51 Motivational Quotes That’ll Inspire You Today

Whether you’re looking for a boost in productivity, confidence, or determination, motivational quotes can uplift your spirit and help you stay focused on your goals.

In today’s date, we are all running in a rat race, not really knowing what exactly we are looking for!

While some are seeking success & trying to climb the ladder of their career graph, others are searching for peace & happiness.

When there’s usually so much competition, stress, anxiety around us, we all have our own ways of coping up with difficult situations and moving on.

But then, there are days, when we need some extra push to keep ourselves going!

Honestly, the way we see things and what we feel about ourselves, our beliefs, and expectations about what is possible for us and what we can achieve, determines almost everything that happens to us.

When we change the way we think and the quality of our thoughts, we actually change the path of life – sometimes, instantly!

Just as positive words can make someone smile or a well-timed humorous quote can make someone laugh, our thoughts react to the world in real-time.

To put it in the words of Jim Rohn, “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”

Here are 51 motivational quotes that would help to lift up your spirits, inspire you today, and guide you for a better tomorrow.

1. “The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.” – Winston Churchill.

2. “All Our Dreams Can Come True If We Have the Courage to Pursue Them.” — Walt Disney.

3. “Take Up One Idea. Make That One Idea Your Life–think of It, Dream of It, Live on That Idea. Let the Brain, Muscles, Nerves, Every Part of Your Body, Be Full of That Idea, and Just Leave Every Other Idea Alone. This Is the Way to Success.” — Swami Vivekananda.

4. “Your Attitude, Not Your Aptitude, Will Determine Your Altitude.” – Zig Ziglar.

5. “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers.

6. “If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” – Steve Jobs.

7. “People Who Are Crazy Enough To Think They Can Change The World, Are The Ones Who Do.” – Rob Siltanen.

8. “There Are No Limits To What You Can Accomplish, Except The Limits You Place On Your Own Thinking.” – Brian Tracy.

9. “One Of The Lessons That I Grew Up With Was To Always Stay True To Yourself And Never Let What Somebody Else Says Distract You From Your Goals.” – Michelle Obama.

10. “Whatever the Mind of Man Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve.” – Napoleon Hill.

11. “Whatever Is Worrying You Right Now, Forget About It. Take a Deep Breath, Stay Positive and Know That Things Will Get Better.” – Anonymous.

12. “Believe You Can and You’re Halfway There.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

13. “Good Things Come to People Who Wait, but Better Things Come to Those Who Go Out and Get Them.” — Anonymous.

14. “Opportunities Don’t Happen, You Create Them.” —Chris Grosser.

15. “You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don’t Take.” –Wayne Gretzky.

16. “Fake It Until You Make It! Act As If You Had All The Confidence You Require Until It Becomes Your Reality.” – Brian Tracy.

17. “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis.

18. “What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time.” – Don Zimmer.

19. “The Only Limit To Our Realization Of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts Of Today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.

20. “The Man Who Has Confidence In Himself Gains The Confidence Of Others.” – Hasidic Proverb.

21. “The Most Difficult Thing Is the Decision to Act, the Rest Is Merely Tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart.

22. “Life Is What Happens to You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans.” – John Lennon.

23. “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.

24. “The Best Time to Plant a Tree Was 20 Years Ago. the Second Best Time Is Now.” – Chinese Proverb.

25. “Your Time Is Limited, So Don’t Waste It Living Someone Else’s Life.” – Steve Jobs.

26. “Winning Isn’t Everything, but Wanting to Win Is.” – Vince Lombardi.

27. “You Can Never Cross The Ocean Until You Have the Courage to Lose Sight of the Shore.” – Christopher Columbus.

28. “The Two Most Important Days in Your Life Are the Day You Are Born and the Day You Find Out Why.” – Mark Twain.

29. “The Only Person You Are Destined to Become Is the Person You Decide to Be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

30. “Go Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams. Live the Life You Have Imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau.

31. “Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is on the Other Side of Fear.” – George Addair.

32. “Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can.” – Arthur Ashe.

33. “Fall Seven Times and Stand Up Eight.” – Japanese Proverb.

34. “There Are Two Types of People Who Will Tell You That You Cannot Make a Difference in This World: Those Who Are Afraid to Try and Those Who Are Afraid You Will Succeed.” — Ray Goforth.

35. “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.

36. “How Wonderful It Is That Nobody Need Wait a Single Moment Before Starting to Improve the World.” – Anne Frank.

37. “Life Is Not Measured By the Number of Breaths We Take, but by the Moments That Take Our Breath Away.” – Maya Angelou.

38. “Happiness Is Not Something Readymade. It Comes from Your Own Actions.” – Dalai Lama.

39. “We Must Believe That We Are Gifted for Something and That This Thing, at Whatever Cost, Must Be Attained.” – Marie Curie.

40. “If You Want to Achieve Excellence, You Can Get There Today. as of This Second, Quit Doing Less-Than-Excellent Work.” — Thomas J. Watson.

41. “The First Step Toward Success Is Taken When You Refuse to Be a Captive of the Environment in Which You First Find Yourself.” – Mark Caine.

42. “A Goal Is Not Always Meant to Be Reached; It Often Serves Simply as Something to Aim At.” — Bruce Lee.

43. “When I Dare to Be Powerful, to Use My Strength in the Service of My Vision, Then It Becomes Less and Less Important Whether I Am Afraid.” – Audre Lorde.

44. “Be Miserable. or Motivate Yourself. Whatever Has to Be Done, It’s Always Your Choice.” — Wayne Dyer.

45. “You May Be Disappointed If You Fail, but You Are Doomed If You Don’t Try.” – Beverly Sills.

46. “Don’t Let What You Cannot Do Interfere with What You Can Do.” — John R. Wooden.

47. “The Question Isn’t Who Is Going to Let Me; It’s Who Is Going to Stop Me.” – Ayn Rand.

48. “If Your Actions Inspire Others to Dream More, Learn More, Do More and Become More, You Are a Leader.” – John Quincy Adams.

49. “When Everything Seems to Be Going Against You, Remember That The Airplane Takes Off Against the Wind, Not with It.” –Henry Ford.

50. “Either Write Something Worth Reading Or Do Something Worth Writing.” –Benjamin Franklin.

51. “Challenges Are What Make Life Interesting And Overcoming Them Is What Makes Life Meaningful. “– Joshua J. Marine.

So my dear friend, pull yourself out of the bed and choose the path you wish to walk on, today! Another minute you’ll waste, is another moment of good work gone.

Think about what would you do if you weren’t afraid of failures and get going!

I wish you ‘All The Best’ for whatever you decide to do!

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