Life can be tough, and sometimes we all need a little push to keep going. That’s where motivational quotes come in!
These powerful words can remind us of how strong we are and inspire us to chase our dreams.
This article has over 149 quotes from amazing people who have found success in their own lives. Whether you’re trying to reach a goal, overcome a problem, or just want to feel more positive, these quotes can help.
So, get ready to feel inspired and motivated to achieve great things!
1. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
2. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
3. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
4. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
6. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker and Abraham Lincoln
7. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
8. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
9. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine
10. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farraj Gray
11. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
12. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
13. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
14. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” – Walt Disney
16. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
17. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
18. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
19. “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.” – Steve Jobs
20. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
21. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
22. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
23. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
24. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
25. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
26. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
27. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
28. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
29. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
30. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
31. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
32. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie
33. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
34. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley
35. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
36. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
37. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” – Charles Dickens
38. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
39. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
40. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
41. “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” – Walt Disney
42. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
43. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
44. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
45. “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.” – Steve Jobs
46. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
47. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
48. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
49. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
50. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
51. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
52. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
53. “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
54. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
55. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
56. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
57. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
58. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
59. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
60. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
61. “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” – Buddha
62. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
63. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
64. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
65. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead
66. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
67. “The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
68. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
69. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
70. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
71. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
72. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
73. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
74. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
75. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
76. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
77. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
78. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
79. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
80. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
81. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
82. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
83. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
84. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
85. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
86. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
87. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
88. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
89. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
90. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
91. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
92. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
93. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
94. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
95. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
97. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
98. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
99. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
100. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
101. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” – Unknown
102. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine
103. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
104. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
105. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
107. “Life is trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury
108. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
109. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
110. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – Oscar Wilde
111. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
112. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
113. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
114. “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – D. H. Lawrence
115. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
116. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
117. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
118. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
119. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
120. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
121. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
122. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
123. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
124. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
125. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
126. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln
127. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
128. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
129. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
130. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
131. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
132. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
133. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
134. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
135. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
136. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
137. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
138. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
139. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
140. “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
141. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
142. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
143. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
144. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
145. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
146. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
147. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
148. “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” – Buddha
149. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
150. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
There you have it! A collection of 149+ motivational quotes to keep you inspired on your journey to success. Remember, the path to achieving your dreams is often paved with challenges and setbacks.
But by keeping your spirit strong, your mind focused, and your heart open to possibilities, you can overcome any obstacle and create the life you desire.
Refer back to these quotes whenever you need a boost of motivation, a reminder of your strength, or simply a dose of positivity.
Let them guide you towards your goals and empower you to live a life filled with purpose and fulfillment.
Now go out there and make your dreams a reality!