What is motivation?
Motivation is your desire to do something with your personal life, at work, in school, in sports, or in any hobbies. The motivation to do something can help you achieve your big goals and dreams, whatever they may be. Knowing how to motivate yourself can help you accomplish anything you set your mind to, so let’s get to that next with some quotes to inspire you.
100+ motivational quotes to inspire your success in 2022
Motivational quotes for entrepreneurs
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain
- “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan
- “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ―Chinese Proverb
- “Only the paranoid survive.” —Andy Grove
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth
- “I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” —Leah Busque
- “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” —Michele Ruiz
- “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ―Arianna Huffington
- “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE.” —Joss Whedon
Motivational quote of the day
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” —William W. Purkey
- “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”―Neil Gaiman
- “Everything you can imagine is real.”―Pablo Picasso
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ―Helen Keller
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll
- “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” —Socrates
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ―Dalai Lama XIV
- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln
Quote of the day
- “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” —Unknown
- “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” —Catherine Pulsifier
- “You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” —Unknown
- “Impossible is just an opinion.” —Paulo Coelho
- “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” —Isabelle Lafleche
- “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” —Elon Musk
- “Hold the vision, trust the process.” —Unknown
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller
- “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” —Unknown
Monday motivational quotes
- “One day or day one. You decide.” —Unknown
- “It’s Monday … time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!” —Heather Stillufsen
- “It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.” ―Marcus Zusak
- “Goodbye, blue Monday.” ―Kurt Vonnegut
- “So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership.” ―Julio-Alexi Genao
- “When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” —Ella Woodword
- “Monday c’est Mon Day.” —Unknown
- “All Motivation Mondays need are a little more coffee and a lot more mascara.” —Unknown
- “I’m alive, motivated and ready to slay the day #MONSLAY.” —Unknown
Friday motivational quotes
- “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” —S. O’Sade
- “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” —Kate Summers
- “Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” —Nanea Hoffman
- “When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” —Catherine Pulsifer
- “Make Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” —Byron Pulsifer
- “I challenge you to let every day be a Friday. Permit yourself to be happy every day.” —Joel Osteen
- “This Friday, finish your work and be done. Look forward to the weekend and have some fun!” —Kate Summers
- “Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.” —Lauren Oliver
- “It’s Friday morning, mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” —Napz Cherub Pellazo
- “Don’t worry about letting the dogs out. It’s Friday! Let them have a great weekend, too.”―Anthony T. Hincks
Hustle motivational quotes
- “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become ‘Successful.’” ―Jaymin Shah
- “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ―Abraham Lincoln
- “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ―Thomas Edison
- “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ―K’wan
- “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” ―Unknown
- “Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap.” ―Unknown
- “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” ―Ross Simmonds
- “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” ―Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” ―Mark Cuban
- “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” ―Unknown
Motivational quotes for employees
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ―Aristotle
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ―Sheryl Sandberg
- “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” ―Marissa Mayer
- “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” ―Vincent Van Gogh
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ―Anne Frank
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” ―Michael Jordan
- “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ―Vincent Van Gogh
- “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” ―Simon Sinek
- “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ ―A.C. Benson
- “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” ―Stanley McChrystal
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ―Lou Holtz
Super motivational quotes
- “The hard days are what make you stronger.” ―Aly Raisman
- “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” ―Wayne Dyer
- “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
- “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ―Shonda Rhimes
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ―George Lorimer
- “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” ―Michelle Obama
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ―Kurt Cobain
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ―Roy T. Bennett
- “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” ―Frank Ocean
Motivational quotes for work
- “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” ―H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ―Tim Notke
- “If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough.” ―Mario Andretti
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ―Thomas Edison
- “The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ―Jimmy Johnson
- “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” ―Oscar Wilde
- “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” ―Benjamin Hardy
- “Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” ―Kamari aka Lyrikal
- “Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” ―Leah LaBelle
Quote of the day for work
- “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” ―Mother Teresa
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ―Earl Nightingale
- “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” ―Kenneth Goldsmith
- “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” ―Oprah Winfrey
- “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill
- “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
- “At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” ―Unknown
- “Amateus sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” ―Stephen King
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ―Steve Jobs
- “Nothing will work unless you do.” ―Maya Angelou
