Best Motivational Thoughts 2023
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Motivational thoughts always useful for the person who demotivated.
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
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| “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 |
Best Motivational Quotes 2023
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt |
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“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.”
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| “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ―Dalai Lama XIV |
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln |
“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
Best Motivational Thoughts 2023 |
| “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 |
| “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 par tnership.” ―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 |
| “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 messagesand 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 nextpaycheck.” —Byron Pulsifer |
“No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become ‘Successful.’” ―JayminShah
Best Motivational Thoughts |
| “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 foolwould sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ―K’wan |
| “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.” ―VincentVan 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 youbelieve, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” ―Simon Sinek |
| “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” ―WayneDyer |
| “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 |
| “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. |
| “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based onwhere they want to be.” ―Benjamin Hardy |
| “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 |
| “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ―Earl Nightingale |
| “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” ―OprahWinfrey |
| “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 |
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love!What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” ―Anne Frank
Best Motivational Thoughts |
| “Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” ―Unknown |
| “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ―John F. Kennedy |
| “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you aredoing or learning to do.” ―Pele |
| “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success.” ―Thomas J. Watson |
| “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” ―Summer Sanders |
| “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” ―Warren Buffett |
| “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” ―Muhammad Ali |
| “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” ―Yuri Kochiyama |
| “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to moveforward.” ―C.S. Lewis |
| “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise,let it roll right off you.” ―Hillary Clinton |
| “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” ―Chantal Sutherland |
“A walk to a nearby park may give you more energy and inspiration in life than spending two hours in front of a screen.” ―Tsang Lindsay
Best Inspirational Thoughts |
| “The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’tachieve it.” ―Jordan Belfort |
| “Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” ―Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” |
| “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ―Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches |
| “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on yourown. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”―Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! |
| “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives lifeits deepest significance.”―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart |
| “Spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.” ―The Breakfast Club |
| “It’s my life. It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just want to live while I’m alive.” ―”It’s My Life,” Bon Jovi |
| “On my own I will just create and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” ―Oprah Winfrey |
| “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 |
| “When something I can’t control happens, I ask myself: Where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?” ―Sara Blakely |
| “‘You could rattle the stars,’ she whispered. ‘You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.’”―Sarah J. Maas |
“It is only when we take chances when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is tobecome honest.” ―Walter Anderson
Positive Quotes |
| “The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” ―William Arthur Ward |
| “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm |
| “Be an encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.” ―Roy T. Bennett |
| “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ―Louise L. Hay |
| “Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” ―Tena Desae |
| “Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.” ―Phillip Sweet |
| “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”―Dwayne Johnson |
| “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ―Stephen Hawking |
| “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” ―Lady Gaga |
| “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ―William Faulkner |
“I really appreciate people who correct me, because without them, I might have been repeating mistakes for a long time.” ―Mufti Menk
Success Quotes – Motivational Thoughts |
| “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” ―William Arthur Ward |
| “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”―Margaret Mead |
| “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ―MayaAngelou |
| “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who seethings differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ―Rob Siltanen |
| “You’re already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you’re tradingyour time for money. Frankly, it’s just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time.” ―Tony Robbins |
| “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” ―Maya Angelou |
| “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you aredoing or learning to do” ―Pele |
| “The greatest gift you could give someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life you can’t get back.” ―Unknown |
| “Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at the right time, it is also about taking actions at the right time.” ―Amit Kalantri |
| “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have livedat all ―in which case, you fail by default.” ―J.K. Rowling |
| “When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.” ―Unknown |
| “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.’ ―Albert Einstein |
| “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ―Roy T. Bennett |
| “Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people,and heart. Winning is the result.” ―Joe Torre |
| “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ―John C. Maxwell |
| “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” ―Dr. Wayne D. Dyer |
| “Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you.” ―Walt Whitman |
| “What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” ―Lionel from the movie Maid in Manhattan |
| “H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.” — |
| “Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden |
| “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius |
| “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ―Oprah Winfrey |
| “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” ―Helen Keller |
“Begin anywhere.” ―John Cage
Best Motivational Thoughts of the year |
| “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are |
| “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinki |
| “Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” ―Gabby Douglas |
| “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard wor |
| Don’t dream about success. Get out there and work for it. |
| “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everyth |
| “You can cry, scream, and bang your head in frustration but keep pushing forward. It’s worth it.”” — |
| “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” ―Muham |
| “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” ―Chris Grosser |
| “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ―Maya Angelou |
| “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ―Katharine Hepburn |
| “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” ―Herb Brooks |
| “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered i |
| “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” ―Abraham Lincoln |
| “Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain |
| “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt |
| “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” ―Buddha |
| “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ―Suzy Kassem |
| “I never lose. Either I win or learn.” ―Nelson Mandela |
| “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” ―Ken Poirot |
| “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move |
| “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ―Tim Ferriss |
| “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ―Martin Luther King Jr. |
| “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is.” ―Unknown |
| “When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.” — |
| “I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” ―Estée Lauder |
| “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” ―Lalah Deliah |
| “If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” ―Susan Fales-Hill |
