Motivational quotes

Motivation is an process that makes a person move toward a goal. Motivation is not something you can measure or learn, but it can be observed on a person’s behavior. If you need motivation, read these amazing motivational quotes and work towards your goal with a fierce determination.

• Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. – St. Jerome
• Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. – Anonymous
• You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore
• To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Anonymous
• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. – Nikos Kazantzakis






• If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. – Anonymous
• Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll
• Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. – John Wooden
• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda
• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. – George S. Patton
• If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
• Either you run the day or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
• Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. – Proverb

Here are some amazing motivational quotes

• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis
• If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. – Anonymous
• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston
• All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
• Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. – Anonymous
• Life is about making an impact, not making an income. – Kevin Kruse
• Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. – Anonymous
• Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison
• I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale
• Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein
• You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
• Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. – Vaibhav Shah
• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart
• Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. – Chris Grosser
• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth
• If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. – Kim Garst
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. – W. Clement Stone






• The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. – Anonymous
• Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. – Kevin Kruse
• The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. – Henry Ford
• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
• Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. – Anonymous
• The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha
• If you’re going through hell keep going. – Winston Churchill
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
• Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
• An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein
• Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde
• Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Anonymous
• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
• You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus
• No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.- Anonymous
• When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. – Lolly Daskal
• What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. – Anonymous
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Anonymous
• 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
• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – Lolly Daskal
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin






Many more motivational quotes

• Do one thing every day that scares you. – Anonymous
• If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
• The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra
• There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Aristotle
• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs
• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. – Erma Bombeck
• Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. – Anonymous
• Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. – Booker T. Washington
• Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. – Anonymous
• Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
• Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. – Anonymous
• Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair
• 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
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
• You can do anything, but not everything. – Anonymous
• Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
• If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. – Thomas J. Watson
• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. – John Lennon
• The starting point of all achievement is desire. – Napolean Hill
• Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
• Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. – Dr. APJ Kalam
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson
• All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. – Michael John Bobak
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier
• If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. – Sheryl Sandberg
• We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. – Earl Nightingale
• If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb
• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso






• You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. – Unknown
• You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. – Philippos
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absense of fear. – Mark Twain
• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
• It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Anonymous
• The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. – Guy Kawasaki
• 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
• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
• 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
• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates
• A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. – Henry Kravis
• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee
• 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
• 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
• If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. – Gurbaksh Chahal
• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
• 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
• The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. – Napoleon Hill
• Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. – Robert Kiyosaki
• You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan
• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. – George Bernard Shaw
• 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 Watiley
• In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley
• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
• I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman






• To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. – Mike Gafka
• Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan
• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie

The last 15 motivational quotes

• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Success is… Knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. – John C. Maxwell
• You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer
• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore N. Vail
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. – Dale Carnegie
• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.- Anatole France
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville
• You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. – Booker T. Washington
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
• Fortune sides with him who dares. – Virgil
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. – Washington Irving
• A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. – Vince Lombardi
• Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John R. Wooden

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You’ve read all the motivational quotes that are on the site and have probably found a few you really like. Perhaps some of them managed to give you the motivation you needed. Do not waste time, go out with renewed motivation and work toward your goals.