Turbo Charge Your Thinking With 200+ Motivational Quotes

What is it about motivational quotes that make them so endearing? Every driven person eventually figures out that there's a whole lot of feel-good time wasters out there that suck us because they feel like work, and browsing endless lists of motivational phrases are no exception. And yet, there's hidden value in finding a concise expression that perfectly distills our own beliefs.

Motivational Quotes

1. “Success is something you attract by the person you become.” –Jim Rohn
2. “Tread softly; breathe peacefully; laugh hysterically.” –Nelson Mandela
3. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” -Helen Keller
4. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” –Dr. Seuss
5. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” –Jim Rohn
6. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” -Arthur Ashe
7. “Argue for your limitations and they’re yours.” -Richard Bach
8. “To know how to wait is the great secret of success.” –De Maistre
9. “It is our attitude toward life that determines life’s attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.” –Earl Nightingale.
10. “If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser.” -Les Brown
11. “The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.” –Joel Osteen
12. “Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity.” –Edward Counsel
13. “You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.” -Zig Ziglar
14. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” -John Wooden
15. “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” -Henry Ford
16. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
17. “Patience and fortitude conquer all things.” -Emerson
18. “Strive not to be of success, but rather to be of value. -Einstein
19. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” –Jim Rohn
20. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
22. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” -Bruce Lee
23. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” -Michael Jordan
24. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” -Lee Iacocca
25. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” -Henry Ford
26. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” -Bang Gae
27. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality.” – Jim Rohn
28. “Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” –Brian Tracy
29. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” -Muhammad Ali
30. “To endure is greater than to dare.” -Thackeray
31. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” -Helen Keller
32. “The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” -Phil Jackson
33. “Only you have the power to determine whether your future mimics your past.” -Skip Prichard
34. “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom” –Jim Rohn
35. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” –Zig Ziglar
36. “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” -Bill Bethel
37. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” –Nelson Mandela
38. “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture creating the building blocks for success.” -Ted Sundquist
39. “Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.” –Dan Miller
40. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” -Ken Blanchard
41. “No individual can win a game by himself.” -Pele
42. “You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.” –Jon Gordon
43. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” -Henry Ford
44. “Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.” –Jon Gordon
45. “Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.” -Steele
46. “Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” -Brian Tracy
47. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley
48. “Humility is the light of understanding.” -Bunyan
49. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.”– Laird Hamilton
50. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” -Zig Ziglar
51. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
52. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” –Jim Rohn
53. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” -Winston Churchill
54. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” -Epicurus
55. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” -Oscar Wilde
56. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller
57. “Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.” –Wilkie Collins
58. “If I fail, it will be for lack of ability, and not of purpose.” -Lincoln
59. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution.” -Brian Tracy
60. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein
61. “If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.” –Barack Obama
62. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary
63. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” -Zig Ziglar
64. “Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.” –Jon Gordon
65. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson
66. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” -Napoleon Hill
67. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” –Tony Robbins
68. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Picasso
69. “Passion is more developed than discovered.” –Dan Miller
70. “Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” –Brian Tracy
71. “No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.” –Dan Miller
72. “Fear kills more people than death.” –Gen. Patton
73. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” -Charles Spurgeon
74. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”– Ben Hogan
75. “Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.” –Dan Miller
76. “You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.” –Zig Ziglar
77. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” -Earl Nightingale
78. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” -Bill Gates
79. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain
80. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” -Jim Rohn
81. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” -Zig Ziglar
82. “Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa
83. “Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.” –Dan Miller
84. “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” -Napoleon Hill
85. ”I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” -Nelson Mandela
86. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” -George Bernard Shaw
87. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -Zig Ziglar
88. “The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God’s purpose.” –Oswald Chambers
89. “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” –Brian Tracy
90. “Continual learning is the key to continual living.” –Dan Miller
91. “Troubles, like babies, grow large by nursing.” –Lady Holland
92. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” -Michael Jordan
93. “Your best days are still out in front of you.” –Joel Osteen
94. “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” -Henry Ford
95. “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” -Theodore N. Vail
96. “Simplicity is nature’s first step, and the last of art.” –P.J. Bailey
97. “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” -Zig Ziglar
98. “Wisdom is only found in truth.” -Goethe
99. ”Lead from the back, and let others believe they are in front.” –Nelson Mandela
100. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” –Brian Tracy
101. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” -Herman Melville
102. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” -Virgil
103. “After climbing a great hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb.” –Nelson Mandela
104. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” -Truman Capote
105. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John R. Wooden
106. “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”– Paul “Bear” Bryant
107. “Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.” –Earl Nightingale.
108. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” -Maya Angelou
109. “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” -Tom Landry
110. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” -Zig Ziglar
111. “Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.” –Jon Gordon
112. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” -Bo Jackson
113. ”Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” –Nelson Mandela
114. “To design your future effectively, you must let go of your past.” –Charles Givens
115. “A spirit of thankfulness attracts others to your cause, ideas and goals.” -Skip Prichard
116. “Trials teach us what we are.” -Spurgeon
117. “Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.” –Franklin
118. “Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.” –John Wanamaker
119. “I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.” -Ruskin
120. “See the best in people and watch how they fight to prove you right.” -Skip Prichard
121. ”Happy people plan actions; they don’t plan results.” -Denis Waitley
122. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius
123. “You give loyalty, you’ll get it back.” -Tommy Lasorda
124. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” –Nelson Mandela
125. “Better to wear out than rust out.” –Bishop Cumberland
126. “Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.” –Dan Miller
127. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
128. “It’s not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.” –Nelson Mandela
129. “Imagination is the eye of the soul.” –Joubert
130. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” -Wayne Dyer
131. “There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” -Henry Ford
132. “Don’t wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.” –Dan Miller
133. “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” –Nelson Mandela
134. “Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable before you decide what’s possible.”  -Brian Tracy
135. “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” -Goethe
136. “Quitting is leading too.” –Nelson Mandela
137. “Contentment is the enemy of improvement.” -Thai Nguyen
138. “Think big, act bold, start simple, and iterate fast.” –John Patrick
139. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” –Napoleon
140. “If you learn from defeat, you have not really lost.” -Zig Ziglar
141. “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” –Benjamin Disraeli
142. “Life and success are about what you choose to believe.” –Jon Gordon
143. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” –Lao Tzu
144. “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” -Zig Ziglar
145. “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” -Thomas Carlyle
146. “The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope.” -Shakespeare
147. “People teach us remarkable lessons if we are open to learning.” –Skip Prichard
148. “You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.” –John Wanamaker
149. “Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.” –Walter Scott
150. “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest.” –Dalai Lama
151. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
152. “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” –Napoleon
153. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” –Bil Keane
154. “You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.” –Jon Gordon
155. “Hope is a waking dream.” –Aristotle
156. “We’d achieve more if we chased our dreams instead of our competition.” -Simon Sinek
157. “A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” -Stendhal
158. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
159. “Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.” –Bertrand Russell
160. “The best fighter is never angry.” -Lao Tzu
161. “Discipline is remembering what you want.” -David Campbell
162. “The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.” –Stephen Covey
163. “Happiness is a byproduct of making someone else happy.” -Gretta Brooker Palmer
164. “He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.” -Socrates
165. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” -Henry Ford
166. “One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of your attention.” –Jim Rohn
167. “I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” –Billie Jean King
168. “Better hope deferred than none.” –Samuel Beckett
169. “Hope is the spur of life.” –Edward Counsel
170. “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” –Richard Evans
171. “You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind.” –Zig Ziglar
172. “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”  –Francis Bacon
173. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” –Jim Rohn
174. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last.  Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar
175. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” -Booker T. Washington
176. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” -Zig Ziglar
177. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs
178. “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.” -Henry Ford
179. “You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” –Jim Whittaker
180. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” -Theodore Roosevelt
181. “To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.” –Virginia Woolf
182. “Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.” –Chesterton
183. “The only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” -Zig Ziglar
184. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Rohn
185. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” -Zig Ziglar
186. “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” -Hansa Proverb
187. “If you don’t program yourself, life will program you!” -Les Brown
188. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” –Jim Rohn
189. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.’” -Henry Ford
190. “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” –John E. Southard
191. “I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, it must be gratitude.” –Benjamin Disraeli
192. “Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” –Jim Rohn
193. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” –Thornton Wilder
194. ”Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.” –Alfred Painter
195. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment” –Jim Rohn
196. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” -Zig Ziglar
197. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -Henry Ford
198. “You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.” –Earl Nightingale.
199. “Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.” -Brian Tracy
200. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
201. “Only do what your heart tells you to do.” -Princess Di
202. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” –Tony Robbins
203. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt
204. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
205. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
206. “Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.” –Jon Gordon
207. “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” -John Mason