199 Motivational Quotes About Life That Will Inspire You

199 Motivational Quotes About Life That Will Inspire You

 

 

1. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

 

2. “I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” – Leah Busque

 

3. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz

 

4. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

 

5. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” – Joss Whedon

 

6. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

 

7. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

 

8. “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.” – Michael Jordan

 

9. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash

 

10. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

 

11. “Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove

 

12. “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” – Socrates

 

13. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

 

14. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

 

15. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

 

16. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

 

17. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”― Neil Gaiman

 

18. “Everything you can imagine is real.”― Pablo Picasso

 

19. “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 which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

 

20. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

 

21. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll

 

22. “Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ― K’wan

 

23. “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” – Unknown

 

24. “Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap.” – Unknown

 

25. “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds

 

26. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

 

27. “Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban

 

28. “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” – Unknown

 

29. “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”― Jaymin Shah

 

30. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”― Abraham Lincoln

 

31. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”― Thomas Edison

 

32. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

 

33. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

 

34. “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama

 

35. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

36. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain

 

37. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

 

38. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean

 

39. “The hard days are what make you stronger.” – Aly Raisman

 

40. “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer

 

41. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

42. “Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” – Unknown

 

43. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F Kennedy

 

44. “Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome.

 

45. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

 

46. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

 

47. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine

 

48. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Unknown

 

49. “Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” – Unknown

 

50. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank

 

51. “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” – Garrison Keillor

 

52. “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.” – Pele

 

53. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson

 

54. “Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” – Gabby Douglas

 

55. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

 

56. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

 

57. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

 

58. “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” – Summer Sanders

Don’t dream about success. Get out there and work for it.

 

59. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

 

60. “If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha

 

61. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

 

62. “I never lose. Either I win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela

 

63. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot

 

64. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis

 

65. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

 

66. “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” – Herb Brooks

 

67. “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” – Yuri Kochiyama

 

68. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

69. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain

 

70. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

71. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder

 

72. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah

 

73. “If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” – Susan Fales-Hill

 

74. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller

 

75. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” – Arabic Proverb

 

76. “The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra

 

77. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

 

78. “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

 

79. “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is.” – Unknown

 

80. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou

 

81. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

 

82. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton

 

83. “This is a reminder to you to create your own rule book, and live your life the way you want it.” – Reese Evans

 

84. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

 

85. “I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.” – Louise Hay

 

86. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” – John Wooden

 

87. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

88. “It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” – George Eliot

 

89. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

 

90. “Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” – Baz Luhrmann

 

91. “Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” – Unknown

 

92. “You can do anything you set your mind to.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

93. “All we can do is the best we can do.” – David Axelrod

 

94. “You never know what you can do until you try.” – William Cobbett

 

95. “Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.” – Mark Twain

 

96. “A walk to a nearby park may give you more energy and inspiration in life than spending two hours in front of a screen.” – Tsang Lindsay

 

97. “If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.” – Tony Gaskins

 

98. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

 

99. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

 

100. “I can and I will. Watch me.” – Carrie Green

 

101. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Wayne W. Dyer

 

102. “The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one.” – Nishan Panwar

 

103. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland

 

104. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

 

105. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela

 

106. “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

 

107. “The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort

 

108. “What is life without a little risk?” – J.K. Rowling

 

109. “Only do what your heart tells you.” – Princess Diana

 

110. “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” – Grace Hopper

 

111. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

 

112. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

 

113. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayer

 

114. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

 

115. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

116. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

 

117. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 

118. “Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

119. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

120. “Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” – Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

 

121. “Don’t think or judge, just listen.”― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

 

122. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

 

123. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther

 

124. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

 

125. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin

 

126. “When something I can’t control happens, I ask myself: Where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?” – Sara Blakely

 

127. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. “ – Jennifer Lopez

 

128. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland

 

129. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

130. “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” – Joan Rivers

 

131. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

 

132. “On my own I will just create and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” – Oprah Winfrey

 

133. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” – Malala Yousafzai

 

134. “What hurts you blesses you.” – Rumi

 

135. ‘Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself.” – Unknown

 

136. “I always thought it was me against the world and then one day I realized it’s just me against me.” – Kendrick Lamar

 

137. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard Nixon

 

138. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” – Paulo Coelho

 

139. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani

 

140. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

 

141. “What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.” – Robin Williams

 

142. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

143. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson

 

144. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

 

145. “Work until your rivals become idols.” – Drake

 

146. “You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” – Unknown

 

147. “You must do the kind of things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

148. “It’s not what you do once in a while it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.” – Jenny Craig

 

149. “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” – Brian Vaszily

 

150. “Wealth isn’t about having a lot of money it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock

 

 

Best Motivational Quotes About Life

 

 

151. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.” – Derek Jeter

 

152. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”- Joe Kennedy

 

153. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”- Chris Grosser

 

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

 

155. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”- Anonymous

 

156. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”- Aristotle

 

157. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”- Aristotle Onassis

 

158. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”- Ayn Rand

 

159. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”- Arnold Palmer

 

160. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”- Arthur Ashe

 

161. “Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.”- Barbara Baron

 

162. “Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.”- Bobby Unser

 

163. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you”- T. Harv Eker

 

164. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.”- Booker T. Washington

 

165. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”- Bruce Feirstein

 

166. “If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.”- Mario Andretti

 

167. “Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”- Charles Dickens

 

168. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”- Coco Chanel

 

169. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”- C.S. Lewis

 

170. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”- Dalai Lama

 

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

 

172. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”- David Brinkley

 

173. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”- Denis Watiley

 

174. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”- Earl Nightingale

 

175. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”-Dale Carnegie

 

176. “Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.”- Dragos Roua

 

177. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

 

178. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

 

179. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

 

180. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

 

 

Deep Motivational Quotes About Life

 

 

181. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

 

182. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

 

183. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

 

184. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

 

185. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

 

186. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

 

187. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

 

188. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

 

189. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

190. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

 

191. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

192. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

 

193. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

 

194. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

 

195. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

 

196. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton

 

197. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton (inspired by John Wesley quote)

 

198. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

 

 

199. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart

 

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