“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
Abraham Lincoln
PerseveranceProgress
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Abraham Lincoln
SuccessInspiration
“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.”
Swami Vivekananda
CourageDestiny
“To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. 'I will drink the ocean', says the persevering soul; 'at my will mountains will crumble up'. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.”
Swami Vivekananda
PerseveranceSuccess
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
Swami Vivekananda
PowerSelf-Belief
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
Rabindranath Tagore
CourageFear
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore
FaithHope
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Confucius
ActionHumility
“Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?”
Confucius
LearningPerseverance
“To have faults and not to reform them - this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.”
Confucius
MistakesGrowth
“Hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's.”
Seneca
TodayTime
“When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
Seneca
GoalsDirection
“No great thing is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is.”
Epictetus
PatienceGrowth
“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”
Epictetus
PracticeHabits
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
IntegritySelf-Respect
“The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.”
Marcus Aurelius
ResilienceLife
“The beginning is the most important part of any work.”
Plato
BeginningsWork
“Earnestness is the path of immortality, thoughtlessness the path of death.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
DisciplineFocus
“Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Self-ControlDiscipline
“Let him raise the self by the Self, and not let the self become depressed; for verily is the Self the friend of the self, and also the Self the self's enemy.”
Bhagavad Gita
Self-BeliefMindset
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SuccessSelf-Belief
“Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
FutureCourage
“I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way.”
Robert Browning
PurposeCourage
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run.”
Rudyard Kipling
TimeEffort