Motivation Quotes
110 hand-picked lines on motivation
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs →
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King →
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
— Babe Ruth →
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt →
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt →
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
— Norman Vaughan →
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney →
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
— Muhammad Ali →
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot →
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
— Henry Ford →
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
— Wayne Gretzky →
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
— Henry David Thoreau →
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr. →
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair →
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt →
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson →
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
— Jim Rohn →
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
— Maya Angelou →
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
— Napoleon Hill →
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James →
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
— Walt Disney →
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain →
“Your limitation—it's only your imagination.”
— Unknown →
“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”
— Unknown →
“Great things never come from comfort zones.”
— Unknown →
“Dream it. Wish it. Do it.”
— Unknown →
“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”
— Unknown →
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
— Sean Patrick Flanery →
“Dream bigger. Do bigger.”
— Unknown →
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
— Steve Jobs →
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
— Tony Robbins →
“You have greatness within you.”
— Les Brown →
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.”
— Eric Thomas →
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
— Charles Kingsleigh →
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
— Abraham Lincoln →
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C.S. Lewis →
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill →
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind.”
— Henry Ford →
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
— Thomas Jefferson →
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela →
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
— Les Brown →
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'm possible.”
— Audrey Hepburn →
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller →
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
— Helen Keller →
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
— Elon Musk →
“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 →
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
— Oprah Winfrey →
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
— Walt Disney →
“I hated every minute of training, but I said don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
— Muhammad Ali →
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger →
“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency.”
— Dwayne Johnson →
“Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
— Kobe Bryant →
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
— Michael Jordan →
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt →
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
— Babe Ruth →
“Dreams without goals are just dreams.”
— Denzel Washington →
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
— William Arthur Ward →
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind.”
— Will Smith →
“Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood.”
— Marie Curie →
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
— Harriet Tubman →
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai →
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.”
— Thomas A. Edison →
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar →
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
— Matty Mullins →
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe →
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”
— William Butler Yeats →
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi →
“You are enough. You have enough. You do enough.”
— Brené Brown →
“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.”
— Emily Dickinson →
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
— Howard Schultz →
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment.”
— Napoleon Hill →
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
— Buddha →
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
— Zig Ziglar →
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand →
“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
— Roy T. Bennett →
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Henry David Thoreau →
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.”
— Dolly Parton →
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”
— Maya Angelou →
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott →
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman →
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
— Dr. Seuss →
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
— C.S. Lewis →
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
— Amelia Earhart →
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau →
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Socrates →
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”
— George Whitefield →
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Winston Churchill →
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
— Will Rogers →
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
— Stephen R. Covey →
“When they go low, we go high.”
— Michelle Obama →
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.”
— Barack Obama →
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.”
— Barack Obama →
“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
— Kobe Bryant →
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
— Robin Williams →
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
— J.K. Rowling →
“Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
— Robert Kiyosaki →
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb →
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
— Tim Ferriss →
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore →
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— A.A. Milne →
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich →
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
— Langston Hughes →
“If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
— Tony Gaskins →
“She believed she could, so she did.”
— R.S. Grey →
“The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.”
— Paulo Coelho →
“Your only limit is you.”
— Unknown →
“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.”
— Unknown →