200+ Motivational Quotes for Success, Life, & Achievement – Copy

• In today’s busy world, staying motivated can be hard. Whether you’re trying to reach personal goals, dealing with work problems, or just trying to stay positive, a bit of inspiration can really help. This is where motivational quotes come in. They can lift your spirits, encourage you, and remind you of your potential. In this article, we’ll look at some of the best motivational quotes and how they can help you stay focused and driven.

Why Motivational Quotes Matter

Motivational quotes are more than just words, they are powerful tools that can transform your mindset and drive you towards success. Here’s why they matter

    Deep Motivational Quotes

• “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein

• “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” Mahatma Gandhi

• “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”  Mark Twain

• “The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” Norman Vincent Peale

• “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” Walter Anderson

• “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.” Diane McLaren

     Motivational Quotes About Success

• “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

• “He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.” Herman Melville

• “Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn’t produce what used to be artists.” Colin R. Davis

• “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” Henry David Thoreau
• “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” Dale Carnegie
• “There is no life that does not contribute to history.” Dorothy west
• “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.”Calvin Coolidge
• “How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements and into dreams that we can make come true.” Mister Rogers
• “I will say that he must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see that some great purpose and design is being worked out here below of which we have the honor to be the faithful servants.” Winston Churchill

      Motivational Quotes For Work

• “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”  Alexander Graham Bell

• “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” Jim Rohn
• “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson

• “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Paulo Coelho

• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison

• “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Tony Robbins

• “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

     Motivational Quotes For Women  

• “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” Madeleine Albright

• “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

• “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Ayn Rand

• “Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.” Cindy Gallop

• “Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.” Katherine Johnson
• “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” Frida Kahlo

• “Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” Oprah Winfrey
• “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.” Michelle Obama

• “I think the truth of the matter is, people who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love and it just so happens that they are the first to do it.” Condoleezza Rice
• “Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” Beyonce

• “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” Shonda Rhimes
• “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” Mae Jemison

• “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was around the corner.” Arlan Hamilton

       Motivational Quotes For Men

• “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.” Confucius
• “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein

• “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” Benjamin Disraeli

• “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” Confucius Kongzi

• “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” Dale Carnegie
• “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” Dvid Brinkley

      Motivational Quotes For Students

• “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” Mark Twain
• “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” Chinese proverb

• “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B. King
• “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” Plutarch

• “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

• “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
• “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” Babe Ruth

• “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” Mason Cooley

• “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” Zig Ziglar

• “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” Helen Hayes

• “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney

• “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Stills

• “I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” Elon Musk

• “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson

      Success Quotes

• “If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through.” Charlie Munger

• “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” Theodore Roosevelt

• “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” Vince Lombardi
• “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” Walt Disney

• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

• “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” John D. Rockefeller Jr.
• “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” –Thomas Jefferson

• “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”  Winston S. Churchill

       Funny Motivational Quotes

• “Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.” Michael Scott

• “The elevator to health, happiness, and success [for a salesman] is ‘out of order.’ You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” Joe Girard

• “Why is it a ‘close’ if it’s supposed to be the start of a customer relationship.” Anonymous

• “You don’t need a big close as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.”  Harvey Mackay

• “The best time to call me is email.” Anonymous

• “To be successful in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here’s what’s exciting there are lots of people!” Jim Rohn

• “Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back.” Dave Carolan

• “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” Zig Ziglar

      Team Motivational Quotes

• “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller 

• “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Henry Ford 

• “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” Oliver Wendell Holmes 

• “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton 
• “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” E. Luccock 

• “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” Andrew Carnegie 

• “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni

• “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” Jean-Francois Cope

      Best Motivational Quotes To Start Your Day

• “Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” Angela Bassett

• “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” Isabel Allende

• “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” David Ogilvy

• “I have stood on a mountain of no for one yes.” Barbara Elaine Smith

• “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” Anonymous

• “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier

• “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” Pablo Picasso

• “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing being wrong.” Peter T. McIntyre

• “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” Robert Anthony

       Motivational Monday Quotes

• “You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin.” Gordon B. Hinckley.

• “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” Marcus Aurelius

• “Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” David Dweck

• “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” Wayne Dyer

• “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” Lucille Ball

• “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” William James

• “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.” Germany Kent

      Positive Quotes For Motivation

• “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” Guy Kawasaki
• “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” Babe Ruth
• “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” Mario Andretti
• “Done is better than perfect.” Sheryl Sandberg
• “He that can have patience can have what he will.” Benjamin Franklin
• “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.” Jessica Ennis

• “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” Anne Lamott

• “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” Bo Jackson

• “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” Mia Hamm

       Daily Motivational Quotes

• “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Steve Jobs

• “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” Steve Jobs

• “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain

• “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” Napoleon Hill

• “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” Jim Rohn

      Inspirational Quotes

• “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” Edna Mode

• “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” Unknown

• “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” Steve Furtick

• “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Carl Sagan
• “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” Jay-Z

• “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” Arianna Huffington

• “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” Erica Jong

• “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” S. Lewis

• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw

• “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” K. Rowling

• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt

• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston S. Churchill

• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

• “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” Stephen Chbosk

• “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
• “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou

       Positive Quotes       

• “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi

• “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Mother Teresa

• “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr

• “Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Well done is better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin

• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”  Helen Keller

• “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle 

• “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde 

       More Motivating Quotes 

• “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”  Winston Churchill
• “To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.” Rosa Parks
• “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
• “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” Madam C.J. Walker
• “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billie Jean King
• “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.” Serena Williams
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
• “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.  Aristotle
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
• “All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.”  Viola Davis
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”  George Eliot
• “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” Muhammad Ali
• “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” Geena Davis
• “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” Toni Morrison
• “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”  Carol Burnett 

    Inspirational Quotes For The New Year

• “I think the more unexpected something is, the more there is to learn from it.” Michael J. Fox
• “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” Mary Oliver
• “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” David Bowie
• “The sky isn’t the limit—the sky has no limit.” Sarah Barker
• “Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” Craig Lounsbrough
• “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” Josiyah Martin
• “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” Steve Harvey
  

  Short Motivational Quotes

• “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” Chris Grosser
• “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” Gary Vaynerchuk
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
• “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” Les Brown
• “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” Mark Cuban
• “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen R. Covey
• “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” John Wooden
• “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disne                                                                       
  

    Friday Motivational Quotes    

• “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”  Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”  Mother Teresa
• “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon
• “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.”  Steve Jobs
• “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”  Albert Einstein
• “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”  Sam Levenson
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”  C.S. Lewis
• “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”  Sam Levenson
• “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”  John D. Rockefeller

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”  Nelson Mandela                                                           

     Deep Quotes   

•  “There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.” Oscar Wilde
• “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.” Julian Barnes
•  “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha
•  “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

 “Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.” Dr. Seuss

•  “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain

 “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein

• “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Rosa Parks

•  “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard

•  “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius

•  “It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein