“Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.”
William Ernest Henley
ResilienceStrength
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.
“Do the Duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.”
Thomas Carlyle
DutyAction
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Samuel Johnson
PracticeHard Work
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
Horace
AdversityTalent
“Fortune favours the bold.”
Virgil
CourageBoldness
“Every wall is a door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ObstaclesOpportunity
“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IndividualityCourage
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
StrengthGrowth
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TodayPeace
“Things do not change; we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
ChangeGrowth
“Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.”
Benjamin Franklin
Hard WorkDiscipline
“Industry need not wish.”
Benjamin Franklin
Hard WorkAction
“At the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.”
Benjamin Franklin
Hard WorkSuccess
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
EffortLife
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Abraham Lincoln
PreparationOpportunity
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
Abraham Lincoln
DeterminationCourage
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Abraham Lincoln
FailureGrowth
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
Swami Vivekananda
GrowthSelf-Belief
“Great undertakings are always fraught with many obstacles. It is these obstacles which knock and shape great characters.”
Swami Vivekananda
ObstaclesCharacter
“In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?”
Swami Vivekananda
CriticismFocus
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!”
Swami Vivekananda
Self-BeliefFaith
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
Rabindranath Tagore
GrowthReadiness
“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”
Rabindranath Tagore
PainJoy
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
CharacterWisdom
“Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
DestinyResponsibility