Inspirational quotes and
motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can
even give us the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. In my book, 4 Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment at Work, I share surprising research into the true triggers of
workplace motivation. So in the spirit of self motivation, here are 100
inspirational quotes.
See quotes below:
1.
Whatever the mind of man
can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
2.
Your time is limited, so
don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
3.
Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4.
Two roads diverged in a
wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
–Robert Frost
5.
The common question that
gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid
question is, ‘why not?’ -Jeffrey Bezos
6.
You miss 100% of the shots
you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
7.
I’ve missed more than 9000
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
8.
Every strike brings me
closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
9.
Definiteness of purpose is
the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
10.
Life is what happens to you
while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
11.
We become what we think
about. –Earl Nightingale
12.
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, catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
13.
Life is 10% what happens to
me and 90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell
14.
If you do what you’ve
always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
15.
The mind is everything.
What you think you become. –Buddha
16.
The best time to plant a
tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
17.
An unexamined life is not
worth living. –Socrates
18.
Eighty percent of success
is showing up. –Woody Allen
19.
Don’t wait. The time will
never be just right. –Napoleon Hill
20.
Winning isn’t everything,
but wanting to win is.
–Vince Lombardi
21.
I am not a product of my
circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
22.
Every child is an
artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo
Picasso
23.
You can never cross the
ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher
Columbus
24.
I’ve learned that people
will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
25.
Either you run the day, or
the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
26.
Whether you think you can
or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
27.
The two most important days
in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
28.
Whatever you can do, or
dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29.
The best revenge is massive
success. –Frank Sinatra
30.
People often say that
motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we
recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
31.
Inspiration exists, but it
must find you working. –Pablo Picasso
32.
If you hear a voice within
you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be
silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
33.
There is only one way to
avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
34.
Obstacles are those
frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. –Henry Ford
35.
The only person you are
destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
36.
Go confidently in the
direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David
Thoreau
37.
When I stand before God at
the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent
left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
38.
Successful people are
always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are
always asking, “What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
39.
Certain things catch your
eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
40.
Believe you can and you’re
halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
41.
Everything you’ve ever
wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
42.
We can easily forgive a
child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are
afraid of the light. –Plato
43.
Once you choose hope,
anything’s possible. –Christopher Reeve
44.
Start where you are. Use
what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
45.
When I was 5 years old, my
mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to
school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down
‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them
they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
46.
Fall seven times and stand
up eight. –Japanese Proverb
47.
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 that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
48.
Everything has beauty, but
not everyone can see. –Confucious
49.
How wonderful it is that
nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne
Frank
50.
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
51.
The difference between a
successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge
but rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
52.
Happiness is not something
readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
53.
The only way of finding the
limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. –Arthur C.
Clarke
54.
First, have a definite,
clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means
to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all
your means to that end. –Aristotle
55.
If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
56.
You can’t fall if you don’t
climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
–Unknown
57.
Whoever loves much,
performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
–Vincent Van Gogh
58.
Too many of us are not
living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
59.
Challenges are what make
life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J.
Marine
60.
The way to get started is
to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
61.
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
62.
Limitations live only in
our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become
limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
63.
Expose yourself to your
deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks
and vanishes. You are free. –Jim Morrison
64.
What’s money? A man is a
success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between
does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
65.
I didn’t fail the test. I
just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
66.
In order to succeed, your
desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
67.
A person who never made a
mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
68.
The person who says it
cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese
Proverb
69.
There are no traffic jams
along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
70.
It is never too late to be
what you might have been. –George Eliot
71.
You become what you
believe. –Oprah Winfrey
72.
I would rather die of
passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
73.
A truly rich man is one
whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
74.
It is not what you do for
your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will
make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers
75.
If you want your children
to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
–Abigail Van Buren
76.
Build your own dreams, or
someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
77.
Without deviation from the
norm, progress is not possible. –Frank Zappa
78.
Education costs
money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
79.
Remember that the happiest
people are not those getting more, but those giving more. –H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
80.
It does not matter how
slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
81.
Let the refining and
improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
82.
Remember that not getting
what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
83.
You can’t use up creativity.
The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
84.
Dream big and dare to fail.
–Norman Vaughan
85.
Our lives begin to end the
day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
86.
Do what you can, where you
are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
87.
The most common way people
give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
88.
Dreaming, after all, is a
form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
89.
It’s your place in the
world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life
you want to live. –Mae Jemison
90.
You may be disappointed if
you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
91.
Remember no one can make
you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
92.
Life is what we make it,
always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
93.
The question isn’t who is
going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
94.
When everything seems to be
going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not
with it. –Henry Ford
95.
It’s not the years in your
life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
96.
Change your thoughts and
you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
97.
Either write something
worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
98.
Nothing is impossible, the
word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
99.
The only way to do great
work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
100. If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
–Zig Ziglar
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