107 Motivational Quotes & Videos That Will Inspire You

107 Motivational Quotes & Videos That Will Inspire You
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We could all use a nice kick in the butt sometimes to get motivated again. There will always be roadblocks in life; nothing is ever smooth as it’s made out to be. When you get tested to your limits, you’ll find the need to turn somewhere to draw upon some motivation because you’re running on empty. Here are 107 great quotes, videos, and images to motivate you.

Quotes & Videos

You can use the following quotes to keep yourself motivated or even share through Twitter to help motivate others.

    Inspiration


    276 pound man embarks on a quest to achieve one of his lifelong dreams.

  1. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti | Click to Tweet!
  2. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn | Click to Tweet!
  3. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon | Click to Tweet!
  4. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford | Click to Tweet!
  5. Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion | Click to Tweet!
  6. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth | Click to Tweet!
  7. Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it. | Click to Tweet!
  8. Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still. | Click to Tweet!
  9. A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it. | Click to Tweet!
  10. 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 | Click to Tweet!
  11. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself – George Bernard Shaw. | Click to Tweet!
  12. 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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain | Click to Tweet!
  13. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu | Click to Tweet!
  14. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. – Howard Thurman | Click to Tweet!
  15. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson | Click to Tweet!
  16. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been – Wayne Gretzky | Click to Tweet!
  17. Every man dies. Not every man really lives – William Ross Wallace | Click to Tweet!
  18. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein | Click to Tweet!
  19. In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away – Shing Xiong | Click to Tweet!
  20. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there – Will Rogers | Click to Tweet!
  21. The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. | Click to Tweet!
  22. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers | Click to Tweet!
  23. Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. – Doug Ivester | Click to Tweet!
  24. If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins | Click to Tweet!

    25. Success


    Success: how bad do you want it?

  25. Everyone has the will to win. Few are willing to prepare. – Mark Cuban | Click to Tweet!
  26. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby | Click to Tweet!
  27. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill | Click to Tweet!
  28. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar | Click to Tweet!
  29. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney | Click to Tweet!
  30. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson | Click to Tweet!
  31. The road to success is always under construction. Arnold Palmer | Click to Tweet!
  32. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson | Click to Tweet!
  33. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!
  34. The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan | Click to Tweet!
  35. Those who are willing to take action and take risks succeed. The others fade quickly. – Bradley Smith | Click to Tweet!
  36. I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan | Click to Tweet!
  37. The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. – Oprah Winfrey | Click to Tweet!
  38. There is no failure except in no longer trying – Elbert Hubbard | Click to Tweet!
  39. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie | Click to Tweet!
  40. Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen. – Phillip Adams | Click to Tweet!
  41. A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits. – Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!
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  42. It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! – Rocky Balboa | Click to Tweet!
  43. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell | Click to Tweet!

    44. Opportunity

  44. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson | Click to Tweet!
  45. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – Anonymous | Click to Tweet!
  46. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker | Click to Tweet!
  47. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. – Sun Tzu | Click to Tweet!
  48. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us – Alexander Graham Bell. | Click to Tweet!
  49. 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 importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. – Steve Jobs | Click to Tweet!
  50. There’s no next time. It’s now or never. – Celestine Chua | Click to Tweet!

    51. Goals

  51. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump | Click to Tweet!
  52. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn | Click to Tweet!
  53. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt | Click to Tweet!
  54. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc | Click to Tweet!
  55. Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger. – Tony Hsieh | Click to Tweet!
  56. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!
  57. Don’t be shy about believing in your ideas – even if folks around you think you’re crazy. – Tim Westergren | Click to Tweet!
  58. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. – Les Brown | Click to Tweet!
  59. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron | Click to Tweet!
  60. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
    shore. – Andre Gide | Click to Tweet!
  61. It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor | Click to Tweet!
  62. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson | Click to Tweet!
  63. You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream. – John Eliot | Click to Tweet!
  64. The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland | Click to Tweet!
  65. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napolean Hill | Click to Tweet!
  66. The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. – Benjamin Mays | Click to Tweet!

    67. Wisdom


    Rocky Balboa gives his son a few words of wisdom

  67. Do something fun. Do something worthwhile. Do something with fun and worthwhile people. – David Mcclure | Click to Tweet!
  68. A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney | Click to Tweet!
  69. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burn | Click to Tweet!
  70. Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. – Anita Roddick | Click to Tweet!
  71. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford | Click to Tweet!
  72. 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 | Click to Tweet!

  73. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs | Click to Tweet!
  74. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar | Click to Tweet!
  75. Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours – Zig Ziglar | Click to Tweet!
  76. What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!
  77. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach | Click to Tweet!
  78. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson | Click to Tweet!
  79. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Dr. Denis Waitley | Click to Tweet!
  80. A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open. – Frank Zappa | Click to Tweet!
  81. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. – Ray Kroc | Click to Tweet!

    82. Perseverance


    When you don’t give up, you can’t fail.

  82. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!
  83. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan | Click to Tweet!
  84. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca | Click to Tweet!
  85. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller | Click to Tweet!
  86. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda | Click to Tweet!
  87. Fall seven times; stand up eight. | Click to Tweet!
  88. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. – Evan Esar | Click to Tweet!
  89. If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough. – Chris Dixon | Click to Tweet!
  90. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi | Click to Tweet!
  91. If you’re going through hell, keep going – Winston Churchill | Click to Tweet!
  92. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius | Click to Tweet!
  93. Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently. – Zig Ziglar | Click to Tweet!
  94. Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. – J. Gitomer | Click to Tweet!

    95. Self Improvement

  95. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker | Click to Tweet!
  96. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson | Click to Tweet!
  97. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn | Click to Tweet!
  98. Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience. – Tony Hsieh | Click to Tweet!
  99. People often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. – Mahatma Gandhi | Click to Tweet!
  100. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!

    101. Leadership

  101. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos | Click to Tweet!
  102. People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash | Click to Tweet!
  103. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill | Click to Tweet!
  104. Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. – Lisa Amos | Click to Tweet!
  105. Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something. – Mark Suster | Click to Tweet!
  106. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint Exupery | Click to Tweet!
  107. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou | Click to Tweet!

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