Top 70 Motivational Quotes for Men (2025 Update)

1. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

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2. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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3. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”

— Tim Ferriss

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4. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

— Bruce Lee

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5. “Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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6. “I don't measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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7. “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”

— Eminem

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8. “While you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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9. “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.”

— Abdul Kalam

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10. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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11. “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”

— John Wooden

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12. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

— Michael Jordan

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13. “Never lower your target ; increase your actions.”

— Grant Cardone

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14. “Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.”

— Denzel Washington

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15. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

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16. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

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17. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

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18. “You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

— Zig Ziglar

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19. “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

— Napoleon Hill

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20. “Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision.”

— Conor McGregor

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21. “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.”

— Dwayne Johnson

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22. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”

— Zig Ziglar

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23. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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24. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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25. “Become one of the rare people who don’t know how to quit.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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26. “Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”

— Brian Tracy

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27. “Listen to me, even when you lose, it’s OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it’s got to hurt.”

— Eric Thomas

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28. “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”

— Tony Robbins

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29. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Denis Waitley

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30. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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31. “My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”

— Michael Jordan

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32. “Discipline yourself and others won't need to.”

— John Wooden

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33. “Man is not made for defeat.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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34. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”

— Kobe Bryant

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35. “Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It’s the high-anxiety zone, but it’s also where you discover who you are.”

— Nick Vujicic

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36. “I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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37. “Opportunities Don’t Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!”

— Greg Plitt

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38. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

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39. “Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision.”

— Myles Munroe

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40. “If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”

— Eric Thomas

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41. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself is, ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”

— Jim Rohn

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42. “I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.”

— Napoleon Hill

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43. “If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.”

— Chris Gardner

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44. “You can’t climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”

— Zig Ziglar

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45. “I didn't want to just be a body building champion. I wanted to be the best body builder of all time. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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46. “I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.”

— Grant Cardone

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47. “Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.”

— Tony Robbins

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48. “When all your energy is gone! When you have nothing left! That’s when it’s show time!”

— Eric Thomas

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49. “The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation.”

— Napoleon Hill

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50. “Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”

— Brian Tracy

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