Motivational Quotes for Self Motivation

Motivational Quotes for Self Motivation

Self-motivation is the key to success. These 100+ famous self-motivation quotes will inspire you to keep going when the going gets tough.

If you’re struggling to stay motivated today, you’re not alone. Many of us need to be inspired when we’re feeling low, and quotes are the perfect way to do this. So if you’re looking for some new motivation quotes that will push you to keep going even when things are tough, look no further than this list of 100+ famous quotes about self-motivation!

Famous Quotes About Being Motivated

1. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. —Jim Ryun 
2. If at first, you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.  —W. C. Fields 
3. I'm always doing that which I can not do, so that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso 
4. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions... Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. —Mark Twain 
5. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. —Michelangelo 
6. Don't wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. —Mother Teresa 
7. It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. —Bill Gates 
8. Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be. —John Wooden The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. —H. Jackson Brown Jr. 
9. The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.—Vidal Sassoon 
10. You're never a loser until you quit trying.—Mike Ditka 
11. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.—Martin Luther King Jr. 
12. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
13. When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. That's why I know that there is no situation without a solution. —Jacob Riis 
14. Never tell me the odds!—Han Solo, Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) 
15. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.   —Anne Frank 
16. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
17. Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. —Albert Einstein 
18. Do or do not, there is no try. —Yoda 
19. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside awakens.—Carl Jung 
20. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.—Thomas Edison 
21. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.—Will Rogers 
22. Every noble work is at first impossible.—Thomas Carlyle 
23. To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 
24. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. —Steve Jobs 
25. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.—Vince Lombardi 
26. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.—Ralph Waldo Emerson 
27. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.—Ralph Waldo Emerson 
28. Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.—William James 
29. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.—Albert Einstein 
30. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.—George Bernard Shaw 
31. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.—Martin Luther King Jr. 
32. Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.—Marie Curie 
33. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. — Mark Twain 
34. To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction is to live twice.—Jules Renard 
35. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.—Henry David Thoreau 
36. No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking down a bad law.—Henry David Thoreau 
37. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.—Thomas Jefferson 
38. One of these days is none of these days. — Irish Proverb 
39. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.—Albert Einstein 
40. We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love, we're not extending in the present.—Marianne Williamson 
41. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.—Ralph Waldo Emerson 
42. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.—George Burns 
43. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. — Tony Robbins 
44. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain 
45. It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. — Anonymous 

Famous Inspirational Quotes About Failure That Will Keep You Going Even When Things Seem Hopeless

1. I failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan 
2. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. – Beverly Sills 
3. Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be. – John Wooden 
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5. Don›t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don›t even try. – Jack Canfield 
6. If at first you don›t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn›t for you. – Steven Wright 
7. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don›t play together, the club won›t be worth a dime. – Babe Ruth 
8. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell 
9. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. – Conrad Hilton 
10. Mistakes are part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. – Al Franken 
11. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley 
12.  No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. – Bill Vaughan 
13. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines either. – George Horace Lorimer 
14. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth 
15. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D Roosevelt 
16. We gain strength and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt 
17. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin 
18. 18) He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. - Seneca 
19. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas Edison 
20. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby 
21. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain 
22. It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius 
23. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F Kennedy 
24. To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe. – Anatole France 
25. Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie 
26. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
27. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison 
28. 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 
29. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. – Babe Ruth 
30. I'm not a failure. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas Edison 
31. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt 
32. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister 
33. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
34. Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep the faith. And, when you're knocked down, get right back up. — Barack Obama 
35. I've found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. — Maya Angelou 
36. If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl 
37. You'll find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you've really lived are the moments when you've done things in a spirit of love. — Henry Drummond 
38. Love is friendship set on fire. — Jeremy Taylor 
39. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds more than to men -- these are my ideals. — John Burroughs 
40. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. — Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (16 April 1963)