The best quotes contain messages that provide wisdom. The experiences and lessons of others are valuable resources.

Short Motivational Quotes

1.“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

2. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle

3. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou

4. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Arianna Huffington

5. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela

6. “It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.” — David Lynch

7. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

8. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison

10. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost

11. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill

12. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius

13. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair

14. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford

15. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt

16. “You become what you believe.” -Oprah Winfrey

17. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill

Motivational Quotes for Success

1. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. -Steve Jobs

2. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau

3. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” -Estee Lauder

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

5.“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” — Zig Ziglar

6.“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” — Walter Elliot

7. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” -Jim Rohn

8. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” -Tony Robbins

9.“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou

10. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”  — Oprah Winfrey

11. “The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.” — Dan Waldschmidt

12. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke, basketball coach

Deep Motivational Quotes

1.”Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller

2. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson

3. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

4. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Steve Jobs

5. “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

6. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead