140+ Motivational Quotes to Inspire Your Success

     140+ Motivational Quotes to Inspire Your Success

 

Life is full of setbacks and suffering. It requires you to be positive and have expectations and beliefs about what might happen.

Motivational quotes can inspire you and help you reach your potential every day and achieve your grand goals in life. Whether you're in professional development, relationships, or feeling pressured in your personal life, get the motivation to move forward with these short, powerful, and often funny inspirational quotes.

Here are the best 140+ motivational quotes. Hopefully inspire you to start your business, lead your life, create success, achieve your goals and overcome your fears.

 

 

Motivational Quotes for Work

 

1. The will of life and work will create a miracle. - Nekrasov

2. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Friedrich Schiller

3. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do . - Winston Churchill

4. My philosophy of life is work. -Thomas Alva Edison

5. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is the duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gorky

6. Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. - Voltaire

7. Who won't rest, who won't work? - Lenin

8. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. -Samuel Johnson

 

 

Motivational Quotes for Success

 

9. I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated. - Bonaparte Napoleon

10. Success covers a multitude of blunders. -George Bernard Shaw

11. You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -Charles Chaplin

12. A man who is willing to be a slave, who does not know the power of freedom. -- Beck

13. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. -William Shakespeare

14. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

15. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. - Richard Nixon

16. The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible". - Bonaparte Napoleon

17. He who seizes the right moment is the right man. - Goethe

18. Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. - M.Moore

 

Motivational Quotes for Women

 

19. You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success. - Charles Chaplin

20. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi

21. It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. -G. Eliot

22. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. - Margaret Mead

23. There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change! - Rhonda Byrne

 

 

Motivational Quotes for Men

 

24. Man errs so long as he strives. -Johan Wolfgang Goethe

25. If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if twice, shame on me. -John Ray

26. A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. - Thomas Addison

27. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - A. Einstein

28. Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat and is born vanquished. - Swetchine

 

Motivational Quotes for Students

 

29. Nutrition books in the world. There is no book in life, and there is no sunlight; wisdom is without books as if the birds do not have wings. - Shakespeare

30. Genius out of diligence. - Golgi

31. Genius only means hard-working all one's life. - Mendeleyer

32. If you don't learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. - Thomas Edison

33. Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. - Francis Bacon

34. A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books. - Thomas Jefferson

35. Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon

36. The empty vessels make the greatest sound. - William Shakespeare

 

 

Motivational Quotes for Kids

 

37. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

38. Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. - Plato

39. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin

40. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

41. Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Steve Jobs

42. You’ve got to find what you love. - Steve Jobs

43. If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. - Edison

 

Motivational Life Quotes

 

44. The ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life. - Leo Tolstoy

45. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - P. B. Shelley

46. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. - Alexander Dumas

47. The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

48. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. - George Eliot

49. Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. - J.H. Newman

50. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Funny Motivational Quotes

 

51. The golden age is before us, not behind us. - Mark Twain

52. The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, would be too long. - William Shakespeare

53. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. -Rabindranath Tagore

54. If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. -Rabindranath Tagore

55. You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down. - Charlie Chaplin

56. There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. - Louis XIV

57. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin

 

Short Motivational Quotes

 

58. To spark, often burst in hard stone. - William Liebknecht

59. Is the true wisdom fortitude ambition. - Napoleon

60. Activity is the only road to knowledge. - George Bernard Shaw

61. There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. -Balzac

62. Cease to struggle and you cease to live. - Thomas Carlyle

63. Man errs as long as he strives. - Goethe

64. Don't waste life in doubts and fears. - Emerson

65. There is no rose without a thorn. - Ray

 

Motivational Monday Quotes

 

66. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. - Colin Powell

67. There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. - Neymar

68. Dream big and dare to fail. - Norman Vaughan, Explorer

69. Dreams become reality when we put our minds to them. - Queen Latifah

 

Wednesday Motivational Quotes

 

70. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray

71. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

72. What you want to do, and what you can do, are limited only by what you can dream. - Mike Melville, Astronaut

73. Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

 

Thursday Motivational Quotes

 

74. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis

75. Never reject an idea, dream, or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it. - Bob Proctor

76. It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting. - Paulo Coelho

77. When a person really desires something, the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. - Paulo Coelho

78. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

 

Friday Motivational Quotes

 

79. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

80. Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities.” - Sugar Ray Leonard

81. To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. - Anatole France

 

 

Sunday Motivational Quotes

 

82. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

83. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

84. There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. - Bernard Williams

85. Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. - George Weinberg

 

Daily Motivational Quotes

 

86. Human activity, if not inspired, will become empty and small. - Chernyshevsky

87. I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln

88. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. - Pearl Buck

89. There is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of gaining its numinous summits. - Karl Marx

90. Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin

91. None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. - Erasmus

92. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

 

Motivational Quotes for the Day

 

93. If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not let yourselves be carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads. - F. W . Nietzsche

94. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about today. - Franklin Roosevelt

95. Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. - Emerson

96. Never leave that until tomorrow, which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin

97. A day is a miniature of eternity. - Emerson

 

Morning Motivational Quotes

 

98. The rivalry is with ourselves. I try to be better than possible. I fight against myself, not against others. - Luciano Pavarotti

99. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner

100. It’s only those who do nothing that makes no mistakes. - Joseph Conrad

101. We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contests, and you must win. - Edward Gibbon

 

Gym Motivational Quotes

 

102. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

103. We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. - Quintilian

104. The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

105. At the moment of commitment, the entire universe conspires to assist you. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

106. When life puts you in tough situations, don’t say ‘Why Me?’ Just say ‘Try Me.’ - Dwayne Johnson

107. The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena. - Tim Cook

108. You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I’m trying to do. - Lewis Hamilton

 

Fitness Motivational Quotes

 

109. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. - Benjamin Franklin

110. A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare

111. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

112. The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Strength Motivational Quotes

 

113. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin Roosevelt

114. Where there is a will, there is a way. - Thomas Edison

115. A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. - Thomas Addison

116. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela

 

Team Motivational Quotes

 

117. Management's first goal is to make higher wages and lower labor costs combined. - Taylor

118. Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. - Peter F. Drucker

119. If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering. - Peter Diamandis

120. A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. - Harriet Martineau

 

Motivational Quotes for Employees

 

121. The rich bring honor and create rich friendships, whereas the poor people have nothing. - Ovid

122. Continuous labor is the life of the iron law, also the art of iron. - Balzac

123. Life is a kind of endless yearning, eager to continue to rise and become more great and noble. - Du Charm

124. No matter what line, all need to be professional skills. Genius always should be accompanied by the kind of directed and uninterrupted practice of a goal-oriented, without this, even the most fortunate to be will disappear without a trace. - Delacroix

 

Love Motivational Quotes

 

125. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. - Victor Hugo

126. Happiness is a form of courage. - H. Jackson

127. Where there is love there is life. - Mohandas Gandhi

128. The course of true love never did run smoothly. - Shakespeare

129. Love is stronger than death.

130. Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none. - william Shakespeare

 

Motivational Quotes for Athletes

 

131. Life is like playing football, not foul, don't dodge ball, but should be rushed to the bottom line. - Roosevelt

132. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.

133. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. - Alexander the Great

134. Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. - C. Weizmann

135. Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind. - Andy J. Sklivis

136. Behind every successful man, there are a lot of unsuccessful years. - Bob Brown

 

Happy Motivational Quotes

 

137. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon Suenens

138. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus

139. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward

140. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. - Denis Waitley

 

Cute Motivational Quotes

 

141. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

142. I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln

143. No road of flowers leads to glory. - La Fontaine

144. There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. - Muggeridge

 

Sales Motivational Quotes

 

145. Let's continue to be famous: "this agent has spent most of the time improving its ideas, and not on the right to justify it.". -- Leo Burnett

146. Fish and visitors smell three days. - Franklin Benjamin

147. All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear. - H. D. Thoreau

148. Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. - Robert Collier

149. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli

 

Don't get knocked down by setbacks, and don't indulge in past failures. These are the best 140+ motivational quotes. Thanks for reading. Hope these sentences can motivate you to keep improving and achieve better.