100 Motivational Quotes that Will Inspire You

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Found yourself searching for a little extra motivation to push through a tough day? You’re not alone! World’s most successful people, from Oprah to Bill Gates, confessed to looking up motivational quotes as well. 

In today’s post, you will find a list of 100 motivational quotes that will certainly lift your mood and fuel your drive. Not only, but I also created 30 phone wallpapers that you can download for free!

Before we start, I’d like to mention that here are 2 ways in which you could approach the list:

• Passively – Scrolling down on your phone, maybe only to grab those cool wallpapers (I mean, can’t blame you)
• Actively – Choosing which quotes feel ‘yours’ and thinking of how you can apply them to your life

You are in the driver’s seat, so you decide what the outcome of this will be.

You can leave this webpage the same as when you opened it, so you’ll have wasted 5 minutes of your time (by the way, it’s still less time than you waste on TikTok). Or you can find your new powerful mantra, that reminds you what next step you should take.

Are you ready to get empowered and inspired? Then, let’s get started!

THE BEST 10 QUOTES OF ALL-TIME

1. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
2. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” ― Marcel Pagnol
3. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
4. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happiness)
5. “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” – Vernon Howard
6. “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
7. “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, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain
8. “Wherever you go, there you are.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
9. “To get what you want in life you must develop the ability to think in the way that will support your goals and dreams.” – Denise J. Hart
10. “Failing to plan is planning to fail” – Benjamin Franklin

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT MINDSET

1. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
2. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
3. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today”  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
5. “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
6. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
7. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
8. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
10. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
11. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
12. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” — Lao-Tze
13. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
14. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” — Mary Kay Ash 
15. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J. K. Rowling
16. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.” – Steve Maraboli
17. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” – Buddha
18. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

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MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT SUCCESS

1. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
2. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
3. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
4. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have” – Thomas Jefferson
5. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, whether you learn from it; or whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama
6. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
7. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
8. “It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
9. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
10. “Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
11. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” – Van Gogh
12. “Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.” – Michelle Obama
13. “Don’t Wait for Opportunity, Create it” – George Bernard
14. “The Real Risk is Doing Nothing” – Denis Waitley

UPLIFTING MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

1. “The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates
2. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
3. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
4. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
5. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” — Epictetus
6. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
7. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Oppenheim
8. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
9. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie
10. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ― Guillaume Apollinaire
11. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli
12. “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
13. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.” ― Epictetus
14. “One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.” — Leo Tolstoy
15.  “Happiness is only real when shared.” ― Christopher McCandless

BEST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
2. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
3. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up” – Thomas A. Edison
4. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
5. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
6. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
7. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
8. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
9. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
10. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”  – Mark Twain
11. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
12. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
13. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” – Elbert Hubbard
14. “Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.” – Sean Covey
15. “We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” – Max Depree
16. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
17. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
18. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” – Artistocle

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

1. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
2. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
3. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
4. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
5. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
6. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
7. “Always do what you are afraid of doing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who end up doing it.” – Steve Jobs
9. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
10. “There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” – Henry Ford
11. ”If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.” – Walt Disney
12. “There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – Norman Vincent Peale
13. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey

LIFE-CHANGING MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

1. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
2. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley
3. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
4. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” –  Henry Ford
5. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
6. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” — Seneca
7. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
9. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy
10. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
11. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
12. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” – Bob Marley

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Last but not least, I would like to conclude this post with a personal quote:

“We don’t choose where we come from, but we decide where we want to go. Which direction do you want your life to take? Take it. You’re the pilot”.

Oh, I almost forgot – Here are your 30 phone wallpapers!

I hope you found your new mantra in this list of motivational quotes. In case you didn’t, I still hope that you’re leaving this page a little more inspired.

Now, it is time to put into practice what you’ve just learned. 

So go work on the thing that can change the world. Go work on the thing that, first of all, can change you.

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