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Motivational Quotes – 100 Quotes To Overcome Life’s Challenges Today



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Motivational Quotes For Life

Motivational Quotes are the source of strength for many people and a genuine source of inspiration. When you are down or not in the right state of mind, look for some motivational quotes to perk up your mood.

Most experts in self-improvement agree that motivation is one of the most critical factors in helping us reach our goals.

The truth is that if we don’t maintain high levels of motivation, then we are unlikely to achieve many of our goals. This is because success requires a lot more than just dreaming about what we want.

It also means taking action by setting goals and doing whatever it takes to achieve them.

What is the difference between a successful person and others?

Why do some people seem to succeed easily while others find it challenging to achieve their dreams?

Motivational Quotes (Motivation) help us stay focused when we have to deal with difficult people, problems, or roadblocks along the way.

It enables us to keep going even when things get tough and shows us how to push past those barriers.

This is one way why many successful business owners say Success is often just about Persistence rather than genuine talent.

Motivational Quotes To Inspire You To Be Successful

These quotes will show you how to live a good life and reach your greatest potential.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. ― Elbert Hubbard
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ― Albert Einstein
Persistence is the best attribute of Success. Denying failure, keeping going with patience and perseverance until we achieve our goals is the key for every person who wants to get big successes in his or her life. — Alejandro Riano
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ — Brian Tracy
Motivational Quotes To Inspire You
Compounding interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it, he who doesn’t pay it. — Albert Einstein
There are two main classes of people in this world: Those who walk in front of you, and those who walk behind you. It is important to keep both types happy. — Sally Sal
All things in life are created twice. We create our own reality and then we create the perception that others have of us as a result — Pete Cohen
When you focus on what lies ahead of you, your eyes will look farther down the road than the person next to you. You’ll see more obstacles up ahead, but they won’t bother you because they’re not yours. Worrying about them won’t help you avoid them, either. You’ll see giants in front of you sometimes, but just remember that giants are really just ordinary people standing about seven feet tall. — David Cohen
The Secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates
Look at things as they are rather than as you think they should be. The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. We must understand the world for what it is if we intend on changing it. — James Baldwin
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather be a person of integrity and lose than win by cheating. — Oprah Winfrey
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations — Charles R. Swindoll, Jr.
Motivational Quotes
You can’t raise your voice without raising your status — Zig Ziglar
Whether you think you can or you cannot, you’re right. – Henry Ford
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful – Albert Schweitzer

Motivational Quotes For Success

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why – Mark Twain
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do — Voltaire
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Van Doren
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -Confucius
There comes a time when we have to assume responsibility for ourselves…That means working at something we don’t necessarily like to make ends meet. A lot of us never want to admit that. We’d rather whinge on about what’s been done to us than take hold of our own lives. — Colin Friels
That’s OK! That’s life! Just get back up and move forward – Richard Branson
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. — Jim Rohn
Enjoy today, this moment right now. This is life. And the greatest mystery of life is not that we are here, but that we are here at all. – Terence McKenna
It’s not what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. – Diana Ross
Motivational Quotes for success
When one door closes another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us — Alexander Graham Bell
The best way to predict your future performance is to create it in advance! — Anthony Robbins
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, to have the life that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely — Roald Dahl
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love – Henry Miller
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar
If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere — Audrey Hepburn
I’ve not failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. — Thomas Edison
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money — W.C. Fields
One may forget what one does not remember to do – Confucius
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door – Milton Berle
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. To complain about the first is to give up on second. – Denis Waitley
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. — Michelangelo
If you want to be successful, find somebody who has achieved the results you want and copies what they do, and you’ll achieve the same results. – Scott Alexander
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it – Jonathan Winters
Remember that without a goal, a natural athletic tendency cannot be realized; likewise, without motivation, one can neither be inspired nor become full of desire. It’s difficult to get out of bed if you have nothing to look forward to. How much more than if the goal is simply to survive! — Masanobu Fukuoka
The only place where you’re destined to reach perfection is in a mirror – Anonymous
If what you are doing is not working, do something else. – David Goggins
Success comes from taking action, and momentum leads to further action. When we take action, we send out positivity into the universe, which attracts more positive experiences. The turning point for me was when I realized that if I took massive action on my ideas, they had the potential of materializing fully formed. – Jairek Robbins
Happiness comes from being content with what we have while striving for more — Andrew Carnegie
Motivational Quotes for success
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
You only live once, and once is enough if you play your cards right — Mae West
Change happens when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change — Tony Robbins

Motivational Quotes of the Day

The best revenge is massive success. If your business or career has been affected by a rival, get even by succeeding over them. Drive them out of business. BOOM! The best revenge! — Mark Cuban
A man needs a little madness in his heart or else he never dares cut the rope and be free — Frank Sinatra
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books – Chinese Proverb
Motivational Quotes for success
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate — Thomas Watson
Know what you have and be thankful for it. This alone will attract more of its like to you — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him — Thomas Carlyle
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value — Albert Einstein
The best way to predict your future is to create it — Abraham Lincoln
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. – Francis Bacon
Strive for Success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. – David J. Pollay
Doubt everything or believe everything—these are two equally convenient strategies — Richard Dawkins
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely — Roald Dahl
Don’t do something unless you can see how it helps the larger picture. -Tony Robbins 
You Are The Sum Total Of The 5 People You Spend The Most Time With -Jim Rohn 
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin  
If you were born without wings, don’t beat your chest and crow about it. – Robert Heinlein 

Super Motivational Quotes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard 
There are two ways of spreading light: be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton 
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt 
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. – Socrates  
There is no time that we are without the influence of others. – Thomas Jefferson 
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein 
If youth knew; if age could. – Plato 
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end. – Benjamin Disraeli 
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Ralph Waldo Emerson 
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.- Beverly Sills 
Remember that the appropriate attitude is to accept challenges, not run from them. – Wren Yancey 
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. – Robert A. Heinlein 
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! — John C Maxwell 
We all need mirrors in our lives to remind us that we have beauty inside. — Laura Schlessinger 

Motivational Quotes

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. –Cecil B DeMille 
The one thing you can’t trade for money-knowledge. — J. Paul Getty 
Know when to stop and smell the roses. — Unknown 
You may not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them – Maya Angelou 
Motivational Quotes
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi 
Focus on your journey, not your destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.— Greg Anderson  
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt 
In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s, there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki 
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning good morning at total strangers.–Maya Angelou
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.-Wayne Gretzky   
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. – Mahatma Gandhi
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.- Jim Rohn 
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It is the struggle that makes Success tastes so sweet.-Unknown
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Unknown 
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.  – Helen Keller 
Success is not how far you have come but how high you are going.- Dr. Robert Schuller 
It’s never too late to become who you might have been. – George Eliot 
The mind once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. – Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.– Eleanor Roosevelt                                 

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