Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
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
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
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
Be motivated by something beyond simply money or glory. — Mark Manson
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
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. — Mike Ditka
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. — Daniel H. Pink
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall. — Denis Waitley
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
The most important thing in life is to have a sense of purpose and meaning. — Jim Simons
Short Life Motivation Quotes
The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose! — Daniel H. Pink
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. — Thomas Young
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. — Robert H. Schuller
A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for. — Mark Shuttleworth
What keeps me going is goals. — Muhammad Ali
Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. — Indira Gandhi
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. — Aristotle
Top 10 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
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
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Life Motivation Image Quotes
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. — Tony Robbins
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Jackie Kennedy
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. — Zig Ziglar
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy
If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. — Bob Proctor
Always desire to learn something useful — Sophocles
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. — Jim Rohn
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. — Abbie Hoffman
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. — Roger Staubach
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.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
The only thing I have is a burning desire to do something worthwhile with my life. I wake up every morning with love in my heart and fire in my belly. — Chatri Sityodtong
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves. — Harvey Mackay
Self Life Motivation Quotes
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life. — Edith Stein
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. — Wayne Dyer
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference. — Russell M. Nelson
Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person. — Mark M. Ford
Gym Life Motivation Quotes
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing? — Kai Greene
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
You have only got three choices in life: give up, give in, or give it all you've got.
Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done. — David Goggins
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done. — Marilyn Monroe
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night. — Magic Johnson
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. — Edward Burgess Butler
Good Life Motivation Quotes
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. — William Penn
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. — Jean Plaidy
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away. — Carrie Fisher
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
Tough Life Motivation Quotes
When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me' — Miley Cyrus
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I’m always going to stay humble. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. — Horace Bushnell
When you have a hard life, a tough life, success becomes very easy. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
I’m from Dagestan, I’m born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. — Seneca
But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars. — William Croswell Doane
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work — David Rockefeller
Happy Life Motivation Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you and make you happy. If you have people who do none of the above, let them go.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. — Leo Buscaglia
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. — Paulo Coelho
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. — John Lennon
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop — Gertrude Stein
Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Single Life Motivation Quotes
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — Abraham Lincoln
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step. — Thomas S. Monson
I want to tell someone here today, that just as He (God) singled me out to bless in all areas of my life, He will do that same to you: if you listen to His voice. — Folorunsho Alakija
There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication. — Max De Pree
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. — Arnold Bennett
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life. — John D. Rockefeller
Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player. — Mia Hamm
Alone Life Motivation Quotes
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. — Albert Einstein
It is better to be alone than in bad company. — Unknown Author
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. — Caroline Myss
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. — Leo Buscaglia
You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years. — Jim Rohn
The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone. — Ross Parmenter
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl
If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability. — Shannon Leto
Self Motivation Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
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
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them! — Zig Ziglar
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. — Janis Joplin
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
Personal Motivation Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
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
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
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
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. — George Eliot
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. — Jean Beliveau
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. — Tony Robbins
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. — John Steinbeck
Be the compromise you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. — Cher
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C. S. Lewis
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. — William Bennett
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