Life is full of ups and downs, happiness and struggles that will test your integrity, push you to achieve more and leave you with strong lessons that will make you go higher on your way up. It all starts with a single thought. And this is where, inspirational and motivational quotes come in play. They have an amazing ability to change the way we feel about our life and change the quality of our thinking.

It is you who have to decide what you think in particular situation. Our thoughts determine our actions and action defines the result we get. And here in this article, I have collected amazing motivational words that will retune your thinking quickly. If you ever feel low, simply read these quotes to boost your mood.

Motivational Quotes

1. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

2. “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” –  Pope John XXIII

3. “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” – H. L. Hunt

4. “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.”

5. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

6. “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” – Ken Venturi

7. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam

8. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

9. “Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” – Pauline Kael

10. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.”

11. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” – George S. Patton

12. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

13. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey

14. “A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” – John Burroughs

15. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

16. “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.”

17. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” – Peter Marshall

18. “People Who Are Crazy Enough To Think They Can Change The World, Are The Ones Who Do.” – Rob Siltanen

19. “Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.”

20. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

21. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

22. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

23. “I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.” – Dean Koontz

24. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

25. “If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” – Steve Jobs

26. “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.”

27. “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson

28. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells

29. “The Man Who Has Confidence In Himself Gains The Confidence Of Others.” – Hasidic Proverb

30. “Courage is one step ahead of fear.” – Coleman Young

31. “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” – Og Mandino

32. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

33. “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

34. “You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland

35. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats

36. “Failure Will Never Overtake Me If My Determination To Succeed Is Strong Enough.” – Og Mandino

37. “It’s Not Whether You Get Knocked Down, It’s Whether You Get Up.” – Vince Lombardi

38. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins

39. “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking

40. “I Think Goals Should Never Be Easy, They Should Force You To Work, Even If They Are Uncomfortable At The Time.” – Michael Phelp

41. “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”

42. “Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.”

43. “Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” – Alfred A. Montapert

44. “For Every Reason It’s Not Possible, There Are Hundreds Of People Who Have Faced The Same Circumstances And Succeeded.” – Jack Canfield

45. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

46. “Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.” – Sasha Cohen

47. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome

48. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller        

49. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

50. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton

51. “You Learn More From Failure Than From Success. Don’t Let It Stop You. Failure Builds Character.” – Unknown

52. “I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.” – Dan Millman

53. “Focus on your goal. Don’t look in any direction but ahead.”

54. “You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest.”

55. “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” – Jessica Savitch

56. “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” – Epictetus

57. “You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.” – George S. Patton

58. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

59. “What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time.” – Don Zimmer

60. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”

61. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

62. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”

63. “When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.” – Natalie Gulbis

64. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

65. “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller

66. “Entrepreneurs Are Great At Dealing With Uncertainty And Also Very Good At Minimizing Risk. That’s The Classic Entrepreneur.” – Mohnish Pabrai

67. “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers

68. “There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.” – Richard Rorty

69. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand

70. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

71. “Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.” – Jerry West

72. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson

73. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

74. “The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

75. “Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.” – Nina Tassler

76. “Imagine Your Life Is Perfect In Every Respect; What Would It Look Like?” – Brian Tracy

77. “To be a good loser is to learn how to win.” – Carl Sandburg

78. “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

79. “Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” – Jim Rohn

80. “To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

81. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela

82. “Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?” – Eliza Dushku

83. “You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

84. “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.”

85. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

86. “When you fear your struggles, your struggles consume you. When you face your struggles, you overcome them.”

87. “You Don’t Have To Be Great To Start, But You Have To Start To Be Great.” – Zig Ziglar

88. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” – George Whitefield

89. “Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.”

90. “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.”

91. “We Generate Fears While We Sit. We Overcome Them By Action.” – Dr. Henry Link

92. “One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.” – Thomas Fuller

93. “You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.”

94. “I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.” – Rose Kennedy

95. “Whether You Think You Can Or Think You Can’t, You’re Right.” – Henry Ford

96. “There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!” – Edgar Cayce

97. “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.” – Katharine Hepburn

98. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”

99. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

100. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

101. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” – Zig Ziglar

102. “There are seven days in a week and someday isn’t one of them.” – Unknown

103. “You are so much more than what you are going through.” – John Tew

104. “The Way Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing.” – Walt Disney

105. “Great things never come from comfort zones.”

106. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” – Christopher Morley

107. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis

108. “You don’t always get what you wish for. But you always get what you work for.”

109. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

110. “Hustle until you no longer have to introduce yourself.”

111. “It’s not who you are that holds you behind, it’s who you think your are not.”

112. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou

113. “Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

114. “Do What You Can With All You Have, Wherever You Are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

115. “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis

116. “Fake It Until You Make It! Act As If You Had All The Confidence You Require Until It Becomes Your Reality.” – Brian Tracy

117. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

118. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.”

119. “Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.”

120. “Whatever is worrying you right now, forget about it. Take a deep breath, stay positive and know that things will get better.” – Unknown

121. “Passion first and everything will fall into place.” – Holly Holm

122. “Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”

123. “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”

124. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

125. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Barbara De Angelis

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