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Table of Contents
- What is Motivation?
- How to stay motivated all the time?
- 200+ Life Changing Inspirational Quotes To Uplift You
- Short Inspirational Quotes
- Inspirational quotes about life
- Powerful motivational quotes
- Short meaningful deep life quotes
- Leadership Quotes
- Inspirational quotes by famous people
- Final Thoughts
What is Motivation?
Although there are many definitions of motivation, in simple words motivation is a desire or urge which helps us to complete a specific goal.
But these are theoretical things, let us know how we can always remain motivated.
How to stay motivated all the time?
90% of you people get a wave of motivation when they watch a motivational song or movie and start working towards their goal. But then what happens after 2 days? Either you will also know that you come back to the same path again.
You must be thinking that how can we stay motivated forever. The very simple answer is to keep control with you. Yes, you heard it right, you have to keep control with yourself only then you can be motivated forever.
Let me explain this thing to you in detail.
In whatever field you are in, some people are sitting on top of that field. If you think about them that there is something special in them, they are extraordinary or they are very intelligent, then you are absolutely wrong.
And by thinking this way you have trapped yourself and lost your control.
But if you think that those people who are at the top are on the strength of their hard work and you too can achieve that position. So now you have control within you.
Friends, always remember that we have two options, first, we leave control or take control in our hands.
I hope that now all of you people must have come to know how to stay motivated all the time.
200+ Life Changing Inspirational Quotes To Uplift You
Short Inspirational Quotes
1.”True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful”
Paul Sweeney
2.”Pick the lock if you can’t discover the key to success.”
Unknown
3. “3 P’s of success : Passion, Patience and Persistence”
Doug Bronson
4.”Impossibility is an opinion, not a fact”
Unknown
5.”The secret to success is to do common things uncommonly well”
John D. Rockefeller
6.”The real risk is doing nothing”
Denis Waitley
7.”Difficulties mastered are opportunities won”
Winston Churchill
8. “Whatever you are, be a good one”
Abraham Lincoln
9.”Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out”
Robert Collier
10.”God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11.”Failure is a success if we learn from it”
Malcolm Forbes
12.”There is no limit to what a man can achieve if he so believes this”
Thomas J. Vilord
13.”Success is not permanent, neither is failure”
Dell Crossword
14.”Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average”
A.W. Tozer
15.”Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do”
John Wooden
16.”Goals that are not written down are just wishes”
17. “Begin with the end in mind”
Stephen Covey
18.”Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks”
Dottie Walters
19.”Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
20.”Be all that you can be”
ARMY Slogan
21.”Success could be describes as 50/50 : 50% vision and 50% action”
22.”In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
Albert Einstein
23.”The harder I work, the luckier I get”
James Thurber
24.”I am the captain of my soul. I am the master of my fate”
William Henley
25.”Life is change; growth is optional. Choose wisely”
Karen Kaiser Clark
26.”When you think big, your results are big”
Thomas J. Vilord
27.”The best way to predict your future is to create it”
28.”Life without risk is not worth living”
Charles Lindbergh
29.”If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
30.”It is what you learn after you know it all that counts”
John Wooden
31.”He who stops being better, stops being good”
Oliver Cromwell
32.”Tomorrow is now”
Elanor Roosevelt
33.”Failure is never as scary as regret”
34.”They can because they think they can”
Virgil
35.”Ideas shape the course of history”
John Keynes
36.”To move the world, we must first move ourselves”
Socrates
37.”I think, therefore I am”
Rene Descartes
38.”Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think”
Ayn Rand
39.”Imagination is more important than knowledge”
Einstein
40.”Where there is no vision, people perish”
Proverb
41.”We will either find a way or make one”
Hannibal
42.”Hope doesn’t guarantee anything – hard work does”
43.”Believe you will be successful and you will”
Dale Carnegie
44.”If we always look back, we lose sight of what’s ahead”
Justin Sims
45.”There are no losers in losing, only losers in not wanting to win”
Jesus M. Trejo
46.”The life that is not examined is not worth living”
Socrates
47.”All leaders are readers”
Jim Rohn
48.”Your habits will determine your quality of life”
49.”Our intentions create our reality”
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
50.”There are no limitations to any of our dreams”
Gene Simmons
51.”Life is only what we choose to make it”
52.”There is always a better way”
Thomas Edison
53.”The habit of persistence is the habit of victory”
Herbert Kaufman
54.”Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm”
Publilius Syrus
55.”Fall seven times and stand up eight”
Japanese Proverb
56.”Goals are dreams with deadlines”
Diana Scharf Hunt
57.”Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
58.”The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
Steve Jobs
59.”The greatest dreams are always unrealistic”
Will Smith
60.”The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
Mark Twain
61.”There are no traffic jams along the extra mile”
Roger Staubach
62.”You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
Wayne Gretzky
63.”You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past”
Joel Osteen
64.”People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision”
John Maxwell
65.”We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet”
66.”A leader is a dealer in hope”
Napolean Bonaparte
Inspirational quotes about life
1.”Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.”
Kevin Kruse
2.”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”
Henry David Thoreau
3.”Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
John Lennon
4.”A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week”
George Patton
5.”A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”
Lao Tzu
6.”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 safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
Mark Twain
7.”A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.”
Douglas MacArthur
8.”All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo
9.”It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years”
Abraham Lincoln
10.”My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”
Richard Branson
11.”Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
12.”Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
Carl Sandburg
13.”When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon
14.”It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway
15.”Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.”
Alexander Dumas
16.”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
Martin Luther King Jr.
17.”One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.”
Jack Penn
18.”You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame”
Erica Jong
19.”Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein”
H. Jackson Brown
20.”For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
John F. Kennedy
21. “In a day, when you don’t come across any problems –you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.”
Swami Vivekananda
22. “I’ve missed more than 9000 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
23. “I have learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, but we must not let our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, disappointments, and painful experiences. Reset our goals and priorities and move forward. Start today by untying the knots that are limiting you.”
Ty Howard
24. “Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of.”
Pete Zafra
Powerful motivational quotes
1.”Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Rodin
2.”Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can”
Arthur Ashe
3.”Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in
David Lloyd George
two small jumps.”
4.”Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
Benjamin Franklin
5.”Never let yesterday use up today”
Richard H. Nelson
6.”Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.”
7.”Failure is the path of least PERSISTENCE.”
8.”Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”
Claude Bissell
9.”When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
10.”Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”
Maria Robinson
11.”If you can’t do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow”
Yusuf Tara
12.”Reach for the moon. If you fall short at least you’ll be among the stars”
13.”All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
14.”The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
15.”What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16.”Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?”
Aslan
17.”I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.”
Jackie Joyner Kersee
18.”Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.”
Conrad Hilton
19.”I can’t believe that God put us on this earth just to be ordinary.”
Lou Holtz
20.”True success in life is not measured by how much you make, but by how much of a difference you make”
21.”The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day
I stop growing”
22.”Success in the end erases all the mistakes along the way”
Chinese Proverb
23.”Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!”
Donald Trump
24.”He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.”
Lao Tzu
25.”Don’t wish for it.. .work for it!”
26.”Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition.”
Joe Carlozo
27.”If you think you can or if you think you can’t, either way you are right.”
Anthony Robbins
28.”Imagination rules the world.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
29.”Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits.”
30.”Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement”
31.”To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will”
Sugar Ray Robinson
32.”Good things come to those who hustle while they wait.”
33.”Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”
Napoleon Hill
34.”Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Dr. Samuel Johnson
35.”Never underestimate the potential and power of the human spirit.”
36.”Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all of the facts”
Book Quote
37.”Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists of sticking to one thing until it gets there.”
Josh Billings
38.”Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, “I want to do this and I CAN do this”, not “I would like to do this, but I don’t think I can”
Denis Waitley
39.”There is no failure only feedback.”
Robert Allen
40.”You don’t just stumble into the future; you create your own future.”
Roger Smith
41.”If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.”
Lee Iacocca
42.”If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
the attraction of earth.”
43.”Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
44.”Take the first step in faith. We don’t need to see the whole staircase; we just need to take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr
45.”Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop.”
Ovid
46.”The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try–angle”
47.”The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
48.”The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
49.”Every no gets me closer to a yes.”
Mark Cuban
50.”Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
Jean De La Bruyere
51.”You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Rabindranath Tagore
52.”Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is”
Vince Lombardi
53.”After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
Nelson Mandela
54.”This too shall pass.”
Proverb
55.”The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate”
Thomas Watson
56.”Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
Les Brown
57.”You must have long–range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short–range failures.”
Charles C. Noble
58.”You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin Franklin
59.”You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
60.”Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Cyril Parkinson
61.”What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
Proverb
62.”Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thou shalt progress.”
Maimonides
63.”Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
Doug Larson
64.”Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
Sylvia Plath
65.”You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”
Zig Ziglar
66.”Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”
Claude Bissell
67.”Every day of your working life is part of an interview for a job you don’t even know
Adam Darowski
you’re going for yet.”
68.”While we are postponing, life speeds by”
Seneca
69.”We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
70.”To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
71.”Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.”
Hector Louis Berlioz
72.”There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
Beverly Sills
73.”The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.”
Maksim Gorky
74.”Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people
Anthony Robbins
overestimate what they can accomplish in a year –and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade.”
75.”Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”
Peter Drucker
76.”Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.”
George Burns
77.”Life is full of obstacle illusions.”
Grant Frazier
78.”It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live”
Mae Jemison
79.”It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”
Henry David Thoreau
80.”It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.”
Arnold Bennett
81.”It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”
Latin Proverb
82.”It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
Winston Churchill
83.”In a day, when you don’t come across any problems –you can be sure that you are
Swami Vivekananda
traveling in a wrong path”
84.”If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else”
Lawrence J. Peter
85.”If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.”
John Wooden
86. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
87.”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
88.”I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
Somerset Maugham
89.”He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.”
Dante
90.”He who gains time gains everything”
Benjamin Disraeli
91.”Goals determine what you’re going to be.”
Julius Erving
92.”Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.”
John Shebbeare
93.”Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
Booker T. Washington
94.”Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
Confucius
95.”Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
96.”A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”
Polybius
97.”A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.”
Rita Mae Brown
98.”Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know
Steve Jobs
what you truly want to become.”
99.”We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is
Plato
when men are afraid of the light.”
100. Never let a day pass that will make you say, “I will do better tomorrow”
Short meaningful deep life quotes
1.”An unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates
2.”Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved”
Swami Vivekananda
3.”A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self”
Charles Dickens
4.”All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today”
Proverb
5.”Life is a state of mind; imagine the one that you want, and then create it.”
6.”Life is short. Focus from this day forward on making a difference.”
7.”It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it”
W. Somerset Maughan
8.”Life’s battles don’t always go to the faster, stronger man. The man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
9.”Yesterday’s failures are today’s seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest tomorrow’s success.”
10.”Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
Sir James M. Barrie
Leadership Quotes
1.”You don’t lead by hitting people over the head–that’s assault, not leadership.”
Dwight Eisenhower
2.”True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
Bill Owens
3.”The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
Kenneth Blanchard
4.”The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
Harvey Firestone
5.”Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self–esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
Sam Walton
6.”Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing”
Tom Peters
7.”Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
General Colin Powell
8.”Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
9.”Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Brian Tracy
10.”You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
Ken Kesey
11.”The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
12.”No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all
Andrew Carnegie
the credit for doing it.”
13.”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Stephen Covey
14.”Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
Norman Schwarzkopf
15.”Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
Jesse Jackson
16.”I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic
Warren Bennis
followership can be.”
17. “Education is the mother of leadership”
Wendell Willkie
18.”As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates
19.”A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
John C. Maxwell
20.”A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
Stephen King
21.”To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.”
Anthony Pagano
22. ” All leaders are readers”
Jim Rohn
23. “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination”
24.”The very essence of leadership is having vision.”
Father Theodore Hesburg
25. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity”
Dwight Eisenhower
26.”The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
Max DePree
27.”Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley
28.”Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”
Erskine Bowles
29.”Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done
General Dwight Eisenhower
because he wants to do it”
30.”Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
Woodrow Wilson
Inspirational quotes by famous people
1.”A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided”
Anthony Robbins
2.”The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”
Brian Tracy
3.” If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”
Dale Carnegie
4.”Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
Dennis Waitley
5.” I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.”
Donald Trump
6.”It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions”
Jim Rohn
7.”Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy, and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality”
Mark Victor Hansen
8.”If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”
Elon musk
9.”Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.”
Jack Ma
10.”Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure”
Larry Ellison
Final Thoughts
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