99 Motivational Quotes

 If you think someone could use a friend. Be one. Unknown

Begin anywhere. John Cage

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

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. Mahatma Gandhi

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. Zig Ziglar

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore. Lady Gaga

Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships. Michael Jordan

There is no doubt that short rap quotes remind me that I can do anything I set my mind to.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. Sheryl Sandberg

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. Simon Sinek

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash

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

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. Napoleon Hill

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton

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

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. Jim Hensen

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? Mahatma Gandhi

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. William Christopher Handy

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. Jimi Hendrix

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. Erma Bombeck

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is. Unknown

Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed. George Burns

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt

You carry the passport to your own happiness. Diane von Furstenberg

Your only limit is your mind. Unknown

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. Wallis Simpson

I bear a charmed life. William Shakespeare

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius

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

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. B. F. Skinner

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano

Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston

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

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. Charlie Sheen

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. Robert Frost

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years. Warren Buffett

You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing. Unknown

Only do what your heart tells you. Princess Diana

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. Marilyn Monroe

Ideation without execution is delusion. Robin Sharma

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles

Still, I rise. Maya Angelou

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Flannery O'Connor

You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything. Ali Krieger

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian

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

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. William Arthur Ward

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. Kyle Chandler

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. Joseph Campbell

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy

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

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. Gilbert K. Chesterton

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Jimi Hendrix

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it. The Lion King

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. Ron Paul

To know nothing is the happiest life. Desiderius Erasmus

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. Aristotle

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates

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

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant

Dream beautiful dreams, and then work to make those dreams come true. Spencer W. Kimball

It’s okay to be a glowstick: Sometimes we have to break before we shine. Jadah Sellner