Words have power to uplift our spirits and ignite our drive. Within this inspiring collection of 100 motivational quotes lies kindling to rekindle passion for your goals whenever inspiration may flag.
100 Motivational Quotes That Help You to Reach Your Goals
From titans of industry to cultural figures, each voice shares candid insights born from hard-won experience. As you browse these wise reflections, open your mind to renewed determination and belief in your own potential for growth. Let these thoughts empower you to embrace challenges with renewed vigor and commitment to consistent progress.
01. Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
02. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar TWEET THIS
03. When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
Arsene Wenger
04. If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem
05. Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
Michael Schumacher TWEET THIS
06. My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
Rafael Nadal
07. If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
08. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
09. If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward
10. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine TWEET THIS
11. Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown
12. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
Abby Wambach
14. I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary
15. The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.
Nonito Donaire
16. I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Valentino Rossi
17. I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
Andy Murray
18. A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley
19. The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
Valentino Rossi
20. If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
Jane McGonigal
21. We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
22. Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Michael Shermer
23. Expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
Donald Norman
24. Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
Matthew McConaughey
25. Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
Bella Thorne
26. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston TWEET THIS
27. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
28. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
29. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
30. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
31. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
32. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
33. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
34. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
35. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
36. If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
37. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
38. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
39. Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert
40. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
41. 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
42. 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
43. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
44. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
45. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe TWEET THIS
46. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
47. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
48. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
49. A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
50. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar TWEET THIS
51. Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
52. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
53. 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
54. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
55. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
56. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews TWEET THIS
57. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
58. Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
59. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
60. Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
61. I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm
62. 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
63. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy TWEET THIS
64. Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer
65. Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
66. Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
67. I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
68. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome
69. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
70. The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
71. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
72. Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
73. Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz
74. 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
75. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton
76. Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
77. If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
78. 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
79. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
80. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
81. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton
82. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield
83. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
84. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
85. Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve
86. 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
87. 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
88. You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
89. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk
90. 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
91. The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt
92. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
93. I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
94. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler TWEET THIS
95. 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
96. There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
97. I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
Rose Kennedy
98. One of the best things that you could ever do for your life, is to follow your passion, turn it into a dream, and introduce it to the light of reality.
Edmond Mbiaka
99. Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas
100. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine TWEET THIS
Final Thoughts
While external praise and comparisons can motivate, true drive emerges from within when we listen to our own voices.
May the insights shared here sparkintrospection on your deepest motivations and how to nurture them with care.
However grand or modest your aims, consistency matters most. With each small step taken in faith, your dreams draw nearer.
Even on days when success seems distant, remember that failure is just life's way of gently urging us toward reinvention and resilience.
Wishing you the courage to keep learning through each endeavor. May inspiration be your constant companion on the journey toward bringing your gifts and talents fully to light.
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