.” -Zig Ziglar
55. “Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.” -Brian Tracy
56. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” -Vincent Van Gogh
57. “You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.” -Zig Ziglar
58. “I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” -Pablo Picasso
59. “The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.” –Plutarch
60. “Never mistake activity for achievement.” -John Wooden
61. “This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.” -S Reed
62. “It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.” -Og Mandino
63. “Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.” -Von Goethe
64. “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.” -Kafka
65. “We will either find a way, or make one.” -Hannibal
66. “The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” -Mozart
67. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” -Bruce Lee
68. “If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” -Jack Dixon
69. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” -Brian Tracy
70. “The only way around is through.” Robert Frost
71. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert Francis Kennedy
72. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” ––Muhammad Ali
73. “The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” -Winston Churchill
74. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
75. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” -Henry David Thoreau
76. “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” -Roger Bannister
77. “Success is the result of countless failures you’ve done in order to attain it.” -MAA Corrales
78. “A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.”
79. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” -George Bernard Shaw
80. “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” -Thomas Edison
81. “I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.” -HJ Browne
82. “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” -Victor Frankl
83. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” -Helen Keller
84. “Underpromise; overdeliver.” -Tom Peters
85. “The success of us human beings remains in how far we can see ourselves & work backwards to reach there.” -A Kerkar
86. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” -Tommy Lasorda
87. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” -Napoleon
88. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” -Benjamin Franklin
89. “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -Abraham Lincoln
90. “Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.” -M Collins
91. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” -Bobby Unser
92. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King
93. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. –Seneca”
94. “Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Real men believe in cause and effect. ” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” -S Goldwyn
96. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” -Beverly Sills
97. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” -Tobias Wolff
98. “Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
99. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
100. “Patience is the greatest of all virtues.” -Cato the Elder
101. “The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.” -Plautus

Source. These are publicly available quotations pulled from various sources.