“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
William Shakespeare
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200 FAMOUS QUOTES · MOTIVATIONAL
Motivational Quotes
Read 200 of the best motivational quotes on success, courage, hard work and never giving up from Swami Vivekananda, Emerson, Thoreau and more.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
William Shakespeare
OpportunityTiming
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.”
William Shakespeare
Self-BeliefResponsibility
“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
BoldnessBeginnings
“Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hard WorkPatience
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hard WorkSuccess
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
PerseveranceDetermination
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”
Robert Browning
AmbitionGoals
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
William Ernest Henley
Self-BeliefStrength
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.”
Rudyard Kipling
ResilienceBalance
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
Thomas Carlyle
WorkPurpose
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
Thomas Carlyle
AchievementImpossible
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson
PerseveranceAchievement
“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”
Horace
BeginningsWisdom
“They can conquer who believe they can.”
Virgil
Self-BeliefVictory
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
ThoughtsMindset
“If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Self-ControlDiscipline
“Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached.”
Bhagavad Gita
ActionDuty
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
CourageFear
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
HopeDreams
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
EnthusiasmAchievement
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-BeliefConfidence
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PositiveToday
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
Hard WorkLuck
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
Benjamin Franklin
PersistenceSmall Steps