100 Motivational Sayings/Quotes That Will Keep You Motivated

Reading motivational quotes can be a great mood lifter when you feel the blues. Reading motivational sayings is a great way to keep yourself motivated and to move to the next level.

Is it your exam today, or suddenly for some reason you feel dejected or you may even feel that the whole world is against you, reading motivational quotes helps you keep upbeat and calm.

1. We are what we think. - Buddha
2. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha
3. Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. - Kenneth Hildebrand
4. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than youever dreamed yourself to be. - Patanjali – the author of Yoga Sutra
5. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Shelley
6. In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. - Socrates
7. Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. - Unknown
8. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey
9. Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. - Souza
10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar
11. Men's best successes come after their disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher
12. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
13. You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not? - George Bernard Shaw
14. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
15. Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. - Gary Ryan Blair
16. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey
17. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
18. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. - Mahatma Gandhi
19. Nobody can hurt me without my permission. - Mahatma Gandhi
20. Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington
21. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Obama
22. If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. - Obama
23. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein
24. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. - Greg Anderson
25. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. - Bill Gates
26. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin.
27. This world is but canvas to our imaginations. - Henry David Thoreau
28. All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
29. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. - Wayne Dyer
30. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun
31. This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it - John Dalton
32. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln
33. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
34. Being number two sucks. - Andre Agassi
35. The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it. - Don Shula
36. Under pressure you can perform fifteen percent better or worse. - Scott Hamilton
37. Ninety percent of the game is half mental. - Yogi Berra
38. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey
39. Be the dream. - John Chaney
40. Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. - Albert Einstein
41. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown
42. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
43. An obstacle is often a stepping stone. - Prescott
44. Replace the word "problem" with the word "opportunity" in all your thoughts. - Matthew Keith Groves
45. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle
46. Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Anon
47. Never Give Up - Winston Churchill
48. Who dares wins. - Winston Churchill
49. The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your attitude - Dennis S Brown
50. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt
51. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
52. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali
53. He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. - Leonardo da Vinci
54. If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods - Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill
56. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
57. Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. - David Frost
58. Life is never free of contradictions. - Dr. Manmohan Singh
59. Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Dr. Robert Schuller
60. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley
61. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. - Helen Keller
62. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. - Peter Drucker
63. What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter. - Anonymous
64. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie
65. The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. - Lee Iacocca
66. You don't have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they do. - Mark Victor Hansen
67. True motivation comes from within - from the willingness to see a dream fulfilled - from the desire to leave the world better than you found it. - Steve Brunkhorst
68. There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. - Paul J. Meyer
69. Genius is eternal patience. - Michaelangelo
70. Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. - Van Gogh
71. Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged way of thinking, they’re in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. - Michael Bernard Beckwith
72. Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome.” - Arthur Ashe Jr
73. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. - Beverly Sills
74. Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. - Norman Vincent Peale
75. Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
76. The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. - Benjamin Mays
77. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. - Dale Carnegie
78. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
79. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward
80. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
81. Man is what he believes – Anton Chekov.
82. Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen
83. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
84. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand - Chinese Proverb
85. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
86. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. - Dan Stanford
87. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Dr. Denis Waitley
88. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. - Unknown
89. The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt
90. Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. - Unknown
91. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined. - Unknown
92. Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan
93. The road to success runs uphill. - Willie Davis
94. A man only learns in 2 ways, one by reading and the other by association with smarter people. - Will Rogers
95. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well. - Unknown
96. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu
97. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. - Dale Carnegie
98. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan
99. There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit. - Oprah Winfrey
100. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey

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