“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
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100 Motivational Quotes
A short introduction
Some mornings you need a sentence that holds you up. Not a lecture. Not a five-step plan. Just a line that reminds you that hard days are still days you can move through.
This page is a quiet stack of those lines. A hundred motivational quotes from people who had to keep going — teachers, athletes, writers, leaders, and a few names that have been passed around for so long they feel like they belong to everyone.
Read them slowly. Some will bounce off. One might stay. That is how this kind of reading works. You are not collecting slogans. You are looking for a companion for the next hour.
When you find one, you can leave it as text. Or you can turn it into a poster. FOURQuoteDesigns will design four versions for you — type, color, layout — so you can put the line on your lock screen, your story, or the wall you look at when you want to quit.
You do not need an account. There is no watermark. The quotes here are meant to be used with the author's name still attached. That small courtesy is how we keep the room honest.
If you came here tired, start at the top. If you came here to make something, pick a line and generate. Either way, take what helps and leave the rest.
100 quotes
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
Henry Ford
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Never give in — never, never, never, never.”
Winston Churchill
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali
“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
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men.”
Muhammad Ali
“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
“Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Muhammad Ali
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammad Ali
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
Muhammad Ali
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
Michael Jordan
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Tony Robbins
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day.”
Rumi
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become.”
Zig Ziglar
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese proverb
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Chinese proverb
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
George Addair
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
Robin Sharma
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Confucius
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
Aristotle
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll see further.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
John Wooden
“I never lose. I either win or learn.”
Nelson Mandela
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
Peter Marshall
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Little by little, one travels far.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
“I never lose. I either win or I learn.”
Nelson Mandela
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”
Nelson Mandela
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Henry Ford
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Winston Churchill
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
Albert Einstein
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Zig Ziglar
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They are short lines that help you keep going when energy is low. The best ones do not shout. They name something true — effort, patience, courage — and leave you a little more willing to begin.