Motivational Quotes

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
— Sir Edmund Hillary
Creativity is contagious, so pass it on.
— Albert Einstein
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
— Buddha
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
— Christopher Columbus
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
— Bruce Lee
The future depends on what we do in the present.
— Mahatma Ghandi
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
— Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
— Sir Edmund Hillary
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
— Confucius
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
— Isaac Newton
Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that’s what gets you anywhere.
— Benee
Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.
— Mark Hunt
Keep your face always toward the sunshine , and shadows will fall behind you.
— Walt Whitman
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
— Lao Tzu
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jnr.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Warren Buffett
Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
— Ella Fitzgerald
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
— Plutarch
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
— Joyce Meyer
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
— Thomas A. Edison
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
— Mark Twain
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
— William James
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
— Kobe Bryant
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
— Joyce Meyer
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive.
— Donna Karan
When someone does something good, applaud. You will make two people happy.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Smile, it’s free therapy.
— Douglas Horton
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
— Zig Ziglar
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
— Helen Keller
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
— Jim Morrison
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
— Nelson Mandela
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
— Zachary Quinto
You have to be authentic. You can’t fake a smile. You have to do what you actually enjoy.
— Charli D'Amelio
Knowledge is power.
— Francis Bacon
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
— Oparh Winfrey
Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
— Michael Jordan
If you are not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
— John Wooden
Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
— John Wooden
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
— Michael Schumacher
In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.
— Carol Dweck
If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.
— Mark Spitz
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
— David Attenborough
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
— David Attenborough
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
— David Attenborough
Creativity takes courage.
— Henri Matisse
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
— Steve Jobs
When you are honest, you have a great deal of power. You have the power to choose, the power to change, and the power to grow.
— Gary Zukav
Sleep is the best meditation.
— Dalai Lama
Exercise not only changes your body. It changes your mind attitude and mood.
— Chaka Chaundh
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.
— Albert Einstein
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
— Albert Einstein
Once you stop learning you start dying.
— Albert Einstein
If you think we can’t change the world, it just means you’re not one of those that will.
— Jacque Fresco
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.
— Paulo Coelho
If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye’ life will reward you with a new hello.
— Paulo Coelho
Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.
— Desmond Tutu
Don’t count the days, make the days count.
— Muhammad Ali
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
— Paulo Coelho
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.
— Tina Lifford
Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.
— Gabriel Bernstein
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
— Steve Jobs
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
— Amelia Earhart
Logic will get you from A to Z; but imagination will get you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston S. Churchill
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
— Sir Edmund Hillary
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
— Confucius
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
— Glenn Turner
I mean, the general rule is if you’re not prepared to make a mistake, you’re not going to make much progress.
— Maurice Wilkins
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
— Dame Jacinda Ardern
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible.
— Audrey Hepburn
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
— Albert Einstein
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
— Jimmy Dean
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
— Swami Sivananda
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
— William Shakespeare
Ideas shape the course of history.
— John Maynard Keynes
Light tomorrow with today.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
— Morihei Ueshiba
A will finds a way.
— Orison Swett Marden
If you can dream it, you can do it.
— Walt Disney
Do the difficult things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
— Willie Nelson
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
— Daniel Kahneman
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
— Chuck Norris
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
— Dr. Seuss
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
— George Eliot
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.
— George Allen. Sr
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
— Amelia Earhart
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
— John Dewey
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
— Benjamin Franklin
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
— Allan Bloom
When you are authentic, you create a certain energy, people want to be around you because you are unique.
— Andie MacDowell
One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.
— Sir Peter Jackson
Your performance is not linked to your self-worth.
— Can Do Kiwis
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
— Emma Stone
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
— John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— John Wooden
There are no strangers here; Only fiends you haven’t yet met.
— William Butler Yeats
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
— Walter Winchell
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
— Oprah Winfrey
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
— Jim Ryun
There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
— Pat Riley
Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.
— Paula Creamer
An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
— David Attenborough
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
— David Attenborough
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
— David Attenborough
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
— John W. Gardner
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
— Steve Jobs
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
— John Lennon
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Sorry, There’s No Magic Bullet. You Gotta Eat Healthy And Live Healthy To Be Healthy And Look Healthy. End Of Story.
— Morgan Spurlock
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
— Paulo Coelho
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
— Albert Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
— Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
— Albert Einstein
It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.
— Kano Jiqoro
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my Life.
— Paulo Coelho
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine.
— Paulo Coelho
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
— Paulo Coelho
Don’t give into your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
— Paulo Coelho
Tears are words that need to be written.
— Paulo Coelho
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The creative adult is the child who survived.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
— Debbie Ford
Self awareness doesn’t stop you from making mistakes, it allows you to learn from them.
— Unknown
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
— Dolly Parton