100 Powerful Motivational Quotes To Help You Conquer Life’s Challenges

Life often hits us with one thing after another.

Our boss reprimands us for not reaching a deadline, an unexpected expense arises that puts us behind on our rent, a family member becomes ill, and setbacks abound that seem almost hostile in nature. It’s hard enough to organize our thoughts as it is, but even harder to find the energy to solve our problems.

Sometimes, it seems like we just can’t get a break. But the problem really arises when challenges such as this mount. When that happens, we become overwhelmed and are most at risk of quitting on our dreams and goals.

Everyone feels like quitting at some point, get under the blanket and completely ignore everyone and everything. It happens to the best of us, but know that this “escape” is temporary. You should allow yourself a break every now and then; you need to recharge in order to start fresh, but never allow that break to last for too long and turn you into a quitter.

Quitting won’t make the challenges go away. The only way to truly handle our challenges is by facing them head on – and that requires a powerful, pure-burning motivation to take action despite these setbacks. But where do we get the necessary motivation from?

It is important to have at hand some encouraging quotes or a few uplifting quotes. You might underestimate their effect, but reading some can do magic for your current situation. They work like a pill that helps you get back on track and face your challenges with new energy.

Motivational quotes have proven themselves to be quite beneficial for many people. They inspire and remind you that “you got this”. It’s amazing how a few words can give us such an energy boost whenever we feel like giving up.

Take some time to go through our powerful quotes list and allow them to fill you up with the desire to accomplish great things again.

Here are 100 encouraging, uplifting quotes to help you do just that and conquer life’s many great challenges.

100 Powerful Motivational Quotes To Help You Conquer Life’s Challenges

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein (more quotes)

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

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– Jimmy Dean

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

– Mark Twain

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

– Michael Jordan

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

– Nelson Mandela (more quotes)

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”!

– Audrey Hepburn (more quotes)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

– Eleanor Roosevelt (more quotes)

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

– Henry Ford

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

– Alice Walker

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

– Oprah Winfrey (more )

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 that has been opened for us.

– Helen Keller (more quotes)

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

– George Addair

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

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

– Amelia Earhart (more quotes)

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

– George Whitefield

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

– Charles Swindoll

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

– Michael Phelps

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

– Babe Ruth

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

– Thomas A. Edison (more quotes)

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

– Aristotle Onassis

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

– Eleanor Roosevelt (more quotes)

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

– Og Mandino

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

– Vince Lombardi

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

– Winston Churchill (more quotes)

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

– Vincent Van Gogh

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

– Dalai Lama (more quotes)

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

– Henry Ford

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

– Maya Angelou (more )

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

– Confucius

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

– Roy T. Bennett

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

– Mark Cuban

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

– Nelson Mandela

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.

– Jim Rohn

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

– Francis of Assisi

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.

– Joel Osteen

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

– Helen Keller

Every problem is a gift –- without problems we would not grow.

– Tony Robbins

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

– Confucius

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

– Warren Buffett

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

– Zig Ziglar

We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you.  You are this person right now.  You’re the person who has learned from those failures.

– Joe Rogan

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

– Winston Churchill

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.

– Mark Cuban

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

– Richard Branson

Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

– Wayne Dyer

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

– Paulo Coelho

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

If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

– Jack Canfield

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.

– Chantal Sutherland

If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.

– Tony Robbins

It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.

– Jillian Michaels

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

– Pele

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

– Napoleon Hill

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

– Jim Rohn

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

Zig Ziglar

Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.

– Bob Riley

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

– Helen Keller

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

– Warren Buffett

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

– Les Brown

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

– Roy T. Bennett

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

– Dale Carnegie

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.

– Vivian Greene

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

– Richard Branson

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

– Charles Buxton

Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something…Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.

– Joe Rogan

The man who says he can, and the man who says he can’t are both correct.

– Confucius

You just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

– Mark Cuban

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. – Swati Sharma

Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.

– Joe Rogan

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

– Richard Branson

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 don’t need to be better than anyone else, you just need to be better than you used to be.

– Wayne Dyer

Fortune always favours the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

– P. T. Barnum

We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

– Barbara De Angelis

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.

– Tony Robbins

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.

– Elon Musk

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

– Stephen Covey

Life is not fair, get used to it!

– Bill Gates

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

– Steve Jobs

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

–Henry David Thoreau

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.

– Mark Twain

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.

– Mark Victor Hansen

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

– Dale Carnegie

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

– Jamie Paolinetti

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

– Estee Lauder

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

– George Eliot

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

– Joshua Marine

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

– Denis Waitley

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

– Maya Angelou

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

– Robert F. Kennedy

You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move.

– Eric Thomas

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and enjoying it for everything that it is.

– Mandy Hale

Matt Valentine 

Matt Valentine is a father, husband, and a self-published author. He writes weekly on his blog, Buddhaimonia.com, about everything from spirituality to self-mastery.