150 Best Motivational Quotes

Motivation to get you going

Just as we all need food to stay alive and healthy, we also need Bread for the Head to give us the motivation and inspiration we need to go through the most difficult and tough times. There are always discouragements all around us, but when we put God first in our lives and are motivated to consistently pursue our goals, success is inevitable.

Here is a collection of some of the most amazing success and motivational quotes you need to achieve noteworthy success in any area of your choice.

Best Motivational Quotes

1. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. - Jesus
2. Fall seven times and stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb
3. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius
4. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
5. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs
6. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
7. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein
8. The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra
   
9. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale
10. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher
11. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. - Wayne Gretzky
12. Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. -Jimmy Spithill
13. I’ve missed more than 9000 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
14. Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered-just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better. - Barrie Davenport
15. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart
16. You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.- Eleanor Roosevelt
17. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth
18. Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it. - Tom Hopkins
19. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. - W. Clement Stone
20. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. - John E. Southard
21. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. - Kevin Kruse
22. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward
23. We become what we think about.  - Earl Nightingale
    
24. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. -  George Patton
25. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover.  - Mark Twain
26. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. - John Maxwell
27. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker
28. When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. - Jerry Porras
29. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  - Buddha
30. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker
31. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.  -Chinese Proverb
32. Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
33. An unexamined life is not worth living.  - Socrates
34. Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. - Orrin Woodward
35. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. - Steve Jobs
36. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. - Tom Rath
37. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi
38. Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. - Thomas John Carlisle
39. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
    
40. I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. -  Herbert Bayard Swope
41. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Christopher Columbus
42. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way. - Ronald Reagan
43. 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
44. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn
45. Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon
46. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. - Henry Ford
47. Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. - Patrick Lencioni
48. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
49. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
50. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
51. In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. - Seth Godin
52. Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. - Jarod Kintz
53. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anais Nin
54. The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair
55. 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
    
56. Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. - Frank Herbert (from Dune)
57. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Aristotle
58. If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. - Brad Szollose
59. Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men, the least government is the best government. - Ralph Moody
60. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. - Beth Revis
62. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.  - Henry David Thoreau
63. In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max De Pree
64. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck
65. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.-  Nancy D. Solomon
66. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  - Booker T. Washington
67. There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. - Klaus Balkenhol
68. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. - Ancient Indian Proverb
69. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter
70. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.  - Theodore Roosevelt
71. Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?' - Margaret Thatcher
72. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear - George Addair
    
73. I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. - Robert E. Lee
74. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.  - Plato
75. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. -  Henry David Thoreau
76. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. - Maimonides
77. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
78. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe
79. A leader is a dealer in hope - Napoleon
80. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.      - John Lennon
81. Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. - Margaret Thatcher
82. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. - Colin Powell
83. A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. - Nelson Mandela
84. 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
85. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.-  Steve Jobs
86. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. - Confucius
87. The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones - Brandon Sanderson
88. Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C. Maxwell
89. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
90. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
91. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. - John C. Maxwell
92. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Maya Angelou
93. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer
94. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama
95. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F. Drucker
96. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
97. Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy
98. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.  -Aristotle
99. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
100. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin Proverb
101. Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. - George S. Patton Jr.
102. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. -Unknown
103. Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. - Beth Revis
104. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. -Marie Curie
105. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears - Les Brown
     
106. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine
107. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
108. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci
109. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. - Jamie Paolinetti
110. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. -Erica Jong
111. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan
112. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. - Benjamin Franklin
113. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby
114. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
115. View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do? - Victor Frankl
116. Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. - Shari R. Barr
117. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
118. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. -Chinese Proverb
119. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. - Roger Staubach
120. It is never too late to be what you might have been - George Eliot
     
121. You become what you believe. - Oprah Winfrey
122. To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. - Alan Cohen
123. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Vincent van Gogh
124. Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got. - Sue Knight
125. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -Unknown
126. You never regret being kind. - Nicole Shepherd
127. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  - Ann Landers
128. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren
129. Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.-  Greg Anderson
130. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.- Farrah Gray
131. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. - Jesse Owens
132. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. - Sir Claus Moser
133. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. - Rosa Parks
134. 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
135. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. - Dalai Lama
136. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou
137. Dream big and dare to fail. - Norman Vaughan
138.  Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.
139. Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started -  David Allen
140. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. - Teddy Roosevelt
141. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. - Mae Jemison
142. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
143. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. - Beverly Sills
144. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
145. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses
146. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
147. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford
148. Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
149. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. - Zig Ziglar
150. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” - Audrey Hepburn

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