Motivational Quotes

Here are some of my favourite motivational quotes. Whether you're looking to get back into shape or you want to start a new career, finding the motivation can be a real challenge. And while it's true nothing gets you moving faster than a cold shower and a case of Red Bull, why not read these motivational quotes instead. They'll help boost your confidence and self-esteem and get you where you want to go without the caffeine.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
--Dale Carnegie

If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
--Carlos Castenada

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
--Robert H. Schuller

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
--Dale Carnegie

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
--Milton Berle

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
--Unknown

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
--Dale Carnegie

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
--Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
--Chuang Tzu

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
--Muhammad Ali

More Motivational Quotes

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
--Robert Collier

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
--Robert Collier

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
--Ralph Hodgson

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
--Dolly Parton

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
--Brian Tracy

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
--Anonymous

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
--Harriet Braiker

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

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
--Oprah Winfrey

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