145 Motivational Famous Quotes

To motivate and inspire and make a person feel empowered one needs to show empathy and make the person feel happy and motivated inside themselves. People love to read inspiring quotes. Here is a quote I have made you “listen to your heart and not to other people“, or “Chose your friends carefully as you will have lots of friends when you are successful“. I have highlighted in bold my favourite quotes of all time below.

Why are quotes so important?

Quotes serve as a daily reminder to carry on when we are faced with challenges. Setting daily quotes in your journal or wall calendar can help to motivate you for the day.

Positive quotes are words of wisdom which can inspire our happiness.

1. Words of wisdom can motivate, inspire, and encourage a person.
2. Motivational quotes can rewire our thought processes and our minds. If you believe you can achieve.
3. Discover wisdom and insight that will help you in your life.
4. If you are feeling down motivational quotes offer hope.
5. Positive words empower people to keep carrying on.
6. Meditation 5 minutes before you go to sleep and 5 minutes when you walk, can help you manifest what you desire.
7. Motivational quotes can change your thinking and broaden your horizons.
8. Carry around with you some motivational quotes “I am so happy a grateful that I have an abundance of money and am successful”.
9. Think in the present tense that you have already achieved your goals.
10. Be grateful for what you have and more will be given.

Positive quotes make you feel optimistic, empowered and ready to set goals. Your attitude should be of gratitide. Turn your attitude into a habit and practice it every day.

Remember our words and our thoughts influence our minds and this is called ‘neuroplasticity’. Never speak negatively or use negative words. Often, the words you read stay with you and affect how you think, act, and react, for a long time after hearing or reading them.

Famous Quotes:

1. Don’t go spending time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door -Coco Chanel.
2. Creativity is intelligence having fun -Albert Einstein
3. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier – Mother Theresa
4. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. –  Franklin Roosevelt
5. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn -Benjamin Franklin
6. It is doing our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light – Aristotle
7. Whoever is happy will make others happy – Anne Frank
8. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall – Nelson Mandela
10. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in the years – Abraham Lincoln
11. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up – Thomas A. Edison
12. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose – Dr. Seuss
13. Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not -Oscar Wilde
14. The only impossible journey is the one you never begin -Tony Robbins
15. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing – Walt Disney
16. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by the results of other people’s thinking -Steve Jobs
17. If you look at what you have in your life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough – Oprah Winfrey
18. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans – John Lennon
19. In this life, we cannot do great things, we can only do small things with great love – Mother Theresa
20. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile – Albert Einstein
21. The purpose of our lives is to be happy – Dalai Lama
22. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough – Mae West
23. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined – Henry David Thoreau
24. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated – Confucius
25. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale – Hans Christian Anderson
26. Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life – John Wooden
27. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved – D.H. Lawrence
28. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about – Marilyn Monroe
29. Love the life you live. Live the life you love – Bob Marley
30. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together -Charles Dickens
31. The secret of getting ahead is getting started – Mark Twain
32. Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great – John D. Rockefeller
33. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great – Zig Ziglar
34. Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you – Jack Canfield
35. I believe the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your dreams – Oprah Winfrey
36. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve – Napoleon Hill
37. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubt of today – Franklin D. Roosevelt
38. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want – Zig Ziglar
39. Whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right – Henry Ford
40. Believe you can, and you’re halfway there – Theodore Roosevelt
41. All our dreams will come true if we have the courage to pursue them – Walt Disney
42. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new – Socrates
43. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude – Mary Angelou
44. Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fit it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change – Gautama Buddha
45. A bad attitude is like a flat tire, if you don’t change it, you won’t go anywhere – Joyce Meyer
46. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams – Eleanor Roosevelt
47. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible – Tony Robbins
48. Imagine your life is perfect in every aspect, what would it look like? Brian Tracy
49. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream -C.S. Lewis
50. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning – Gloria Steinem
51. Always bear in mind that your own resolution of success is more important than any other one thing – Abraham Lincoln
52. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have – Thomas Jefferson
53. I never dreamed about success, I worked for it -Estee Lauder
54. For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded – Jack Canfield
55. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
56. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse – Florence Nightingale
57. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it – Henry David Thoreau
58. If you look really closely, most overnight successes took a long time – Steve Jobs
59. If you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful – Eric Thomas
60. Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you – Zig Ziglar
61. Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts – Winston S. Churchill
62. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall – Confucius
63. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible” – Audrey Hepburn
64. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is – Vince Lombardi
65. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop – Confucius
66. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it – Henry Ford
67. I cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples – Mother Theresa
68. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why – Mark Twain
69. 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 -Steve Jobs
70. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be – Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals – Michelle Obama
72. Be yourself, everyone else is already taken – Oscar Wilde
73. You have to be odd to be number one – Dr. Seuss
74. The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others – Hasidic Proverb
75. Try not to become a person of success, but rather, try to become a person of value – Albert Einstein
76. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way – Napoleon Hill
77. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit – Aristotle
78. Go the extra mile, there’s no one on it -Grant Cardone
79. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty – Winston Churchill
80. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent – Eleanor Roosevelt
81. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others – Cicero
82. Develop an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’ and say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you -Brian Tracy
83. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years -Abraham Lincoln
84. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it – Charles Swindoll
85. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air – Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. I would rather die of passion than of boredom – Vincent Van Gogh
87. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. Its whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it, whether you choose to persevere – Barack Obama
88. If you don’t risk anything, you risk everything – Rob Moore
89. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script – Oprah Winfrey
90. You are not too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream – Malala Yousafzai
91. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely – Roald Dahl
93.  Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud – Maya Angelou
94. Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope – Martin Luther King. Jr.
95. I believe that if you’ll just stand up, and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving Tina Turner
96. It ain’t about how you, hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward -Sylvester Stallone
97. Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more – Aretha Franklin
98. If my mind can conceive it if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it – Muhammad Ali
99. Embrace the glorious mess that you are – Elizabeth Gilbert
100. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
101. “They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” – Confucius
102. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” – Confucius
103. “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” – Confucius
104. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” – Confucius
105. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
106. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius
107. “To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.” – Confucius
108. “To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.” – Confucius
109. “Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.” – Confucius
110. “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” – Confucius
111. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be a failure.” – Confucius
112. “Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.” – Confucius
113. “Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.” – Confucius
114. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
115. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
116. “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” – Confucius
117. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
118. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” – Confucius
119. “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” – Confucius
120. “The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security, he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus, his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.” – Confucius
121. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
122. “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” – Confucius
123. “Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius
124. “Where ever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
125. “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” – Confucius
126. “Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” – Confucius
127. “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucius
128. “He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.” – Confucius
129. “He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” – Confucius
130. “He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.” – Confucius
131. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
132. “A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.” – Confucius
133. “Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.” – Confucius
134. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius
135. “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.” – Confucius
136. “By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” – Confucius
137. “He who will not economize will have to agonize.” – Confucius
138. “When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” – Confucius
139. “He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.” – Confucius
140. “If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” – Confucius
141. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
142. “If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?” – Confucius
143. “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.” – Confucius
144. “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get.” – Confucius
145. “Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” – Confucius

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