Thoughts of Motivational Quotes in English

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

- Warren Buffett

If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.

- Tony Robbins

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

- Zig Ziglar

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

- C.S. Lewis

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.

- Mark Cuban

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho Quotation

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

- Napoleon Hill

Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

- Wayne Dyer

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.

- Anonymous

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

- William James

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Nothing will work unless you do.

- A Quotation From Maya Angelou Download or Share

Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.

Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.

Benjamin Hardy

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough.

- Mario Andretti

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Kurt Cobain

If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.

Wayne Dyer

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

- Carol Burnett

It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!

- Heather Stillufsen

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

Jaymin Shah

Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.

Ken Poirot Download or Share

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

- Lain Duncan Smith

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

- John C. Maxwell

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.

- Confucius

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

- Nelson Mandela

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

- Thomas Edison

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

- Florence Nightingale

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.

- Chris Grosser

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

- Kevin Durant

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something.

- Alcurtis Tumer

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

- Henry Ford

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

- Walt Whitman

There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.

- Dwayne Johnson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

There is no substitute for hard work.

- Thomas Edison

Amateurs have hard work and speed. Professionals have hard work, speed and direction.

- Maxime Lagace

Nothing can beat hard work.

- Conor McGregor

Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

- Bruce Feirstein

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

- Arthur Ashe

Make each day your masterpiece.

- John Wooden

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

- Robert Collier

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vidal Sassoon

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

- Maya Angelou

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

- Charles Swindoll

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

- Suzy Kassem

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

- Colin R. Davis

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

- Henry David Thoreau

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

- Dennis Waitley

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

- Proverb

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start charging for it.

- Kim Garst

Opportunities don't happen, you create them.

- Chris Grosser

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

Lolly Daskal

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

- Oprah Winfrey

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.

- Anonymous

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

- Albert Einstein

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.

- Charles A. Jaffe

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

- Thomas J. Watson

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

- Michael John Bobak

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

- Pablo Picasso

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

- Robert Kiyosaki

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

- JIm Rohn

The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything.

- Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily. 

- Zig Ziglar

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

- Earl Nightingale

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

– Katharine Hepburn

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. 

- Les Brown

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

- Henry Kravis

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Jim Ryun

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

- Booker T. Washington

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

- Dale Carnegie

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

- Herman Melville

What would you do if you weren't afraid.

- Spencer Johnson

Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.

- Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

Never regret anything that made you smile.

- Mark Twain

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

- Groucho Marx

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

- Washington Irving

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John R. Wooden

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible!

- Audrey Hepburn

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

- Margaret Thatcher

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down.

- Buddha

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.

- Abraham Lincoln

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

- Chinese Proverb

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

- Barack Obama

Action is the foundational key to all success.

- Pablo Picasso

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Stanley McChrystal Download or Share

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.

Steve Pavlina Download or Share

You never know what you can do until you try.

William Cobbett Download or Share

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O’Brien Download or Share

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure.

- Abdul Kalam Download or Share

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Virat Kohli Download or Share

Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.

Frank Ocean Download or Share

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

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

- Albert Einstein Download or Share

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

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You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

- C.S. Lewis Download or Share

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Edison Download or Share

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.

Christine Caine Download or Share

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 Download or Share

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

George Lorimer Download or Share

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank Download or Share

Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

A.C. Benson Download or Share

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan Download or Share

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Roy T. Bennett Download or Share

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle Download or Share

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

Socrates Download or Share

Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you.

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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg Download or Share

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

Gary Vaynerchuk Download or Share

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Tim Notke Download or Share

The hard days are what make you stronger.

Aly Raisman Download or Share

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.

Philippos

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

- Oscar Wilde

It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.

Marcus Zusak Download or Share

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller Download or Share

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey Download or Share

If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.

Catherine Pulsifier Download or Share

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt Download or Share

If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.

Elon Musk Download or Share

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 which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller Download or Share

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 Download or Share

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll Download or Share

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Joss Whedon Download or Share

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

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash Download or Share

If you're going through hell keep going.

- Winston Churchill Download or Share

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

- Babe Ruth Download or Share

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso Download or Share

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt Download or Share

Impossible is just an opinion.

- Paulo Coelho Download or Share

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain Download or Share

Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.

Ross Simmonds Download or Share

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.

Isabelle Lafleche Download or Share

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Napoleon Hill

Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh Download or Share

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

John Wooden Download or Share Image

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.

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All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney Download or Share Image

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn Download or Share Image

If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.

Michele Ruiz Download or Share

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

- Garrison Keillor

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

- C.S. Lewis

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.

- Warren Buffett

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

- George R.R. Martin

It’s not what you do once in a while it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

- Jenny Craig

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

- Mother Teresa

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

- Theodore Roosevelt

No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.

Elon Musk

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Oscar Wilde

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.

Kamari aka Lyrikal

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Shonda Rhimes

Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around.’

- Oprah Winfrey

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

- William Arthur Ward

I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.

- Michelle Obama

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

- Yuri Kochiyama

Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

- Patrick Süskind

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.

- Warren Buffett

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

- Ariana Huffington

A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.

- Colin Powell

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

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

- Pele

All we can do is the best we can do.

- David Axelrod

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 Download or Share

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

Ella Woodword Download or Share

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- Lolly Daskal Download or Share

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

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Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Download or Share

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 meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

- Anonymous

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

- Vaibhav Shah

Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.

- Gabby Douglas

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

- David Brinkley

When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

- John F Kennedy

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

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

- Earl Nightingale

Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

- Mandy Hale

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde Thoughts

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.

- Roger Staubach

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

- Martha Stewart

If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it--teach yourself to be impatient.

- Gurbaksh Chahal

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

- Brian Herbert

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

- T. Harv Eker

Two roads diverged in a wood and I  took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

- Jane Smiley

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

- George Lorimer

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

-  Bruce Lee

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

- Maya Angelou

Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.

- Anne Frank

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

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

- Dale Carnegie

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

- Theodore N. Vail

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

- Nelson Mandela

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

- Henry Ford

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

- Alice Walker

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

- Aristotle Onassis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

- George Addair

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

- Amelia Earhart

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

- George Whitefield Quotation

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

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

- Michael Phelps

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

- Babe Ruth

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

Every problem is a gift -- without problems we would not grow.

- Tony Robbins

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.

- Amit Kalantri

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

- Dalai Lama

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

- Henry Ford

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.

- Susan Fales-Hill

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

- Mark Cuban

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

- Roy T. Bennett

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

- Nelson Mandela

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.

- Jim Rohn

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- Francis of Assisi