160 Daily Motivation Quotes

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Famous Daily Motivation Quotes

Be your own motivation. — Jon Jones

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. — Lee Iacocca

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent. — Viswanathan Anand

Motivation is the weapon you use to eliminate your excuses. - Tim Fargo

Motivation is the weapon you use to eliminate your excuses. — Tim Fargo

Don't worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable - and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short. — Jocko Willink

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life. — Martina Navratilova

Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive. — Robert H. Goddard

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. — Aristotle

Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline. — Jocko Willink

Short Daily Motivation Quotes

  • Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. — Robert Collier
  • The greatest motivation you can give to others is the proof of your success — Jim Rohn
  • The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that. — Marc Parent
  • Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. — Thomas Young
  • Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. — Norman Ralph Augustine
  • The most effective form of motivation is progress. — James Clear
  • If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. — Noel Coward
  • Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
  • The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. — Mike Ditka
  • Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. — Lou Holtz

Daily Motivation Image Quotes

Daily motivation quote You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Motivation Daily Quotes

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. - Robin Sharma

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma

Daily motivation quote Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney

Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it. — Nastia Liukin

Daily motivation quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.

Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally. — Hannah Bronfman

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. — Harold Geneen

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily. — Misty May-Treanor

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies. — Jon Stewart

Morning Motivation Quotes

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. — Mark Zuckerberg

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond

Daily motivation quote There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your ow
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsch

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. — Ronald Reagan

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine. — Drake

Daily motivation quote Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid. — Lupita Nyong'o

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. — Jim Rohn

Your job is to create a vision that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning. If it doesn’t, go back to bed until you have a bigger dream. — Lewis Howes

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. — Abbie Hoffman

Monday Motivation Quotes

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. — Gary Sinise

My birthday was Monday, now I finally get to go home and enjoy it with some Burger King. Here I come baby! Burger King! Burger King! — James Toney

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. — Lucille Ball

Daily motivation quote Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. — Norman Vincent Peale

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do. — Bill Phillips

I guess good things come to those who wait. — Kurt Busch

Daily motivation quote It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

All good things come to those who wait. — Paullina Simons

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. — Rick Warren

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. — Mary Lou Retton

Get Motivated Quotes

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt

Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell

Daily motivation quote A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins

Daily motivation quote The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn

What gets measured gets managed. — Peter Drucker

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Stevie Wonder

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt

Life Motivation Quotes

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

Daily motivation quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. — A. A. Milne

Keep You Motivated Quotes

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney

You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die. — Gurbaksh Chahal

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins

Try and fail,but don't fail to try. — John Quincy Adams

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey

After some point it's like you feel like you should quit but you want it so badly you just keep going. — MrBeast

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. - Lindsey Vonn

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn

Feeling Motivated Quotes

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. - Eric Liddell

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell

Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! — Frederic Chopin

People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou

Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life. — Rhonda Byrne

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. — A. A. Milne

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. — Milton Berle

Feel the fear and do it anyway. — Susan Jeffers

When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness. — Judah Smith

Stay Motivated Quotes

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation. — Misty Copeland

Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. — Henry Cloud

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious. — Joel Osteen

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down - Carl Brashear

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down — Carl Brashear

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life. — Les Brown

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try. — Michael Jordan

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. — Nelson Mandela

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help! — Robert H. Schuller

Powerful Motivational Quotes

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. - Sayings

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Sayings

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali

Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg

What you think you become. — Buddha

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander

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More Daily Motivation Quotes

People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes. — Elizabeth Kolbert

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson

I do have daily challenges, trying to find clothes that fit, cars to drive and having enough food to eat. — Martyn Ford

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking. — Dale Carnegie

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film. — Pedro Almodovar

Excellence is not an act, but a habit. — Marva Collins

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins. — Rosanne Cash

To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance. — Stanley Greenspan

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight! — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. — Tony Robbins

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. — C. S. Lewis

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. — Harry S. Truman

Put yourself in your customer's place. — Orison Swett Marden

Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs. — Robin Sharma

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities. — Robin Chase

We become what we think about most. — John H. Vandenberg

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily. — Martha Stewart

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy. — Edmund Burke

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating. — Adam Riess

Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going — Norman Vincent Peale

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation! — David

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort. — Tom Rath

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man. — Haniel Long

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle? — William Makepeace Thackeray

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture. — William Hazlitt

Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work. — Benjamin Stone

Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure. — Edward Gibbon

The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before. I've found that's what keeps me motivated and moving forward - learning new things and challenging myself on a daily basis to improve as a composer, recording engineer, percussionist, guitarist, producer...the list goes on and on! — Jason Graves

The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past. — Francisco Leon

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. — Gustave Le Bon

Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are 'Life is perfect' and 'I am grateful'. The more I do, the better I feel. Try it for yourself! — Hal Elrod

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