100+ Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You

Inspirational quotes can encourage us to get up, take action, escape our comfort zone to do the hard work that needs doing. They can help you reach your potential each day.

These motivational quotes can help you by harnessing the power of positive thinking when you are on the verge of giving up or struggling to push yourself to the next level.

Great quotes can be inspirational and motivational. Here are the best inspirational quotes to motivate you!

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succour you want is within yourself.” — Swami Vivekananda

“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.” ― Alexander the Great

“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

“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

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

“Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.” — Beyoncé

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” — Madonna

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

“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

“If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” — Muhammad Ali

“I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.” ― Cicely Tyson

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ―Chinese Proverb

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth

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

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ―Dalai Lama XIV

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” —Unknown

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” —Isabelle Lafleche

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” —Elon Musk

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller

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

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ―Tim Notke

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ― Jimmy Dean

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ― Nelson Mandela

“If you believe it will work, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” ― Wayne Dyer

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ― Will Rogers

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ― Napoleon Hill

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ― Sun Tzu

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ― Lao Tzu

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ― Samuel Beckett

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ― Thomas A. Edison

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ― Benjamin Franklin

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ― John C. Maxwell

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ― Mark Twain

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ― Walt Disney

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ― William Arthur Ward

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ― Nelson Mandela

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ― Winston Churchill

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ― Buddha

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

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

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. ― Muhammad Ali

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ― Francis of Assisi

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

What we think, we become. ― Buddha

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” ― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ― Alexander the Great

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. ― Les Brown

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ― Bruce Lee

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ― Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ― Dale Carnegie

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ― Swami Sivananda

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ― Muhammad Ali

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ― Muhammad Ali

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ― Vince Lombardi

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. ― Charles Swindoll

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. ― Oprah Winfrey

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ― Jimmy Dean

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ― Les Brown

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ― Albert Einstein

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. ― Stephen Covey

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ― Henry Ford

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ― Albert Einstein

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ― Leonardo da Vinci

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. ― Benjamin Disraeli

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. ― George Addair

Nothing will work unless you do. ― Maya Angelou

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. – Swami Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. – Swami Vivekananda

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. – Swami Vivekananda

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. – Swami Vivekananda

Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear. – Swami Vivekananda

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. Stand up and express the divinity within you. – Swami Vivekananda

Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. – Swami Vivekananda

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within
yourself. – Swami Vivekananda

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. – Swami Vivekananda

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. – Swami Vivekananda

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. – Swami Vivekananda

Take Risks in Your Life If you win, you Can Lead! If you lose, you can Guide! – Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you.

Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‘what can I give’ spirit.

Inspirational quotes by Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is the greatest heavyweight boxer born in Louisville, Kentucky, US on January 17, 1942- died June 3, 2016, Scottsdale, Arizona. He won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Muhammad Ali won the world heavyweight championship at the age of 22 in 1964 by defeating Sonny Liston. Muhammad Ali was the first fighter to win the world heavyweight championship 3 times and successfully defended this title 19 times.

Here is a list of some of his best inspirational quotes (in no particular order):

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

You could be the world’s best garbage man, the world’s best model; it don’t matter what you do if you’re the best

What I suffered physically was worth what I’ve accomplished in life.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

I can’t see what God’s plan is. I just know I’ve got to live with it.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

A man who has no imagination has no wings.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If not pretend you are.

Its lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

You’re not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you’ll find at the end will make it all worth it.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true of life.

We all have to take defeats in life.

It’s hard to beat a guy when he’s got his mind made up that he’s going to win.

Once the choice is made, do not look back, do not second-guess your decisions.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning.

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

I’ve never really resented hard work because I’ve always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o’clock. I never change my pattern.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

What keeps me going is goals.

I don’t count the sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count. That’s what makes you a champion.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Don’t count the days. Make the days count

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I was really the greatest.

Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. You can’t hit what your eyes don’t see.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I know where I am going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.

Zig Ziglar Quotes

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Every choice you make has an end result.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

You do not pay the price of success; you enjoy the price of success.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Inspirational Walt Disney Quotes about dreams, life & greatness

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I believe in being an innovator.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Inspirational Quotes by Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.Will Rogers

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‘Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it doesn’t go up, don’t buy it.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Inspiring quotes by Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Do all things with love.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It’s so important to get back up again.

The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

Always Seek Out The Seed Of Triumph In Every Adversity.

There Is No Better Than Adversity. Every Defeat, Every Heartbreak, Every Loss, Contains Its Own Seed, Its Own Lesson On How To Improve Your Performance The Next Time.

Obstacles Are Necessary For Success Because In Selling, As In All Careers Of Importance, Victory Comes Only After Many Struggles And Countless Defeats. Yet Each Struggle, Each Defeat, Sharpens Your Skills And Strengths, Your Courage And Your Endurance, Your Ability And Your Confidence And Thus Each Obstacle Is A Comrade-In-Arms Forcing You To Become Better Or Quit. Each Rebuff Is An Opportunity To Move Forward; Turn Away From Them, Avoid Them, And You Throw Away Your Future.

Always Reward Your Long Hours Of Labor And Toil In The Very Best Way, Surrounded By Your Family. Nurture Their Love Carefully, Remembering That Your Children Need Models, Not Critics, And Your Own Progress Will Hasten When You Constantly Strive To Present Your Best Side To Your Children. And Even If You Have Failed At All Else In The Eyes Of The World, If You Have A Loving Family, You Are A Success.

Super Inspiring Quotes

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self. — The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. — Bikram Choudhury, Indian-born-American yoga teacher

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. — Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker

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, American minister and author

To double your income and success, triple your investment in personal development and professional mastery. — Robin Sharma, Canadian writer

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. — Les Brown, American motivational speaker

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. — Madonna, American singer

Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can. — Zig Ziglar

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. — Stephen King, American author

Quotes by Dwayne Johnson

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

When life puts you in touchy situations, don’t say “Why Me?” Just say “Try Me.

When you walk up to opportunities door, don’t knock it… Kick that b*tch in, smile and introduce yourself.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

You don’t need directions, just point yourself to the top and go!

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, “Awe sh”t, they’re up

If something stands between you and your success – move it. Never be denied.

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus and effort. And we control both.

Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Think back 5 years ago. Think of where you’re at today. Think ahead 5 years and what you want to accomplish. Be Unstoppable.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The road to success and greatness is always paved with consistent hard work. Outwork your competitors, be authentic, and above all else, chase your greatness.

Let your actions do your talking for you.

Just bring it!

Inspiring quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Inspiring quotes by Oprah Winfrey

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

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.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be.

When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

I’m black, I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it’s a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me.

Inspiring Quotes by John C. Maxwell

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Leadership is influence.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Inspiring quotes by Steve Jobs

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

Quotes by Bruce Lee

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Jim Rohn

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I do not seek. I find.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It takes a long time to become young.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Everything you can imagine is real.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Youth has no age.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

Disciples be damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those who create.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Inspiring quotes by Sam Walton

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

We’re all working together; that’s the secret.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

I’ve never been one to dwell on reverses.

All of us profit from being corrected – if we’re corrected in a positive way.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient.

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Inspirational Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

Successful people don’t fear failure, but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky… you’re mindset does.

If you are not successful, that means you’re not making enough mistakes.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

Don’t stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

Being an entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes strength of character to keep going.

Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

Don’t just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.

You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.

Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

You don’t achieve success by “taking it easy” or “working on it later.” You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive

Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I’m not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

It’s not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It’s about who learned from it.