Top 200 Motivational Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Anonymous

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2. “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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3. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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4. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

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5. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

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6. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

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7. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

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8. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”

— Jim Watkins

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9. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

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10. “If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

— Azim Premji

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11. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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12. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke

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13. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

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14. “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

— Goi Nasu

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15. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

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16. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

— Albert Einstein

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17. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

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18. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

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19. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

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20. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

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21. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

— Karen Lamb

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22. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

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23. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”

— Stephen McCranie

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24. “The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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25. “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

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26. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”

— Kevin Ngo

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27. “Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up.”

— Anonymous

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28. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

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29. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

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30. “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”

— Jerry Rice

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31. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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32. “When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

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33. “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

— Maori Proverb

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34. “If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.”

— Tony Gaskins

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35. “When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”

— Scott Belsky

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36. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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37. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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38. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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39. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

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40. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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41. “The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.”

— Susan Powter

42. “I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don’t.”

— Neila Rey

43. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

— Annie Dillard

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44. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward

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45. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.”

— Will Smith

46. “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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47. “I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.”

— Anonymous

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48. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

— Lou Holtz

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49. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

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50. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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