101 Motivation Quotes That Hit Different When You Need Them

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Winston Churchill

It always seems impossible until it's done.

— Nelson Mandela

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

— Albert Einstein

Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by what you didn't do.

— Mark Twain

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

— Peter Drucker

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

— Wayne Gretzky

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Walt Disney

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

— Sam Levenson

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

— Confucius

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

— George Addair

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Arthur Ashe

Success usually comes to those too busy to be looking for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

— Chris Grosser

The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

— Thomas Jefferson

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

— Vince Lombardi

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

— Mark Twain

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

— Japanese Proverb

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Vince Lombardi

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'.

— Audrey Hepburn

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

— Stephen King

Many of life's failures are people who gave up close to success.

— Thomas Edison

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The future depends on what you do today.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Aristotle

Try to become a person of value, not just of success.

— Albert Einstein

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

— Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Maya Angelou

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

— George Eliot

You have within you everything you need to face the world.

— Brian Tracy

The greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Stephen Covey

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

— Zig Ziglar

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

— Karen Lamb

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

— Suzy Kassem

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

— Helen Hayes

Dream big and dare to fail.

— Norman Vaughan

Do one thing every day that scares you.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

— Benjamin Franklin

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

— Tony Robbins

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

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Winston Churchill

What we think, we become.

— Buddha

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

— Jim Ryun

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

— Les Brown

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

— Will Rogers

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

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Vidal Sassoon

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

— Estée Lauder

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

— Walter Elliot

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

— Jimmy Johnson

There is no substitute for hard work.

— Thomas Edison

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

— Billie Jean King

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

— Maya Angelou

Believe in yourself and know there is something inside you greater than any obstacle.

— Christian D. Larson

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Colin R. Davis

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary.

— Jim Rohn

Successful people just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

— G.K. Nielson

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

— Og Mandino

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

— Dr. Henry Link

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

— Napoleon Hill

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

— Bruce Lee

Limitations live only in our minds, but our imagination makes possibilities limitless.

— Jamie Paolinetti

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

— Zig Ziglar

Champions aren't made in gyms. They're made from something deep inside them.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Lou Holtz

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but it doesn't know that, so it flies anyway.

— Mary Kay Ash

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

— Mark Twain

The best revenge is massive success.

— Frank Sinatra

Motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Louisa May Alcott

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Confucius

If you're going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Thomas Edison

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

— Christopher Columbus

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

— William James

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

— Edmund Hillary

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

— Proverb

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

— Robert Collier

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

— John C. Maxwell

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

— Roger Staubach

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.

— George Lorimer

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

— Abraham Lincoln

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry