for one reason… MOTIVATION.

While it’s sometimes difficult to know our purpose or the meaning of life, we must thrive and move forward. And what better way to move forward than to learn from those who have lived and shared their words of wisdom. So whether you’re lacking motivation or just need a little push to get going, get ready to be seriously motivated!

Here are the best motivational quotes to encourage you to do more, be more, and empower you to reach for your goals.

200+ Quotes To Motivate You Right Now

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”– Joe Kennedy

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”– Chris Grosser

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”– Anatole France

“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”– Anonymous

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”– Aristotle

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

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”– Arnold Palmer

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”– Arthur Ashe

“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.”– Barbara Baron

“If you continue to think they way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” – Kevin Trudeau

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”– Benjamin Disraeli

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.”– Benny Lewis

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”– Bill Gates

“Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.”– Bobby Unser

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”– Booker T. Washington

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.”– Booker T. Washington

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”– Bruce Feirstein

“Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”– Charles Dickens

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”– Coco Chanel

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”– Colin R. Davis

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”– CS Lewis

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”– Dalai Lama

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

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”– David Brinkley

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”– Denis Watiley

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”– Dale Carnegie

“Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.”– Dragos Roua

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

“There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”– Edith Wharton

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”– Francis Chan

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”– Farrah Gray

“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

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”– George Lorimer

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

“Whether you think you can, or you can’t – either way you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.”– Gurbaksh Chahal

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”– Harriet Beecher Stow

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“Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”– Winston Churchill

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”– Henry David Thoreau

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”– Herman Melville

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”– Jamie Paolinetti

“There is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”– Jane Smiley

“The work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”– Jessica Hische

“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.”– Jim Rohn

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”– John C. Maxwell

“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“There are two kinds of people in this world; those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.”– John C. Maxwell

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”– John D. Rockefeller

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”– John Wooden

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”– John Wooden

“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of