Motivational Quotes & Thoughts

Dreams and Ambitions

1. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. "Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan
3. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." – Henry David Thoreau
4. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
5. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." – Charles Kingsleigh
6. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars." – Norman Vincent Peale
7. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney
8. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
9. "If you can dream it, you can do it." – Walt Disney
10. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." – Albert Schweitzer

Overcoming Challenges

1. "The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph." – George Washington
2. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi
3. "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." – Seneca
4. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
5. "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." – Molière
6. "Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." – Tony Robbins
7. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
8. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
9. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
10. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine

Persistence and Determination

1. "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." – Confucius
2. "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." – Arnold H. Glasow
3. "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." – Will Rogers
4. "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot
5. "Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas Edison
6. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." – John Quincy Adams
7. "Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you." – Denis Waitley
8. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela
9. "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
10. "The toils of the road will seem nothing when we reach the end of our journey." – Joseph Chamberlain

Growth and Change

1. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts
2. "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia
3. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn
4. "We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are." – Max DePree
5. "Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves." – Mahatma Gandhi
6. "Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay." – Simone de Beauvoir
7. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." – Viktor E. Frankl
8. "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. "Growth is the only evidence of life." – John Henry Newman
10. "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." – Lao Tzu

Mindset and Attitude

1. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." – Zig Ziglar
2. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford
4. "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me." – David Bailey
5. "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." – Winston Churchill
6. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
7. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." – Helen Keller
8. "The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up." – Harrison Ford
9. "Your attitude determines your direction." – Unknown
10. "The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down." – Stephen Richards

Taking Action

1. "Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers
2. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh
4. "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." – Ralph Marston
5. "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." – Peter Marshall
6. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain
7. "Without action, you aren't going anywhere." – Mahatma Gandhi
8. "Dreams don’t work unless you do." – John C. Maxwell
9. "An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention." – Steve Maraboli
10. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney

Strength and Resilience

1. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." – Napoleon Hill
2. "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." – Bruce Lee
3. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." – Ernest Hemingway
4. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions." – Louisa May Alcott
5. "Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed." – Bob Riley
6. "You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley
7. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche
8. "Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway
9. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." – Khalil Gibran
10. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett

Courage and Fearlessness

1. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela
2. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt
3. "Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair
4. "The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." – Meg Cabot
5. "Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill
6. "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." – Baltasar Gracian
7. "Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you." – Bethany Hamilton
8. "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." – John Wayne
10. "Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it." – Bryce Courtenay

Wisdom and Reflection

1. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle
2. "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." – Socrates
3. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu
4. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
5. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
6. "It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see." – Henry David Thoreau
7. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
8. "The past has no power over the present moment." – Eckhart Tolle
9. "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." – Marilyn vos Savant
10. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk." – Doug Larson