Motivational Quotes

One major purpose to read quotes is to motivate ourselves. To learn more about what the various famous personalities have to say about motivating your own self, check out the Motivational Quotes in the Quotes Gallery section, combined with beautiful Nature Photographs.

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.” — George S. Patton

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” — H. G. Wells

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ― Confucius

“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.” — Homer Rice

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” ― Ayn Rand

“You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.” — Flip Wilson

“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.” — Benjamin Jowett

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” ― Paul Valery

“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” — Michael Phelps

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” — Ted Turner

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” ― Washington Irving

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Know or listen to those who know.” — Baltasar Gracian

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” — Wayne Dyer

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

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” ― Carol Burnett

“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” — Victor Kiam

“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ― Arthur Ashe

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” — John Dewey

“God always strives together with those who strive.” — Aeschylus

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ― Ayn Rand

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” — George S. Patton

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.” — Elbert Hubbard

“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” — Sugar Ray Robinson

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ― Thomas A. Edison

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ― Jim Rohn

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ― Tim Notke

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” ― Michael Korda

“Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.” — Woody Hayes

“Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.” — Tony Robbins

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“There is one grand lie – that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.” — Wayne Dyer

“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” — Bob Marley

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” — Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ― Helen Keller

“One finds limits by pushing them.” — Herbert Simon

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” — Zig Ziglar

“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.” — Orison Swett Marden

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” — Winston Churchill

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” — Norman Ralph Augustine

“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.” — Carl von Clausewitz

“Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.” — Eknath Easwaran

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda

“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” — Philip Sidney

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston

“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” — Bobby Knight

“Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That’s how they expand.” — Robin Sharma

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” — Les Brown

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Francis of Assisi

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” — Christopher Morley

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” — Kyle Chandler

“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” — George Whitefield

“Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.” — Christopher Reeve

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” ― Og Mandino

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” — Peter Marshall

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” — H. L. Hunt

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” — George S. Patton

“Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?” — Eliza Dushku

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” — Henry Ford

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

“If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.” — Bud Wilkinson

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ― Nelson Mandela

“A goal gets us motivated, while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.” ― Aristotle

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.” — Muhammad Iqbal

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” ― Steve Maraboli

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” — Elon Musk

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” — Jim Rohn

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” ― Zig Ziglar

“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.” — Natalie Gulbis

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” — Michael Korda

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” — W. Clement Stone

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ― Jim Ryun

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” — John F. Kennedy

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford

“Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” — Christian D. Larson

“There’s a way to do it better – find it.” — Thomas A. Edison

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats

“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” — Jessica Savitch

“When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!” — Tony Robbins

“Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.” — Kara Goucher

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett

“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” — Tony Robbins

“No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.” — Jack Kornfield

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — Les Brown

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.” — Zig Ziglar

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” — Vince Lombardi

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” — Robert H. Schuller

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ― Les Brown

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas A. Edison

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — Harry S. Truman

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” ― Dale Carnegie

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” — Wayne Dyer

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” — Ayn Rand

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” — Judy Garland

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.” — Richard Rorty

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ― Walt Disney

“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” — Albert Camus

“You will never win if you never begin.” — Helen Rowland

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill

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