200 Motivational Quotes in English

200 motivational quotes categorized into different themes for inspiration and encouragement


1. Success & Achievement

  1. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
  2. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
  3. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
  4. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
  5. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
  6. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
  7. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
  8. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
  9. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
  10. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”

2. Perseverance & Hard Work

  1. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
  2. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
  3. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
  4. “Great things never come from comfort zones.”
  5. “Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.”
  6. “Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.”
  7. “The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.”
  8. “Don’t stop until you’re proud.”
  9. “No matter how slow you go, you’re still lapping everyone on the couch.”
  10. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love for what you are doing.” – Pelé

3. Dreams & Goals

  1. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
  2. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  3. “Set goals that make you want to jump out of bed in the morning.”
  4. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”
  5. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  6. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
  7. “Your dreams are the blueprints of your reality.”
  8. “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” – Tony Robbins
  9. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” – Brian Tracy
  10. “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.”

4. Self-Belief & Confidence

  1. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  2. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
  3. “Self-belief is the most powerful force in the universe.”
  4. “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
  5. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.”
  6. “Believe in yourself, and the world will believe in you.”
  7. “You are enough just as you are.”
  8. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie
  9. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
  10. “You are capable of more than you know.”

5. Overcoming Challenges

  1. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
  2. “Every storm runs out of rain.”
  3. “When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.”
  4. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
  5. “The comeback is always stronger than the setback.”
  6. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
  7. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”
  8. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb
  9. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Molière
  10. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley

6. Positivity & Optimism

  1. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
  2. “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”
  3. “Your attitude determines your direction.”
  4. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” – Helen Keller
  5. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
  6. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
  7. “Positive vibes only.”
  8. “Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”
  9. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
  10. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

7. Growth & Learning

  1. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
  3. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
  4. “The more you learn, the more you earn.” – Warren Buffett
  5. “Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.”
  6. “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” – Jim Rohn
  7. “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”
  8. “Every expert was once a beginner.”
  9. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
  10. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia

8. Time & Productivity

  1. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
  2. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
  3. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton
  4. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
  5. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
  6. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
  7. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
  8. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” – Theophrastus
  9. “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
  10. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

9. Courage & Fear

  1. “Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
  2. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  3. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
  4. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”
  6. “Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.”
  7. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
  8. “Don’t let fear of failure hold you back.”
  9. “The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”
  10. “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”

10. Gratitude & Happiness

  1. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
  2. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
  3. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” – Oprah Winfrey
  4. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
  5. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.” – Zig Ziglar
  6. “Happiness is a choice, not a result.”
  7. “Count your blessings, not your problems.”
  8. “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
  9. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
  10. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

11. Leadership & Influence

  1. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.”
  2. “The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell
  3. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
  4. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
  5. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
  6. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the team.”
  7. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It’s about one life influencing another.”
  8. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
  9. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”
  10. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin

12. Creativity & Innovation

  1. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
  2. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
  3. “The creative adult is the child who survived.”
  4. “Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has thought.”
  5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
  6. “Don’t think outside the box. Think like there is no box.”
  7. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
  8. “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.”
  9. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
  10. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

13. Relationships & Kindness

  1. “Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
  2. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
  3. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  4. “Relationships are the foundation of life.”
  5. “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions.”
  6. “Be the reason someone smiles today.”
  7. “Love and kindness are never wasted.”
  8. “The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”
  9. “Kindness is free. Sprinkle that stuff everywhere.”
  10. “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” – Tony Robbins

14. Health & Wellness

  1. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
  2. “Health is not about the weight you lose but the life you gain.”
  3. “Your health is an investment, not an expense.”
  4. “A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
  5. “Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit.”
  6. “The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
  7. “You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake.”
  8. “Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not a punishment for what you ate.”
  9. “Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones—through practice.”
  10. “Your body is your most priceless possession. Take care of it.”

15. Money & Wealth

  1. “It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  2. “The more you learn, the more you earn.” – Warren Buffett
  3. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau
  4. “Don’t work for money; make it work for you.”
  5. “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.”
  6. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”
  7. “Money is a tool. Use it to build the life you want.”
  8. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.”
  9. “Save your money so your money can save you.”
  10. “Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make.”

16. Change & Adaptability

  1. “Change is the only constant in life.” – Heraclitus
  2. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  3. “Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”
  4. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  5. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
  6. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
  7. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.”
  8. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
  9. “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
  10. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

17. Passion & Purpose

  1. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
  2. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  3. “Find your passion, and let it guide you.”
  4. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” – Buddha
  5. “Passion is the genesis of genius.”
  6. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
  7. “Purpose is the reason you journey. Passion is the fire that lights the way.”
  8. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.” – Howard Thurman
  9. “Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”
  10. “Your purpose is not just what you do; it’s how you make others feel.”

18. Failure & Resilience

  1. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
  2. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
  3. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
  4. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”
  5. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power to pick yourself up.”
  6. “Every failure is a step closer to success.”
  7. “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
  8. “Failure is the tuition you pay for success.”
  9. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.”
  10. “The only real failure is the failure to try.”

19. Gratitude & Mindfulness

  1. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
  2. “Mindfulness is the path to the present moment.”
  3. “The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.”
  4. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.” – Zig Ziglar
  5. “Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.”
  6. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
  7. “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
  8. “Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”
  9. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom that springs from the soul.”
  10. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”

20. Legacy & Impact

  1. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
  2. “Your legacy is every life you’ve touched.”
  3. “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.” – Pericles
  4. “The greatest legacy one can pass on is a life well-lived.”
  5. “The impact you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
  6. “Live a life that will outlast you.”
  7. “Your legacy is not what you do for yourself but what you do for others.”
  8. “The best way to leave a legacy is to live a life worth remembering.”
  9. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” – Brian Tracy

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