Top 100 Momentum Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

52. “Ditch the dream and be a doer.”

— Shonda Rhimes

53. “Don’t wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.”

— Zig Ziglar

54. “You’ll never progress if you never try.”

— Joe Budden

55. “If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you’ll be waiting till the day you die.”

— Mark Batterson

56. “Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

57. “If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!”

— Tim Storey

58. “You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.”

— Joel Osteen

59. “If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!”

— Og Mandino

60. “Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.”

— Teresa Amabile

61. “If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you’ll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.”

— Bill Phillips

62. “Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.”

— Nick Vujicic

63. “Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”

— Tony Robbins

64. “For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.”

— Adam Braun

65. “While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.”

— John C. Maxwell

66. “Forward momentum. That’s my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”

— Gayle Forman

67. “What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”

— Tony Robbins

68. “We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.”

— Bill Vaughan

69. “The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.”

— Tony Robbins

70. “When you have momentum going, play the momentum.”

— Donald Trump

71. “Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.”

— Joe Rogan

72. “Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.”

— Marlon Brando

73. “You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.”

— Simon Sinek

74. “Don’t get bogged down with all the details of how it’s going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.”

— Brian J. White

75. “Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.”

— Lou Holtz

76. “Most companies don’t die because they are wrong; they die because they don’t commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.”

— Andy Grove

77. “He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.”

— Peter J. Carroll

78. “Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

79. “When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.”

— George Soros

80. “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.”

— Bill Bryson

81. “I’ve got forward momentum. There’s no virtue in it. It’s just a balancing act. I don’t dare stop.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

82. “Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

83. “Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.”

— Earl Weaver

84. “As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

85. “Momentum is your next day’s pitcher.”

— Jim Leyland

86. “In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.”

— Alan Greenspan

87. “Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.”

— Charlie Munger

88. “The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.”

— Eckhart Tolle

89. “The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.”

— Erica Jong

90. “India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

91. “The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.”

— Sakyong Mipham

92. “Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.”

— Arthur Keith

93. “Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.”

— Werner Heisenberg

94. “Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.”

— Jean-Baptiste Say

95. “He’s marked his entrance with an error of some momentum.”

— Barry Davies

96. “Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.”

— Nick Hornby

97. “As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.”

— Xi Jinping

98. “There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.”

— Aga Khan IV

99. “The momentum now is inevitable. Now it’s about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.”

— Terence McKenna

100. “Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott