Motivation is a driving factor for actions, willingness, and goals. Motivation is your desire to do something with your personal life, work, school, sports, or hobbies. Having the motivation to do something can help you achieve your big goals and dreams, whatever they may be.

Life is filled with highs and lows —happiness and struggles that will test your resilience and integrity, push you to overcome challenges and leave you with lessons that will make you even more vital on your way up. Motivational Quotes can help you reach your potential each day. Whether you’re trying to finish a project, start a new side hustle, or hit that big life goal, knowing how to motivate yourself and train your brain for success can help.

Here are a few of our favourite motivational quotes from a wide variety of sources. I hope you’ll find the wisdom and motivation you need today for your work and your life. Enjoy!

Motivational Quotes to Inspire You to Greatness

Top 10 Motivational Quotes

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela

“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

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

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

“Motivation is short lived. Only genuine desire has the power to sustain a person for the long haul.” – James Pierce

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” – Stephen R Covey

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

“Motivation may be what starts you off, but it’s habit that keeps you going back for more.” – Miya Yamanouchi

“Motivation comes from working on things we care about.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Progress is the ultimate motivation.” – Tony Robbins

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti

Best Motivational Quotes

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“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.” – Bruce Lee

“I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali

“Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill

“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” – Mark Twain

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F Kennedy

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

“You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.” – Walt Disney

“You’re probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.” – Larry Page

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

“The Only Limit To Our Realization Of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts Of Today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Super Motivational Quotes

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland

“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.” – William J. Bennett

“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.” – Florence Griffith Joyner

“I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” – Jay-Z

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

“If everyone waited until they felt ‘motivated’ to do something, we’d never get anything done. Stop looking for motivation. Take action. The motivation will follow.” – Preethi Kasireddy

“If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” – Clayton M. Christensen

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.” – Napoleon Hill

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

Funny Motivational Quotes

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“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” – Dave Carolan

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

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

“Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” – Nanea Hoffman

“Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” – K’wan

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman

“How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe.” – Matt Haig

“I always thought it was me against the world and then one day I realized it’s just me against me.” – Kendrick Lamar

“I am not talented. I am obsessed.” – Conor McGregor

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me.” – New Romantics

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.” – Steven Wright

“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

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!” – T D Jakes

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – Winnie the Pooh

“There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.” – Banksy

“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” – Pauline Kael

“You don’t drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there.” – Robert Collier

Deep Motivational Quotes

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“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” – Henry David Thoreau

“’No’ simply means begin again at one level higher.” – Peter Diamandis

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Every night her thoughts weighed heavily on her soul but every morning she would get up and fight another day, every night she survived.” – R.H. Sin

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” – Octavia Butler

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

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

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.” – Benny Lewis

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

“There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

Short Motivational Quotes

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“Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” – Arabic Proverb

“Stop whining, start grinding.” – Eric Thomas

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“A hill is just another opportunity to leave your competition behind.”

“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayor

“Action precedes motivation.” – Robert J. McKain

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” – Napoleon Hill

“Action is character.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

“All the power is within you. You can do anything.” – Swami Vivekananda

“All we can do is the best we can do.” – David Axelrod

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.”

“As soon as I start to feel comfortable I know it’s a signal to level up.” – Dan Go

“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.” – Bruce Lee

“Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordo

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

“Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” – John Wooden

“Do the right thing even when no one is looking.”

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

“Doing what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”

“Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.” – William Faulkner

“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.”

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel

“Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.”

“Don’t talk, just act. Don’t say, just show. Don’t promise, just prove.”

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

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

“Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.”

“Don’t think or judge, just listen.” – Sarah Dessen

“Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams.”

“Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

“Enthusiasm moves the world.” – Arthur Balfour

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” – Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

“Hold the vision, trust the process.”

“Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.”

“Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap.”

“I can and I will. Watch me.” – Carrie Green

“I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.” – Lou Holtz

“I never lose. Either I win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” – Marie Curie

“I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” – Joan Rivers

“I want to be remembered as the one who tried.” – Dr. Dorothy Height

“I want the world to be better because I was here.” – Will Smith

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

“If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.” – Milton Berle

“If there is no wind, row.” – Latin Proverb

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

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

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

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“If you’re going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Take the risk or lose the chance.”

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.” – Criss Jami

“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” – Baz Luhrmann

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“You can do anything you set your mind to.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

“Your only limit is your mind.”

“Your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas

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

Monday Motivational Quotes

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“Mondays are tough only for those people, who don’t know how to spend them cheerfully. Get up and have fun today!”

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” – David Dweck

“Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.” – Rita Schiano

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

“Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” – Julio Alexi Genao

“It’s Monday. Get a new perspective. Whatever obstacle you’re facing—it’s not permanent.”

“You never know what you can do until you try.” – William Cobbett

“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it’s Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” – Edmond Mbiaka

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays.” – Leggy Saul

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier and healthier life.” – Germany Kent

“Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.” – Brad Sugars

“Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns

“What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.” – Kevin Dalton

“Monday morning you sure look fine.” – Lindsey Buckingham

“You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” – Andrea L’Artiste

“Mondays are mundane, like Tuesdays minus 24 hours.” – Jarod Kintz

“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.” – Art Rooney

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle

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

“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodword

“Goodbye blue Monday.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” – Epicurus

“Sunday morning my head is bad. But it’s worth all the times I had. But I’ve got to go and get some rest. For Monday is a mess!” – Dave Bartholomew, Blue Monday

“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” – Julio-Alexi Genao

“This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.” – Lisa Mantchev

“Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.” – Tom Wilson

“I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday.”

“Candy is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.” – Rebecca Gober

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.” – Jerry Spinelli

“This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” – Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be.” – John Phillips

“Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot

“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.” – Marcus Zusak

“There are no miracles on Mondays.” – Amy Neftzeger

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.” – Germany Kent

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens

“It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it was Sunday. ‘Cause that’s my fun day. My I don’t have to run day.” – Prince Rogers Nelson, Manic Monday

“Hey, I know it’s Monday. But it’s also a new day and a new week. And in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.” – Michael Ely

“Just another Magic Monday.”

“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up & chase them.” – Kristin, Sophisticated Gal

“This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.”

Motivational Quotes For Work

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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

“You’re already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you’re trading your time for money. Frankly, it’s just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time.” – Tony Robbins

“You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.”

“You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.” – Ali Krieger

“Work while they sleep. Learn while they party. Save while they spend. Live like they dream.”

“Work until your rivals become idols.” – Drake

“Work until your idols become your rivals.”

“Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.”

“Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban

“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

“When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“When Plan “A” doesn’t work, don’t worry, you still have 25 more letters to go through.”

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda

“The work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” – Jessica Hische

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl Buck

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Talk less. Work and show the result.” – Gal Shapira

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” – William Arthur Ward

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L Hay

“Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“On my own I will just create and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso

“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.” – Vince Lombardi

“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” – Simon Sinek

“If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it.”

“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs

“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan

“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” – Jean-Francois Cope

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” – Walt Disney

“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” – Kate Summers

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

“Dream beautiful dreams, and then work to make those dreams come true.” – Spencer W. Kimball

“Don’t wish for it.” – Work for it.

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

“Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.” – Pat Summitt

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller

“Amateus sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

Motivational Quotes For Success

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“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera

“Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.” – Yulia Tymoshenko

“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka

“There are two rules for success. 1: Never reveal everything you know.” – Roger H. Lincoln

“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” – Mister Rogers

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

“The real secret to success is enthusiasm.” – Walter Chrysler

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.”

“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

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“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

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” – Brian Tracy

“Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.”

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.” – Michelle Obama

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

“Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” – John C. Maxwell

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.” – Bobby Unser

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda

“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” – Edmond Mbiaka

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge

“No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.” – Jaymin Shah

“If you can’t handle stress, you won’t manage success.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.” – Larry Ellison

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

“Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.”

“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos

Motivational Quotes For The Day

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“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis

“Always ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” – Paulo Coelho

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.” – Robert Schuller

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou

“Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.” – Jocko Willink

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds

“If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough.” – David A. Bednar

“If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” – Tobias Lütke

“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” – Lemony Snicket

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” – Maria Edgeworth

“If we keep doing what we are doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.”

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.”

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” – Napoleon Hill

“If you continue to think they way you’ve always thought, you’ll c