Motivation is the reason for people’s actions, willingness and goals, often seen as needs that require satisfaction. These needs could also be wants or desires that are acquired through influence of culture, society, lifestyle, etc. or generally innate. Motivation is one’s direction to behaviour, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behaviour, a set of force that acts behind the motives. Motivation has been considered as one of the most important reasons that inspires a person to move forward in life. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors. Mastering motivation to allow sustained and deliberate practice is central to high levels of achievement.
Some of the best motivational quotes are listed below.
- “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
- “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
- “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
- “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
- “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
- “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington
- “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.”– Lily Tomlin
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” – Jill Konrath
- “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
- “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” – Marissa Mayer
- “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”– Pierre Omidyar
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” – Mark Cuban
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
- “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.” – Robert Downey Jr.
- “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
- “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
- “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie
- “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina Fake
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”– Michael Jordan
- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
- “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden
- “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama
- “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “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
- “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
- “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” – Heather Bresch
- “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris
- “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” – Paulo Coelho
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Sam Levenson
Best motivational quotes from movies
Movies are known to have quotes that can motivate people to achieve their goals. Here are some of the best motivational quotes from movies.
- “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – Shrek, Shrek The Third
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
- “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace, Braveheart
- “Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.” – John Nash, A Beautiful Mind
- “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather
- “In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.” – Fortune, Rudy
- “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” – Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society
- “Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky, Rocky Balboa
- “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, The Lion King
- “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
- “Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.” – Forrester, Finding Forrester
- “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
- “The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.” – Socrates, from Peaceful Warrior
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort, Wolf of the Wall Street
- “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” – Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
- “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator
- “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred, Batman Begins
- “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Eames, Inception
