Motivational quotes can help you reach your potential every day. Of course, those are just words. But those are positive words. And if you’re on the verge of giving up or struggling to push yourself to the next level, sometimes that’s all you need.
So, let’s take a look at what motivation is, how to motivate yourself and motivational quotes that will get you back on track. These motivational quotes will give your day a much needed start, so don’t forget to bookmark this page.
Whether you’re trying to finish a project, start something new, or achieve a big life goal, there are ways to motivate yourself and train your brain for success. Find out how you can help.
motivational quotes for work
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
— Carol Burnett
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.”
— Amal Clooney
“You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.”
— Duchess Meghan
“I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened … it’s normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please.”
— Taylor Swift
motivational quotes for success
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.”
— Dr. Phil
“People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.”
— Carrie Ann Moss
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
— Michelle Obama
“Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.”
— Marianne Cantwell
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
— Ella Fitzgerald
“Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.”
— Marlee Matlin
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance.”
— Morgan Freeman
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
— Anne Frank
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
— Earl Nightingale
“I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion.”
— Pink
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
— Roald Dahl
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
— Maya Angelou
powerful motivational quotes
“Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that’s great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that’s part of the process.”
— Naomi Osaka
“We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.”
— Amy Dickinson
“I’ve noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I’m grateful in the end.”
— Colleen Hoover
“Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled.”
— Mindy Kaling
“We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?”
— Jennifer Lopez
“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”
— George Harrison
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Zig Ziglar “I’m realizing how much I’ve diminished my own power. I’m not doing that no more.”
— Alicia Keys
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C.S. Lewis
“I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving.”
— Tina Turner
“How wild it was, to let it be.”
— Cheryl Strayed
“We all have problems. But it’s not what happens to us, [it ‘s] the choices we make after.”
— Elizabeth Smart
“You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender.”
— Mariah Carey
“When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly.”
— Annicken R. Day
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
— Toni Morrison
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
— Deepak Chopra
“It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
— Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
“I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential.”
— Nicki Minaj
“We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We’ve gotta listen more and talk less. We’ve gotta know that this is everybody’s responsibility.”
— Meghan Rapinoe
“Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.”
— Aretha Franklin
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
