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100 Quotes For Lifelong Motivation.

Here are 100 powerful quotes for lifelong motivation, categorized by themes like perseverance, courage, self-discipline, mindset, success, failure, and personal growth....

By Krypton Published 8 months ago 6 min read
100 Quotes For Lifelong Motivation.
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Perseverance & Persistence

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." — Walter Elliot

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." — Japanese Proverb

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." — Confucius

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." — Benjamin Franklin

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." — Benjamin Disraeli

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." — Sam Levenson

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, but a lack of will." — Vince Lombardi

"Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." — Napoleon Hill

"Little by little, one travels far." — J.R.R. Tolkien

Courage & Bravery

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." — Ambrose Redmoon

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" — Mary Anne Radmacher

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." — Muhammad Ali

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anaïs Nin

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage." — Dale Carnegie

"Feel the fear and do it anyway." — Susan Jeffers

"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." — Richard Branson

"Be brave enough to live life creatively." — Alan Alda

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." — Mark Twain

Self-Discipline & Focus

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn

"We do today what they won’t, so tomorrow we can accomplish what they can’t." — Dwayne Johnson

"Focus on being productive instead of busy." — Tim Ferriss

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." — Jim Rohn

"Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable." — Dan Kennedy

"Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing." — John C. Maxwell

"Starve your distractions, feed your focus." — Unknown

"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time." — John C. Maxwell

"Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." — Muhammad Ali

"Success is doing what you have to do, whether you feel like it or not." — Unknown

Mindset & Attitude

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right." — Henry Ford

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." — Jim Rohn

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." — Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Mind is everything. What you think you become." — Buddha

"Your attitude determines your direction." — Unknown

"Success is 90% attitude and 10% ability." — Unknown

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true—it did for me." — David Bailey

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." — Wayne Dyer

Success & Achievement

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." — Albert Schweitzer

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

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." — Chris Grosser

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." — Vidal Sassoon

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." — Estée Lauder

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." — Maya Angelou

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have." — Zig Ziglar

Failure & Resilience

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — Henry Ford

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Confucius

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." — Robert F. Kennedy

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." — J.K. Rowling

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success." — Arianna Huffington

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." — Nelson Mandela

"It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts." — Zig Ziglar

"A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances." — B.F. Skinner

"Failure builds character." — Unknown

Personal Growth & Learning

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." — Benjamin Franklin

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together." — James Cash Penney

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." — Chinese Proverb

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." — Thomas Jefferson

"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself." — Denis Waitley

Determination & Grit

"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint." — Angela Duckworth

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." — Samuel Johnson

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." — Babe Ruth

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." — Earl Nightingale

"Dream big and dare to fail." — Norman Vaughan

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving." — Conrad Hilton

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." — William James

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Suzy Kassem

"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it." — Unknown

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish." — Steve Jobs

Vision & Purpose

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." — Mark Twain

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." — Jim Rohn

"Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live." — Criss Jami

"Clarity of purpose is the starting point of all great achievements." — Robin Sharma

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." — John F. Kennedy

"When you know your 'why,' you'll find your 'how.'" — Zig Ziglar

"Purpose fuels passion." — Unknown

"The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." — Confucius

"If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there." — Roy T. Bennett

"Success demands singleness of purpose." — Vince Lombardi

General Motivation

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman

"Dream it. Believe it. Build it." — Unknown

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." — John F. Kennedy

"Success starts with self-belief." — Unknown

"The best revenge is massive success." — Frank Sinatra

"It always seems impossible until it’s done." — Nelson Mandela

"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you." — Unknown

"Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous." — Unknown

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