We’ve all experienced it, A sudden loss of motivation. that causes us to feel empty and tired. To which getting up every day is a struggle because we lack motivation and purpose in life. We feel guilty if we’re not doing anything, but we can’t get ourselves to do anything about it.
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For that reason, I’ve gathered 100 motivational quotes for you. That will hopefully inspire you to succeed in life. Just remember that you have to believe in yourself no matter what other people might tell you, and most importantly be brave and take the risk for yourself.
1. “Obstacles are the cost of greatness.” – Robin Sharma
2. “I wasn’t there to compete. I was there to win.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. “The question isn’t who is doing to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
4. “All the power is within you. You can do anything.” – Swami Vivekananda
5. “The Best Way To Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing.” – Walt Disney
6. “Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty
7. “The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.” – Helen Keller
8. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
9. “To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.” – Napoleon Hill
10. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
11. Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien
12. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
13. “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.” – Peter Diamandis
14. “What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it.” – Jay Shetty
15. “It is always your next move.” -Napoleon Hill
16. “Make your habits so specific and your dreams so inspiring that motivation will take care of itself.” – Maxime Lagacé
17. “Learn to be happy with the endless try/fail/learn approach. True growth is slow and steady.” – Maxime Lagacé
18. “Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.” – Bill Gates
19. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.” – Jocko Willink
20. “Motivated people always find a way. Unmotivated people will always find a way not to.” – Ed Latimore
21. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle
22. “Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.” – William Faulkner
23. “If everyone waited until they felt “motivated” to do something, we’d never get anything done. Stop looking for motivation. Take action. The motivation will follow.” – Preethi Kasireddy
24. “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.” – Nolan Bushnell
25. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
26. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
27. “Motivation is short lived. Only genuine desire has the power to sustain a person for the long haul.” – James Pierce
28. “Most people think they lack motivation when they really lack clarity.” – James Clear
29. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
30. “Perceived value motivates you to act. Actual value motivates you to repeat.” – James Clear
31. “What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.” – Unknown
32. “You don’t “discover” your place in the world. You carve it out.” – Thibaut
33. “The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.” – Benny Lewis
34. “Motivate yourself enough times to do something and it will become discipline over time. Practice until it’s automatic and you will become consistent regardless of what you think or feel. Discipline is the transformation of motivation into habit.” – Thibaut
35. “To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”- Elbert Hubbard
36. “It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”- Søren Kierkegaard
37. “Finishing something will give you satisfaction. Finishing something important to you will give you meaning. A meaningful life is a good life.” – Maxime Lagacé
38. “The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.” – Georges St-Pierre
39. “The most important thing is to continue. Forget about others, forget about the scoreboard, forget about your failures. Just keep pushing.” – Maxime Lagacé
40. “A hero is one who knows how to hang on for one minute longer.” – Norwegian proverb
41. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” – Napoleon Hill
42. “It doesn’t get easier. You get stronger.” – Unknown
43. “A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.” – Alexander Graham Bell
44. “You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest.” – Unknown
45. “There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.” – Andrew Carnegie
46. “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” – Edward Abbey
47. “My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.” – Tupac
48. “Motivation comes from meaning. Everything comes from meaning.” – Jay Shetty
49. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
50. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
51. “A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in crowd.” – Unknown
52. “If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”- Billy Joel
53. “I was not the most talented, but I was the one who worked the hardest. It made all the difference.”- Maxime Lagacé
54. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”- George Eliot
55. “Show them what crazy dreams can do.”- Nike
56. “I prefer to die trying.” – Maxime Lagacé
57. “Nothing is given. Everything is earned.” – LeBron James
58. “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
59. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
60. “Remember why you started.” – Erin Janus
61. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
62. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
63. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss
64. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”- Benjamin Franklin
65. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”- Bill Gates
66. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
67. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”- Theodore Roosevelt
68. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.” Eleanor Roosevelt
69. “Win from within.”- Usain Bolt
70. “Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”- Napoleon Hill
71. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”- Henry David Thoreau
72. “Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.”- Pat Summitt
73. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”- Walt Disney
74. “The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”- Herbert Kaufman
75. “Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.” – Andrew Carnegie
76. “Deep down you know what you want. Deep down you have what it takes.” – Maxime Lagacé
77. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”- John D. Rockefeller
78. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”- Stephen Covey
79. “To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”- Criss Jami
80. “The more silence you have in your life, the louder your work can be.” – Maxime Lagacé
81. “I want the world to be better because I was here.”- Will Smith
82. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
83. “You’re probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.” – Larry Page
84. “Action is the real measure of intelligence.”- Napoleon Hill
85. “Everything you can imagine is real.”- Pablo Picasso
86. “Make each day your masterpiece.”- John Wooden
87. “Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.”- Pat Riley
88. “Learn to be comfortable in the uncomfortable. Learn to be peaceful, not bored. Learn to be inspired, not scared.”- Maxime Lagacé
89. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”- Dale Carnegie
90. “How bad do you want it?”- Gary Vaynerchuk
91. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”- Japanese proverb
92. “If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” – Steve Jobs
93. “Conformity gets you nowhere.”- Neil Strauss
94. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”- Steve Martin
95. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou
96. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
97. “Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.” – Ray Dalio
98. “Those who truly want something will keep trying until they die.” – Maxime Lagacé
99. “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers
100. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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