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200+ Very Short Quotes to Motivate Quickly!
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Dust off and get up.
Take charge.
You are enough.
Challenge yourself.
Elicit a few ‘wows’ today.
Inspire envy.
Keep your chin up.
Just dance.
You can do hard things.
Together we can do so much.
Be a goal digger.
A bigger yes is around the corner.
You can do it!
Make your own luck.
Aim for the moon.
You’re on the right track.
Make waves.
Don’t let them stop you.
Make it happen.
Don’t stop until you’re proud.
Try one more time.
Shine!
Keep going.
Be a doer, not a wisher.
Action speaks louder than words.
To begin, begin.
Live a life worth remembering.
Lift up someone else.
Follow your dreams.
Don’t try harder, do harder.
One day, or day one? You decide.
Put a little strut in it.
Tough times make tough people.
Bring your best.
Create your own magic.
Never say die.
Good things take time.
Hustle can beat talent.
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Work until your idols become rivals.
Think like a queen.
Old ways don’t open new doors.
No excuses.
Keep the main thing the main thing.
Persist!
You only have to be right once.
Prepare to win.
The world is your oyster!
Do something worth celebrating.
Push on.
Focus on the vital things.
Do it with all your heart.
Shake the world.
All limitations are self-imposed.
No struggle, no progress.
Impossible is for the unwilling.
Pull the trigger.
Challenge the status quo.
Be unstoppable.
Keep your eyes on the stars.
Excellence is a habit.
Make a courageous decision.
Prove everyone wrong.
Big things start small.
Inspiration must find you working.
You can do anything.
Surround yourself with greatness.
Do the right things.
Get through it.
Do the things you fear.
Know what you stand for.
Turn “can do” into “can did!”
Failure is not fatal.
Aim out of the ballpark.
Go for the great.
Habit is persistence in practice.
Use your head.
Encourage yourself.
Dare to believe again.
Conquer today.
Be a person of value.
No regrets, just lessons.
Be fearless.
What we think, we become.
Hard work pays off.
Die with memories, not dreams.
Your life is your message.
It’s your time to shine.
Decide to act.
Make life more beautiful.
Be the change.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Plant the seed.
You contain what you seek.
Keep the fire burning.
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
I can, therefore I am.
Be a leader.
The best way out is through.
Aspire to inspire.
Take risks.
Set your goals high.
Show up, show up, show up.
Make a difference.
Keep going.
Live your passion.
Do better.
The joy is in the doing.
The show must go on.
Just start.
Shoot for the stars.
Rise every time you fall.
Celebrate success.
Don’t settle for average.
There is no “try.”
What you do matters.
Focus on the journey.
Resolve to succeed.
You got this.
Failure is part of success.
Do what you can.
You’ve survived tougher.
You got it in you.
Don’t waste a precious minute.
March forward.
Dream big, work hard.
Let’s hear your battle cry.
Begin again.
High-five yourself.
Power through.
You can do it and you know it.
Bet on yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
Keep fighting.
Don’t give up on yourself.
Just do it!
Finish well.
Take charge and mean it.
Believe in yourself.
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Now is the only moment.
Get your brave on.
Fear not.
Change the channel in your brain.
Buckle down and push forth.
Trust the process.
Don’t wait to get started.
Stir things up.
Tough is your middle name.
Go get it!
Put your game face on.
Failure isn’t a tattoo it’s a bruise.
You were born for this.
Stand out.
Chase perfection.
Stop worrying and start doing.
Be determined.
You are unstoppable.
Think different.
Figure it out as you go.
Persist.
Fire up those engines.
Be your own boss.
Fake it til you make it.
Be resilient.
Get back in the game.
Today’s struggle is tomorrow’s strength.
Make wise choices.
You are in charge of your mood.
Get back in there, champ!
Go for broke.
Know your value.
Not choosing is a choice.
Do it scared.
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Desire success.
Set the precedent.
Take a fresh approach.
Dig deeper.
Leave a legacy.
You can push back.
Go for it.
Nothing works unless you do.
Live your purpose.
Focus on the positives.
Stop at nothing.
No regrets.
Failure isn’t fatal.
Be the one others look up to.
Right the wrongs.
Try something new.
Decide.
Fussing is futile.
Do something.
Worry is a waste.
Believe you can.
Push through the fear.
Seize the day.
Take charge.
Change your thoughts.
Improve the world.
Ask for what you need.
Live your dream.
Express gratitude.
Do more than the other guy.
Be your own boss.
Do right.
Stay the course.
Take pleasure in your work.
Love what you do.
Change for the better.
Keep learning.
Attempt the impossible.
Don’t lose hope.
It’s not over yet.
Be the one who endures.
Focus.
Don’t stop now!
Fear not.
Be strong and courageous.
Never surrender.
This is your finest hour.
You are enough.
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101 Best Motivational Quotes
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”!
~ Audrey Hepburn
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
~ Atisha
Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.
~ Jarod Kintz
In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
~ Seth Godin
Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Leadership is an action, not a position.
~ Donald McGannon
Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.
~ Ronald Reagan
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.
~ Thomas John Carlisle
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
~ J.P. Morgan
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
~ Tom Rath
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
~ Orrin Woodward
Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
~ Peter F. Drucker
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
~ Jerry Porras
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
~ John Maxwell
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
~ John Maxwell
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
~ Mother Teresa
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
~ Henry Ford
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
~ Jim Rohn
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
If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.
~ Anonymous
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
~ Napoleon Hill
Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.
~ Vaibhav Shah
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
~ Albert Einstein
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I am not a product of my circ*mstances. I am a product of my decisions.
~ Stephen Covey
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~ Bruce Feirstein
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
~ John D. Rockefeller
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
~ Albert Einstein
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
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
~ Robert Collier
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
~ Alice Walker
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
~ Amelia Earhart
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
~ Aristotle Onassis
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear —not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Pablo Picasso
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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
~ Dalai Lama
The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.
~ Bruce Lee
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something —your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
~ Steve Jobs
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.
~ Jim Rohn
The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
~ Napoleon Hill
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas A. Edison
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
~ Robert Schuller
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
~ John Maxwell
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
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
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.
~ David Allen
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
~ Greg Anderson
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?
~ Bill Walton
Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.
~ Sue Knight
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
~ J. Petit Senn
You never regret being kind.
~ Nicole Shepherd
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
~ Alan Cohen
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
~ Shari R. Barr
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn’t you do?
~ Victor Frankl
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time… serenity, that nothing is.
~ Thomas Szasz
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~ Charles Darwin
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.
~ Ronald Reagan
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
~ Rosa Parks
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
~ John F. Kennedy
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~ John C. Maxwell
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
~ Brandon Sanderson
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
~ Booker T. Washington
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
~ Steve Jobs
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
~ Albert Einstein
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
~ Ronald Reagan
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
~ George Addair
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
~ Colin Powell
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
~ Charles Swindoll
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
~ Robert E. Lee
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
~ Vince Lombardi
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
~ Nancy D. Solomon
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
~ Max De Pree
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
~ Les Brown
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
~ Brad Szollose
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
~ Plutarch
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
~ George Patton
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
~ Gertrude Stein
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~ John E. Southard
Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.
~ Tom Hopkins
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
~ Andre Dubus
Do or donot. There is no try.
~ Yoda
Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.
~ Jimmy Spithill
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The best revenge is massive success.
~ Frank Sinatra
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
~ Ayn Rand
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
~ Steve Jobs
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered-just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.
~ Barrie Davenport
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20 Best Motivational Quotes Infographic
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