Words that Motivate: Famous Motivational Quotes and Sayings

A collection of some of the most famous and best motivational quotes & sayings from famous authors. These messages from renowned thinkers will inspire and motivate you to reach your full potential. Check out these best quotes on motivation and get motivated.

Top 10 Motivational Quotes

1. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."― Lou Holtz
2. "You are stronger than you seem, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think.” ― Christopher Robin
3. "Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." — Stephen R. Covey
4. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. " ― Foster C. McClellan
5. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." ― Helen Keller
6. "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. " ― Norman Vincent Peale
7. "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” ― Ayn Rand
8. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” ― Stephen Covey
9. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." —Jimmy Dean
10. "The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." — Charles Dickens

Motivational Quotes from Renowned Masters

Here are some motivational and uplifting quotes from renowned masters to motivate and inspire you. These powerful motivating messages from masters help you to unleash your inner strength and reach your goals.

Believe in yourself, take the leap of faith and watch the universe conspire to make your dreams a reality.
Tony Robbins

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien

We tend to live up to our expectations.
Earl Nightingale

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why werecommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Richard M. DeVos

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
Richard Bach

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
Napoleon Hill

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Most Famous Motivational Quotes and Sayings That Can Change Your Day

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

If you miss an opportunity, don't close your eyes with tears and feel sad; keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one.
Unknown

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

You don't get what you wish for, you get what you work for.
Daniel Milstein

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

Short Quotes for Motivation

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will Rogers

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

You are never too young to try something big.
Dave Gilboa

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine

You are never a failure until you give up.
Unknown

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

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

(Updated on 12/10/2024)