Top 100 Motivational Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

52. “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”

— Bruce Lee

53. “Success isn’t owned. It’s leased. And rent is due every day.”

— J. J. Watt

54. “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.”

— Denis Waitley

55. “Better to be the one who smiled than the one who didn't smile back.”

— Mari Gayatri Stein

56. “The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

57. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”

— Zig Ziglar

58. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

59. “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.

60. “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”

— Henry Ford

61. “You don’t set out to build a wall. You don't say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.”

— Will Smith

62. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway

63. “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”

— Anonymous

64. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”

— Jewish Proverb

65. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor ”

— Alexis Carrel

66. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

— Frank Zappa

67. “What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it’s supposed to be.”

— Socrates

68. “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

69. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

— Dolly Parton

70. “You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

71. “Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.”

— Thomas Jefferson

72. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

— Steven Furtick

73. “I’d always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself – people like to see that.”

— Chris Rock

74. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

— Pablo Picasso

75. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

76. “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”

— Bill Wilson

77. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

— Abraham Lincoln

78. “If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

— Terry Pratchett

79. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell

80. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

81. “Everybody says they’re trying to get their piece of the pie. They don’t realize that the world is a kitchen – you can make your own pie.”

— Terry Crews

82. “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

— Socrates

83. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green

84. “Summer bodies are made in the winter.”

— Anonymous

85. “As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

86. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

— Henry Ford

87. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

— Jean-Luc Picard

88. “I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal – you are somewhere you’ve never been.”

— Terry Crews

89. “It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

— Bruce Lee

90. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

— Muhammad Ali

91. “Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”

— Nolan Bushnell

92. “In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

— Kevin Smith

93. “Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start.”

— Anonymous

94. “However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference – but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.”

— Isaac Asimov

95. “Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

— Ray Kroc

96. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

97. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

— Jim Morrison

98. “I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.”

— Peter Dinklage

99. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”

— Elon Musk

100. “The best revenge is massive success.”

— Frank Sinatra