A compilation of the greatest motivational quotes of all time.
What is Motivation?
Motivation is a cause or reason for acting or behaving in a specific manner.
The process of initiating, guiding, and maintaining main objective activities is also known as motivation. It is what drives you to behave. For example, motivation might drive you to read a book in order to obtain information.
Motivation consists of the biological, emotional, social, and cognitive variables that drive behavior.
The term “motivation” is widely used in ordinary speech to describe why someone does something. It is the drive for human behavior.
Motivational Quotes
- “Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown
2. “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” -Vince Lombardi
3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –Steve Jobs
4. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
5. “The hard days are what make you stronger.” – Aly Raisman
6. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
7. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
8. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
9. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.”” – Michele Ruiz
10. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
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11. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
12. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
13. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher,
14. “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
15. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
16. “You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” – Unknown
17. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean
18. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
19. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
20. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” -Og Mandino
21. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
22. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
23. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder
24. “It’s not just about being better. It’s about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business.” – Tom Abbott
25. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
26. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
27. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy
28. “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” – Benjamin Hardy
29. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
30. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
31. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!” -Thoreau
32. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
33. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
34. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
35. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
36. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
37. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
38. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
39. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey
40. “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
41. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
42. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
43. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
44. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
45. “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.” – Jaymin Shah
46. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
47. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
48. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand
49 “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal
50. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
51. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
52. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
53. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison
54. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
55. “Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban
56. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” – Anonymous
57. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
58. “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
59. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
60. “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
61. “Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” – Unknown
62. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
63. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs
64. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” – Gabriel García Márquez
65. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – Lolly Daskal
My favorite motivational quotes are, “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” and “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”