“When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.”
Confucius
ResilienceCharacter
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.
“What the superior man seeks, is in himself. What the mean man seeks, is in others.”
Confucius
Self-RelianceCharacter
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
Confucius
IntegrityPrinciples
“The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a small heap of earth.”
Lao Tzu
Small StepsGrowth
“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”
Lao Tzu
Small StepsGreatness
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
FearMindset
“We must make the best use that we can of the things which are in our power, and use the rest according to their nature.”
Epictetus
ControlAcceptance
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not.”
Epictetus
ControlWisdom
“Do every act of thy life as if it were the last.”
Marcus Aurelius
FocusLife
“Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.”
Marcus Aurelius
HumilitySuccess
“By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
DisciplineStrength
“Better one's own duty, though destitute of merit, than the well-executed duty of another.”
Bhagavad Gita
DutyIndividuality
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SuccessExcellence
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch.”
Rudyard Kipling
HumilityCharacter
“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'”
Rudyard Kipling
PerseveranceWillpower
“Please all, and you will please none.”
Aesop
IndividualityWisdom
“United we stand, divided we fall.”
Aesop
TeamworkUnity
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
Aesop
PatienceWisdom
“Work alone is noble.”
Thomas Carlyle
WorkDignity
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
Leonardo da Vinci
TimeProductivity
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
LifePurpose
“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
Horace
Carpe DiemToday
“Endure, and conquer! Jove will soon dispose to future good our past and present woes.”
Virgil
EnduranceHope
“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
Plato
CourageStrength
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IntegritySelf-Belief