Motivational Quotes and inspiring words

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different."

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

"All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"Set your goals high and don’t stop until you get there."

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

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

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

"If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

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

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

"The question isn't who’s going to let me; it's who is going to stop me?"

"The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh."

"What’s the tiniest step you can take? Do that first."

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

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

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

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

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

"You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move."

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

"Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan."

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

"There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth."

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."

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

"We choose to go to the moon and do these other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

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

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"A lot of people will just stop because they’re dead tired. You gotta do that extra one. That’s when you improve."

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

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

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

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

"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."

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time."

"Great men are not born great, they grow great."

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

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

"You must do the things you think you can't do."

"Someday is not a day of the week."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

"Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them."

"Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea."

"Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you."

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

"The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place."

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success."

"Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give. Last one you earn."

"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."

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

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

"Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied."

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

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there."

"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!"

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

"Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring – or even stagger – back up."

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas."

"Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

"Striving to make dreams come true is very difficult to get along with inconsistency."

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough."

"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."

"Always deliver more than expected."

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

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

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

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

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right there."

"Leaders are never satisfied; they continually strive to be better."

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

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

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

"Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy."

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

"Light tomorrow with today!"

"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!"

"What you want exists. Don't settle until you get it."

"Do your thing and don't care if they like it."

"Make each day your masterpiece."

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

"Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you."

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

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"Speak less than you know; have more than you show."

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

"If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough."

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

"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, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

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

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

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success."

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

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

"The main thing to keep in mind is that there can be many sets of small goals involved in working up to your final and ultimate goal."

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

"You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

"Life is tough, darling, but so are you."

"Nothing great ever came that easy."

"Well done is better than well said."

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

"Never, never, never give up."

"Live each day as if your life had just begun."

"If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

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

"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

"Half-heartedness never won a battle."

"If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen."

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

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."

"Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end."

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

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

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

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

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you."

"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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

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

"Deep down you know what you want. Deep down you have what it takes."

"A will finds a way."

"There is always room at the top."

"The more you give, the more comes back to you."

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

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

"The Man on the mountain didn't fall there."

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

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"The moment you want to quit is the moment you need to keep pushing."

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

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

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing."

"Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but… they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us."

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."

"A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

"There is no excuse for not trying."

"Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change."

"One of the most efficient ways you can improve your life is by simply thinking in a more positive way."

"Confidence is the belief that you can accomplish something successfully and that you have the resources to do it."

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it."

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others."

"To find your perfect relationship you have to first learn to love your own company."

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

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

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

"Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up."

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"There are no mistakes, only opportunities."

"When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something."

"Where there is a ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

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

"There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self."

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

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

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

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it."

"Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

"Don't let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future."

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

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

"Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem."

"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."

"Always ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow."

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

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

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals."

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

"It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."

"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

"The road to nowhere is paved with excuses."

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

"Don't try to look like the girl from Instagram. Even the Instagram girl doesn't look like that."

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

"Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret."

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

"Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

"The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot."

"If you have the right mind-set, you can be just as happy on Monday as you are on Friday."

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality"

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life."

"The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come. "

"As men grow old enough to look back on their lives, any pain they have does not come from the things at which they failed, but the things they never tried."

"Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live."

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

"Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river without water."

"A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned."

"If you think wellness is expensive, try illness."

"Let your body be your holy temple."

"Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again."

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

"The trouble is, you think you have time."

"Don't wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life"

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

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

"Five years from now you will arrive, the question is where?"

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

"There are 1,440 minutes in a day, and once they’re gone, you never get them back."

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone."

"If someone tells you you can’t they’re showing you their limits, not yours. "

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

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

"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow."

"Look at life with the eyes of a child."

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

"In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination."

"You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."

"Your talent is God’s gift to you."

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

"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."

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"The only journey is the one within."

"Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future."

"You could be anyone if you put the time."

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

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

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

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today."

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

"And you ask 'What if I fall?'. Oh, but my darling, 'What if you fly?'."

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

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

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."

"If you know how quickly people forget the dead you'll stop living to impress people."

"There are no weekends in war. If your life doesn't know weekends, it could well be that your life is some kind of war."

"He who moves not forward goes backward."

"An oak is not felled at one blow."

"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in you don't get anything out."

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more roses."

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

"When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place."

"Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."

"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second-best time is right now."

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

"There are two kinds of people in this world; those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes."

"It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t."

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

"The idea is to die young as late as possible."

"If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun."

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else."

"I was not the most talented, but I was the one who worked the hardest. It made all the difference."

"Best lesson I have learned in life came from the worst feeling I ever felt in life."

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

"I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour."

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

"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

"Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."

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

"I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win."

"So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

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

"When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure', not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'"

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations."

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

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

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' "

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

"When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe."

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

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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

"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

"Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time."

"For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it."

"In three words I can sum up everything I know about life. It goes on."

"Every man dies, not every man really lives."

"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

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

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."

"Do something now. Your future self will thank you for later."

"The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become."

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficult, and every difficulty has an opportunity."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence."

"It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop."

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

"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."

"The struggles we endure today will be the "good old days" we laugh about tomorrow."