Top 100 Jon Gordon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.”

— Jon Gordon

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2. “The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.”

— Jon Gordon

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3. “Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.”

— Jon Gordon

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4. “Great leaders don’t succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.”

— Jon Gordon

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5. “Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.”

— Jon Gordon

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6. “Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.”

— Jon Gordon

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7. “Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.”

— Jon Gordon

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8. “Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.”

— Jon Gordon

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9. “You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.”

— Jon Gordon

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10. “Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!”

— Jon Gordon

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11. “Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don’t get tired or bored and our engines don’t burn out.”

— Jon Gordon

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12. “Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.”

— Jon Gordon

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13. “You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player.”

— Jon Gordon

14. “Don’t chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.”

— Jon Gordon

15. “Don’t focus on the numbers. Trust the process. When you keep doing things the right way, eventually the numbers will rise, the wins will come, and the outcome will happen.”

— Jon Gordon

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16. “A true leader doesn’t lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away.”

— Jon Gordon

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17. “Optimism is a competitive advantage.”

— Jon Gordon

18. “Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.”

— Jon Gordon

19. “No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.”

— Jon Gordon

20. “When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.”

— Jon Gordon

21. “One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.”

— Jon Gordon

22. “The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.”

— Jon Gordon

23. “The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination as late as possible, with a smile on your face.”

— Jon Gordon

24. “Life and success are about what you choose to believe.”

— Jon Gordon

25. “You haven’t failed until you stop trying.”

— Jon Gordon

26. “Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits and habits create the future.”

— Jon Gordon

27. “Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.”

— Jon Gordon

28. “So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.”

— Jon Gordon

29. “Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.”

— Jon Gordon

30. “Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, “inspired” or “filled with the divine.””

— Jon Gordon

31. “The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve.”

— Jon Gordon

32. “The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.”

— Jon Gordon

33. “The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn’t get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn’t get on your bus you won’t have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on.”

— Jon Gordon

34. “Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.”

— Jon Gordon

35. “If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are.”

— Jon Gordon

36. “The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.”

— Jon Gordon

37. “The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.”

— Jon Gordon

38. “Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.”

— Jon Gordon

39. “Lou Holtz said, ‘Don’t complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don’t care and 20 percent are glad you have problems.”

— Jon Gordon

40. “My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.”

— Jon Gordon

41. “Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.”

— Jon Gordon

42. “Don’t waste your energy on those who don’t get on your bus.”

— Jon Gordon

43. “Dust on gold doesn’t change the nature of gold.”

— Jon Gordon

44. “Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization.”

— Jon Gordon

45. “Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.”

— Jon Gordon

46. “After all, every team in the league has the same goals so it’s not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, one game at a time, that will define your season.”

— Jon Gordon

47. “Driving a positive, high-performing culture requires more than words. After all, everyone has a mission statement, but only the great organizations also have people who are on a mission.”

— Jon Gordon

48. “It’s not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it’s something that’s got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team.”

— Jon Gordon

49. “If you are complaining you can’t be thinking about or creating what you do want.”

— Jon Gordon

50. “To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can’t breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.”

— Jon Gordon