Motivation Quotes

Abandon yourself to the sparks and fires within you

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

The bird dares to break the shell; then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and you fly

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists

The most powerful warrior is he who conquers himself.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

What you seek is seeking you

Restlessness is discontent—and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man—and I will show you a failure.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

I am not led; I lead

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

Energy and persistence conquer all things

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

You cannot control the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly

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

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new

There are no rules here—we are trying to accomplish something

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage

Live the life you've imagined.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else

There is no elevator to success—you have to take the stairs

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

The best way out is always through

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

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe

I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist

The future depends on what you do today

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything

I dwell in possibility

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

You do not find the happy life. You make it

If there is no struggle, there is no progress

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship

If you are going through hell, keep going

The most effective way to do it, is to do it

What we think, we become

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

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men

Nothing will work unless you do

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm

A jug fills drop by drop

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

The creation of beauty is art, and it is achieved by those who labor with a sense of joy and purpose

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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance

The mountain is nothing but a heap of small stones; do not be daunted by its mass

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

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

There are men who fight one day and are good; others fight one year and are better; some fight many years, and they are better still. But there are those who fight all their lives; these are the indispensable ones

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

Become who you are

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth

You have to do what you dream of doing even while you are afraid

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom

Go back a little to leap further

You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club

It always seems impossible until it’s done

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream

You do not find the happy life. You make it

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts

Leap, and the net will appear

Let him that would move the world, first move himself

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn

Enthusiasm moves the world

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage

The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do 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

Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves

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

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in

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

He who moves not forward, goes backward

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

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

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for

If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

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

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

There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it

Sometimes, making the best of the moment is all we can do. Let that be enough, and tomorrow, do it again

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Become like water; it flows, it adapts, it never resists

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most

I am still learning

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else