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Everyday life might seem like it’s put on autopilot and one is just a passenger waiting to see where life will take them. Of course, it can be just like that for some, but for most of us, we need to have something like motivational quotes to keep us moving.
Now, there are a lot of forms of that pushing force, and one of those forms is quotes about motivation. It might not be a direct push since you’ll need to digest the words and find their meaning. But once you do, we believe these inspiring quotes can greatly motivate you.
Here you’ll find motivational phrases from fictional characters like Winnie the Pooh to philosophical quotes from famous names throughout history like Winston Churchill, Aristotle, or Socrates. As our lives have different paths and roads, it’s only natural to see so many people from different walks of life talk about the one thing that ties them all together—the ability not to give up and keep moving forward.
So whether you need some motivational quotes for work, to encourage a friend or family member ahead of their big day, or it’s Monday motivation you’re seeking, this list is here for your service.
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#1
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” — Lucille Ball
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#6
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill
#7
“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown
#8
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius Kongzi
#9
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
#11
“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn
#12
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer
#15
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” – Socrates
#16
“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
#19
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey
#20
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
#22
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffet
#24
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
#25
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
#26
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis
#31
“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
#32
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” — Vernon Sanders Law
#33
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
#41
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
#43
“You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do." — Dr. Seuss
#45
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael Jordan
#47
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
#49
“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein
#50
“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
#52
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
#53
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
#57
“The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” — Jessica Ennis
#58
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” — Steve Jobs
#60
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
#61
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Ariana Huffington
#64
“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh
#65
“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
#66
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at." — Jesse Owens
#68
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
#72
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
#74
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
#75
“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” — Walter Anderson
#77
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill
#79
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
#81
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.“ — Alexander Graham Bell
#82
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
#83
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart
#84
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” — Augustine Og Mandino
#86
“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
#87
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
#88
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
#90
“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
#91
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin." — Gordon B. Hinckley
#96
“Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” — Unknown
#97
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." — Mary Anne Radmacher
#98
“Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business.” — Cindy Gallop
#99
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke
#100
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou
#101
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates
#106
“It’s not the will to win that matters — everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” — Paul Bryant
#107
“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
#108
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever." — Thomas Aquinas
#109
“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” — Don Cheadle
#110
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” — Tina Fey
#113
“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
#114
“Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.” — Diane McLaren
#115
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." — Colin R. Davis
#116
“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
#119
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
#120
We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do.” — Arlan Hamilton
#121
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
#122
“Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan
#123
“Life is like a sewer… What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer
#124
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford
#125
“Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni
#127
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius
#128
“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.” – Germany Kent
#129
“Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” — Angela Bassett
#132
“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” — Mia Hamm
#134
“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
#136
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel." — Steve Furtick
#137
“I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” — Jay-Z
#138
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford
#143
“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
#144
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches." — Dita Von Teese
#145
“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” — Leymah Gbowee
#147
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” — Jennifer Lopez
#148
“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” — Mia Hamm
#149
“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
#150
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
#151
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
#152
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” — Vince Lombardi
#153
“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” — Walt Disney
#154
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
#156
“Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” — Nicole Kidman
#158
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
#159
"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. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." — Calvin Coolidge
#160
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
#161
“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
#162
“You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” — John Graham
#163
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
#164
“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.” — Vince Lombardi
#165
“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope
#166
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James
#167
“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” — Zig Ziglar
#168
“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
#169
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” — Martha Graham
#171
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” — Arianna Huffington
#173
“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.” — Arthur Ashe
#174
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” — Arlan Hamilton
#175
“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” — Maria Edgeworth
#176
“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” — Raymond Joseph Teller
#177
“Someone will declare, “I am the leader!” and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations.” — Bill Walsh
#180
“I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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