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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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