Motivation
HOW TO GET MOTIVATED: 14 BEST WAYS FIND THE MOTIVATION TO SUCCEED
Motivation; it’s like a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. We all want it, we all need it, yet most of us just can’t seem to find it when we need it most. If you’re like most, and you want to know how to get motivated, then this article is for you.
As elusive as motivation is, the one for sure thing we know about it, is that most people find it difficult to maintain. Even the gurus, the so-called “motivators” lose their motivation from time to time. And those high-performers, the one’s we see on T.V, or read about in Forbes, Inc., and Success Magazine, the one’s who seem to be crushing all of their goals day after day, have their challenges with motivation every now and again too.
What we’ve observed, is that feeling unmotivated is natural, and it happens to the best of us. But, just because it’s natural, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive to get motivated and stay motivated.
If you’ve been puzzled by the mystery of motivation in the past, and you’re looking for ways to get motivated to fight off those feelings of being stuck or in a slump, then this article is for you.
We created this article as a solution for the loss of drive and desire to achieve that everyone experiences at some point in their lives. This article is especially for you if you’ve fallen victim to those motivational slumps that can potentially squander your future achievements.
So, if achieving more in life is important to you, you’re going to need to fight for your motivation by learning how to get motivated at will. Why? Because fighting for your motivation is the same as fighting for your dreams.
Having said that, if you’re ready to learn about the best ways to find the motivation needed to make progress in your life, then let’s dive right into this list:
HOW TO GET MOTIVATED: 14 BEST WAYS TO FIND YOUR MOTIVATION TO ACHIEVE
By the end of this article you will know how to get motivated to act in spite of your personal circumstances. So, Are you ready to step into the ring and learn what it takes to fight for your dreams? If so, here you go:
1. Have a Dream
The first and most important thing everyone needs if they want to be moved to take action, is to have a dream. People who have a compelling goal or dream to strive for, rarely lack motivation.
This quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery points out quite well the power a dream can have on our motivation levels:
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Most people who lack motivation, lack an exciting vision for what they intend to go after. The keyword here is exciting vision. Oftentimes, we don’t give our goals enough thought.
Give Your Dream Some Serious Thought
Many people choose a goal haphazardly. They choose a goal because they think it’s what they “should” go after, or because it’s a “reasonable” goal. But if you don’t choose a goal based off what you truly want, and if it’s not a goal that resonates deep down in your soul, then you won’t be thrilled to reach it.
But, if you choose to set a goal for yourself that you genuinely desire, a goal that you can clearly see yourself reaching, while having a sense of how amazing things will be once you achieve it, you effectively lay a strong foundation for sustainable motivation.
A wise success guru once said,
“Your better future is a dream, for yourself and for your family. Where do you want to go, what you want to do, what do you want be, what do you want to see. You’ve got to dream dreams.”
Truly, without dreams and visions, our motivation to achieve will perish. So, be sure you decide to go for something that inspires your heart and soul. The clearer and more enticing your dreams, the more intense and lasting your motivation will be. Dream!
2. Make Your Dream a Goal
But, you can’t just stop with a dream. We all have dreams of having a better future, making more money, getting nicer things, gaining more of this and gaining more of that. Everyone dreams, yet not everyone reaches those dreams.
One of the biggest reasons most people don’t come close to ever reaching their dreams is because they run out of motivation. And one of the major reasons people run out of motivation, is because…can you guess it?
One of the major reasons people run out of motivation, is because they never convert their dreams and intentions into a physical goal.
Look, dreams exist in our minds, they are nebulous intentions. And over time, dreams will naturally wither away and morph into memories. But, this doesn’t always have to be the case for them.
No, you can actually give your dreams and the motivation you’ll need to achieve them some lifeblood if you commit your dreams to paper, if you turn them into a written goal. Even neuroscience agrees.[1]
So, If you really want to see your dream become a reality, and have that dream motivate you to take some serious action, putting pen to paper to write that dream down is a good idea.
Remember, we are not the sum of our intentions, we are the sum of our actions. So, do your motivation a favor and transform that dream of yours into a goal, because goals after all, are just dreams with a deadline.
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3. Create Habit Triggers
A very simple, but effective way to get you motivated on those days when you’re not feeling “it”, is to create a habit trigger around motivation.
What’s a habit trigger?
A habit trigger can be anything you set up for yourself as an intentional reminder to prompt you to take action on something. For instance, you can set up a habit trigger to help your stay motivated by placing stickers with motivational phrases near your work-space. Or, you can tape an inspirational message, your goals , or whatever, onto your mirror, to remind you to do a certain thing, act a certain way, or strive for a specific goal every day before you leave the house.
Another effective habit trigger could be something as simple as setting a timer on your phone, so when it goes off, it will remind you to take a break, call someone, send an email, do 10 push-ups or whatever task you’ve associated with the trigger to keep you moving forward on your goals.
Truly, habit triggers are an effective motivational tool that can nudge you to do the little things you most want and need to do to reach your goals.[2]
That said, one of the next best ways to get yourself motivated is to…
4. Create Rituals
Ritual is one of the best kept secrets that many high achievers use to get themselves motivated.
If you were to study a hand full of high performers very closely, you would quickly notice that they don’t depend on motivation to strike before they start taking action on their daily goals. If you watched them closely, you’d notice they have what would seem like some magical ability to do much of what they set out to do, even when they don’t feel like it.
And the way they’re able to keep taking action towards their goals (motivated or not), is because they’ve automated the process of motivation through ritual. Most rituals come in the form of an early morning routine, or late night rituals, but the time of the day is not what matters. What matters is the ritual.[3]
These rituals can look like journaling every day, waking up early and meditating, doing pre-work breathing exercises, cold showers or ice-baths, etc. These rituals can be as varied as the person doing them. But, the important thing is that they help revitalize, refresh, and remind you to keep doing what you’ve committed to achieving.
So, if you want to put your motivation on autopilot, ensure you have a ritual. It will help you move your achievement needle forward, even on the days you don’t feel like it.
5. Get Good Sleep
You may have experienced this before, mentally, you want to do something badly, but physically, you just don’t feel up for it. Often, this lack of energy stems from a lack of sleep. And a lack of energy can transform into a lack of motivation.
We’ve experienced this first hand, but there is also research that backs this up. When we don’t get sufficient levels of sleep, our self-control and cognitive performance both get impaired, and when these bad boys get impaired, our motivation can take a dramatic dip.
So, if you’ve been lacking motivation but not sure why, it could be you just need more sleep.
6. Keep the Momentum
This next step is not so much about getting motivated as it is about staying motivated.
When we first start our chasing a goal adventure we have tons of zest and excitement for it. We spend lots of time thinking, tinkering, and taking action to achieve that goal. But, overtime, especially if it’s a mid to long-term goal, our motivation will dissipate. And naturally, when our motivation starts to wane, it’s far easier to get distracted with a little escape or break from the chase. Of course, this is a big no no.
Sure, taking time off to relax or going on vacation is important every now and then, but, it’s important that you don’t do too much of it. Why? Because for every additional day you take off from pursuing your goals, you’ll increase the resistance you’ll face when you try to get back to the chase.
In short, don’t take to much time off from the hustle, it will kill your momentum. And dead momentum will undermine both your motivation and dreams.
7. Listen to Motivational Music
Sometimes, a little music is all it takes to help us get that spark back. Whenever you feel spent, just fire up some good music and it will usually get you back to 100%.
But don’t just turn on the radio and think that any ole song will do. It won’t. If you’re looking to music to help you get your groove back, your best bet is to listen to something that is tried and true.
Basically, any song that has in the past, helped you stoke your internal fire. So, go with songs that have given you goose bumps or have made you feel like you can conquer the world and create an empire. It doesn’t matter if it’s motivational rap songs, rock songs, or classical, so long as it helps rekindle your fire.
Indeed, music can be a used as a catalyst, it can be the kick in the pants you need to get you back on track and fired up to attack.[4]
8. Watch Motivational Movies
Everyone loves a good movie. They act as an escape from the challenges of the real world, giving us momentary relief in a world of fantasy. But that’s not why we recommend watching movies to get you motivated. We are recommending them because movies have the power to inspire us. The right movie can lift our spirits when we’re feeling down, it can give us hope when we’ve become discouraged. Even when we feel as if our determination has run its course, the right movie can give us a second-wind, it can makes us want to get back on that horse.
Movies, especially the motivational ones, can be energizing and uplifting, they can give us the much-needed motivation boost to help us keep moving in the direction of our dreams.
Put simply, movies are magical, and they can be used as an effective resource to help you put the wind back in your sails.
So, if you’re ever feeling stuck or low on motivation, take a break from the grind, pop in a good flick, and let that movie reinvigorate your will to achieve.
9. View Motivational Videos to Get Motivated
If you’re like me, you may always be pressed for time. And finding one and a half to two hours to watch a motivational movie may be impossible. If that’s that case, the next best thing is to watch motivational videos.
The great thing is, there’s no shortage of motivational videos. A quick search on YouTube or Google usually provides a great list of videos to choose from.
A good motivational video can give you the perfect jolt of “I can do this” to get you humming along again and hustling to achieve your goals. Here at the Strive, many of our staff say they watch motivational videos every few days to keep their spirits up. No doubt, they do this because movies act as a good reminder of what’s possible and they can help us maintain our enthusiasm for our goals.
So, for a quick daily jolt of mojo, motivation videos are great way to go.
10. Rest, Relax, and Recharge
Believe it or not, small breaks can improve your concentration and long breaks can replenish your overall job/work performance.
Clinical psychologist, Francie Lederer states that “Most people have better life perspective and are more motivated to achieve their goals after a vacation, even if it is a 24-hour time-out.”[5]
And we agree with her assessment. Every time we take a break from our business pursuits, we feel like we come back stronger. We tend to have more energy for the tasks at hand, new and fresh ideas that we didn’t have before, and are now excited to put into practice. Yup, a little R and R always leads to renewed interest in achieving our goals.
No doubt, sometimes all we need to get rid of those feelings of being stuck or unmotivated is a little rest and relaxation.
11. Find Your Motivation Via Accountability
One of the best ways to get you past the resistance and motivational slumps you may face in life, is to find an accountability partner or group.
Inherent in the strive for a goal, is resistance and those reoccurring moments where you lose your mojo. But, when you have an accountability partner or group, you have a mechanism in place to push you past those low points when you can’t do it yourself.
Accountability partners are highly effective, which is why there is such a big market for accountability coaching these days. Of course, you don’t have to always buy a coach or buy into a group to find such accountability. You could just as easily create your own group on Facebook or find a good friend to partner up with.
So long as you trust your accountability partners to work with you, and not let you off the hook, a self-created accountability group can be just as effective as an accountability coach you pay for.
12. Avoid Negativity
Reading the news, surfing negative sites on the internet, or talking to people who leave you feeling drained and negative will have an impact on your mood and motivation. And not a good impact at that.
Truth is, negativity is a motivation killer. The news will have you fearing everything under the sun, tempting you be overcautious and risk averse.
Negative friends and co-workers can also make you doubt your abilities. They’ll leave you feeling discouraged and pessimistic about what’s possible for you.
What you’re left with then, is fear of failure, doubt, and discouragement. All these things then lead to feelings of “What’s the point”? And that kind of attitude is never good for motivation. And little motivation means little achievement.
So, be sure to avoid the news, and avoid negative people. And instead, focus on feelings of gratitude. Read uplifting content and surround yourself with positive people. Obviously, you won’t be able to completely eradicate all negativity from your life, but by limiting your exposure to as much of it as possible, you will significantly improve how you feel about yourself and your pursuits.
And your attitude can make all the difference in how motivated you feel.
13. Trust in The Power of Pursuit
There will be times when you get discouraged, when you lack energy, when you’ll want to quit because you’ve stopped believing in the merits of the achievement. These moments come when you doubt that what you’re pursuing will ever come to fruition. When this happens most people want to throw in the towel.
If you ever get to this point, where your motivation seems to be at zero, you’ll be surprised to know that having a little faith can do wonders for you. To jumpstart your motivation with faith, here’s what you must do; surrender to the idea that your success is inevitable.
In other words, start trusting in the power of pursuit. Put your trust in the wisdom of all the successful people who have come before you. Heed their wise words…. wise words like:
So, If you feel like you are putting in the work, the effort, and the time, but your lack of results has you feeling down, just believe that things will eventually work out for you.
Trust that what you seek is also seeking you. Do this, and you will without a doubt, reignite the energy and enthusiasm behind your pursuits.
Following this step will work wonders for finding your motivation, trust us.
14. Use Force
Last, but not least, when all is said and done, and you’ve exhausted all other options to get motivated, your last resort is to strong arm your motivation.
You can know exactly how to get what you want, and you can follow all of the steps previously outlined to get yourself motivated and fired up for your goals again. But, if all else has failed, this is what you must to do. You must use force. We know, it’s not a sexy solution, or what you want to hear. But, sometimes, motivation requires action, and action requires force. And believe it or not, action often comes before motivation.
Truly, if you would just force yourself to take action, often times your motivation will kick in. The creators of Nike understood this, and that’s why their motto is “Just Do It!”
Sometimes, all we really needs is a good nudge. A small kick-start can help us get the ball rolling enough to have our mojo come back.
Now, if you’re not willing to take this step, then you’ll have to either quit or change your goal. Of course, if quitting isn’t in the cards for you, then you know what you must do. Force yourself to do what you’ve made up your mind to do. Because at the end of the day, nothing happens till you start moving and doing. So, motivation or not, if you want to achieve your goals, you’ll have to force yourself to take action.
Bonus Ways to Get Motivated:
Alright, here is one last bonus to help you truly get your motivation back up and primed for achievement. This bonus section consists of a handful of additional resources you can leverage to get you motivated and back in action.
So, here they are, enjoy:
25 Best Motivational Books of All-Time
100 Other Motivational Sites to Inspire You
Best Motivational Quotes For Daily Success
Conclusion
There you have it, 14 solid ways to help you get and stay motivated to achieve like a champ. Now that you know how to get motivated, whipping your motivational issues into shape should be a breeze.
No doubt, there will still be days when your motivation and drive runs low. But now you know where to find the keys…. right here on the TheSTRIVE.co.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
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Motivation is that spark that fuels our journey to achieve big goals, dreams, and financial success. But let’s face it—some days, that fire in our bellies flickers or fades. Yesterday, you were ready to conquer the world; today, you might need a boost. That’s where our Daily Motivational Quote comes in. At The Strive, we’re here to reignite your passion with a fresh, powerful quote every day.
Bookmark this page and visit daily to keep your motivation burning bright. Each Daily Motivational Quote is carefully chosen to inspire action, resilience, and success. Share today’s quote with others to spread the inspiration! Without further ado, here’s your Daily Motivational Quote to fuel your drive:
DAILY MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
Summary: Don’t waste time. If you want to get ahead and truly make progress on your goals, you have to make the most of each day.
You can relax when you reach your goals, until then…..squeeze everything out of each day.
Till you reach your aims,
STRIVE
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Everyone appreciates a great comeback story. It doesn’t matter if its about a person who after hitting rock-bottom turns their whole life around, or someone who against all odds achieves their dreams. Rooting for the underdog is baked into our DNA.
“It’s Not Over Till It’s Over.”
With that said, we understand that if you’re reading this page right now, there’s a good chance that you may be experiencing your own challenges right now. You may feel like you’re up against the ropes, or like you can’t turn things around in your life. If that is you, just remember, it isn’t over till it’s over… and you can mount a comeback.
We’ve got your back, and we are rooting for you. Which is why we’ve pulled together some of the most powerful and motivating comeback quotes. Our hope is that these quotes remind you to keep fighting, to stay hopeful, and if you’ve fallen, to get back up. May these quotes inspire you to make your comeback.
BEST COMEBACK QUOTES TO OVERCOME SETBACKS
1. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi
2. “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.” – Kobe Bryant
3. “If I can comeback from where I come from, then you can do it too.” – Tyson Fury
4. “Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.” – Steven Adler
5. “The comeback is always stronger than the setback.” – Anonymous
6. “What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” – Lionel Block
7. “Celebrate small victories. Although they may not yet count as your big comeback, these will help re-establish your self-esteem and empower you to take on the challenges that lie ahead.” – Salma El-Shurafa
8. “Great people make failure the cornerstone of their success.” – Anonymous
9. “You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.” – Muhammad Ali
10. “A setback is a setup for a comeback.” – Les Brown
11. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
12. “Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” – Les Brown
13. “It’s not over till you WIN!” – Les Brown
14. “I am making the comeback of the century.” – Bob Backlund
15. “A setback only paves the way for a comeback.” – Evander Holyfield
16. “I wanted to show the world that it can be done. Anything is possible with the right mindset. If you believe in yourself and you sacrifice and dedicate, with the right help you can come back.” – Tyson Fury
17. “Failure is not the end. Failure is the the start of your comeback story.” – Anonymous
18. “I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.” – Billie Holiday
19. “When life knocks you down, get back up, and whatever you do, don’t stop swinging!” – The STRIVE
20. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
21. “I just showed the world tonight, everyone suffering from mental health. You can comeback, it can be done.” – Tyson Fury
22. “To anyone who is struggling early in the morning or late at night in pursuit of your dream, struggles that many will never see, and to any leaders out there, who believe in someone who does not yet believe in themselves, keep going. Keep going, because WILL always finds a WAY.” – Tom Brady
23. “A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.” – Donna de Varona
24. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
25. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
26. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
27. “Failure is often a prerequisite for your success; not a life sentence.” – Anonymous
28. “Setbacks are part and parcel of life. But, if you can see each set back as but another opportunity to spring you further ahead of where you were before your set back, you’ll become unstoppable.” – The STRIVE
29. “Today’s struggle is tomorrow’s strength, and today’s failure is tomorrow’s reward.” – Comeback Quote
30. “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” – Stephen Richards
31. “I’ve missed more than 9000 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 again in my life.” And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
32. “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky
33. “The secret to mounting a successful comeback is to never stop believing.” – Nathan Lee Morales
34. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But soon or late the one who wins, Is the one who thinks he can!” – Walter D. Wintle
35. “A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes.” – Anderson Silva
36. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
37. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
Halfway There
You’re more than halfway done, great job! With that said, we hope these comeback quotes are reigniting the fighting spirit within, so you can overcome whatever challenges you may be facing in life.
If you’re not feeling fired up to make your comeback yet, well then, by all means, please keep hammering away at these comeback quotes. The best is yet to come!
38. “The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders.” – Ben Stein
39. “All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.” – Steven Spielberg
40. “Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win.” – Rihanna
41. “There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.” – Rachel Griffiths
42. “It’s never too late to make a comeback.” – Christina Katz
43. “You can’t master your future if you’re still a slave to your past.” – Rihanna
44. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
45. “My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.” – Thomas Muster
46. “The biggest comeback is making yourself happy again.” – Anonymous
47. “I don’t know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.” – Lane Kiffin
48. “I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.” – Shaggy
49. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin “
50. “Sometimes, a winner is a dreamer who just won’t quit.” – Rudy
51. “But ultimately what matters most is resilience–the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.” – Arianna Huffington
52. “A comeback is a setback that did its homework, learned the lesson, and then moved forward.” – Eleanor Brownn
53. “When you’re crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.” – Steve Maraboli
54. “Live the Life of Your Dreams. When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” – Roy T. Bennett
55. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad
56. “Brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to show us how much we want something.” – Randy Pausch
57. “I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew.” – Baker Mayfield
58. “We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.” – Stephen Covey
59. “It’s possible that you can bounce back from adversity and reinvent your life.” – Atlas Rowe
60. “You must fail a hundred times to succeed once.” – Sylvester Stallone
61. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
62. “If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost certain you won’t.” – Walter D. Wintle
63. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
64. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz
65. “The belief that I could still do it, inspired me to work harder.” – Phil Mickelson
66. “I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.” – Alonzo Mourning
67. “So don’t give up, don’t look down, cause your time is gonna come around.” – Kevin Rudolpf
68. “Your “I CAN” is more important than your IQ.” – Robin Sharma
69. “You can make a comeback, but ONLY if believe you can.” – Nathan Lee Morales
70. “The secret to life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” – Paulo Coelho
71. “In business, setbacks are a part of the game. Whether it’s small losses (losing a deal to a competitor), or big ones (the inability to break even); failure is normal. But, so is dusting yourself off and bouncing back when those setbacks come your way. In fact, your success as an entrepreneur is directly related to how well you bounce back from failure.” – Emily Andrews
72. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
73. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
74. “I think it’s more than whether or not you win or lose. It’s having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.” – Phil Mickelson
75. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice a work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
76. “Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand.” – Germany Kent
77. “Yesterday I dared to struggle, today I dare to win.” – Bernadette Devlin
78. “Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.” – Dalai Lama
79. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Robert Downey Jr.
80. “I stayed true to my dreams, and eventually they came true.” – Kevin Hart
81. “We can stay here and get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light.” – Coach Tony D’Amato, Any Given Sunday
82. “Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.” – Dara Torres
83. “In every adversity lies the seed of an equal or greater opportunity.” – Napoleon Hill
84. “Every setback has a major comeback.” – Russell Wilson
85. “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” – Tom Landry
86. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” – Robert Kiyosaki
87. “I’ve always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that’s kind of just been my MO for my whole career.” – Serena Williams
88. “Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.” – Walt Disney
89. “I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.” – Thomas Edison
90. “One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.” – Colonel Sanders
91. “If you can look up, then you can get up.” – Les Brown
92. “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” – Usain Bolt
93. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar
94. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
96. “The most successful people see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping stone to greatness.” – Shawn Anchor
96. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters How you are going to finish.” – Nick Vujicic
97. “In the depth of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
98. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
99. “Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.”
100. “You can’t make a comeback if you don’t get back up.” – Atlas Rowe
101. “Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.” – Anonymous
102. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
103. “From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks, conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.” – Niki Lauda
104. “We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?” – Kendrick Lamar
105. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
106. “The best story is a comeback story.” – Nathan Lee Morales
107. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Chuck Palahniuk
108. “Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.” – Steven Ader
109. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
110. “Once you’ve hit rock bottom the only way is up.” – Anonymous
111. “Quite or make a comeback. The choice is yours.” – Anonymous
112. “You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up.” – Tim Tebow
113. “It is in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.” – James Altucher
114. “In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.” – Chris Connelly
115. “You’re gonna have to go through hell. Worse than any nightmare that you’ve ever dreamed. But in the end, you know you’ll be the one standing. You know what you’ve gotta go. Do it. Do it!” – Apollo Creed
Bonus Comeback Quote
Bonus: Out of all our comeback quotes this one is a bonus as it comes from someone who knows a thing or two about making a comeback. Once ridiculed by his class and his teacher after telling them about his dream to be on the Television someday, to then eventually having to live out of his car, homeless, for three whole years while he struggled to reach his dream, Steve Harvey knows what it means to make a comeback.
“Your Setback Is Just A Setup For Your Comeback.”
– steve harvey –
Final Thoughts
Alright, there you have it, the best of the best when it comes to comeback quotes. We hope you got what you came for… massive amounts of encouragement to help you keep your eye on the prize, a reminder to never surrender, and new inspiration to aid you in mounting your own personal comeback.
Your victory is just around the corner!
Till then,
STRIVE
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Setting goals is a crucial part of success. No matter what you want to achieve in life, be it in your career, relationships, or in business, identifying what you want to achieve and then making a plan to move toward that destination is one of the most important steps of all.
When you know what you want and the exact outcome you desire, you can then create a plan and take action to get there. This is why setting goals works. Extraordinary people are able to produce amazing results in life because they have a clear goal that they want to achieve in mind. They know what they want, and then they get to work on their goals, every single day.
With that being said, if you want to master yourself, achieve greater results in life, and ultimately make your dreams a reality, you’ll need to learn how to set and achieve your goals. So, here are the top 10 ways to achieve your goals in 2026. Enjoy!
Top 10 Ways To Achieve Your Goals This Year
1. Always Keep Your Goals in Your Mind
One of the most common reasons why some people fail at their goals while others succeed at them, is that those who successfully achieved their goals are really adept at keeping their goals top of mind.
Of course, this is easier said than done. But, it is backed up by the one of the most well-known success phrases of all-time…“You become what you think about most of the time”. It’s a phrase that conveys the fact that your life is organized around your thoughts. Hence, your dominant thoughts will determine how you will live your life.
If you always think about having not enough money, guess what, you will not be having enough money. You will find it hard to come up with extra money and there are always more days left at the end of the money.
Your thoughts dictate your life. Tony Robbins once said, “Where you focus goes, energy flows”, thus, if you always think about your goals and focus on them, that’s what you will create in your life. So, always choose to consciously think about your goals.
This is why you need to write down your goals, review them, visualize them, and see yourself achieve them. Make a vision board for your goals if you want to.
2. Make Sure Your Goals Align With Your Inner Values
Next up on the list of top 10 ways to achieve your goals is to ensure they align with your values. Yes, you have to make sure your goals align with your inner values. You don’t want to set a goal that is not in harmony with your values.
For example, if you are someone who values security more than adventure, setting a goal like traveling alone around the world may not work for you. Even if you force yourself to do it, you will not enjoy the progress and the experience.
Here’s another example, many people set income goals. And if money isn’t their main purpose, their goals will never work. They will find it hard to come up with the drive to put themselves into action and they will find ways to sabotage their own success.
This is what happens when your goals conflict with your values. Instead, learn to set goals that align with your inner values. Set goals that make your heart sing.
Related: Goal Setting Mistakes to Avoid
3. Make Your Goals Measurable
Are your goals measurable? Most people set very general and vague goals like, “I want to become rich”, or “I want to be happy”, etc., but these goals are vague, and they are not measurable.
Let me ask you, if your goal is to live a happy life, how do you know when you have achieved it? That’s the problem. When your goal isn’t measurable, you will never know when you have reached it.
So, make your goals quantifiable. Make them measurable so that you can tell when you have reached them. Plus, when something is measurable, you can then come up with a specific action plan to achieve it.
If your goals are not measurable, you will work day and night without knowing if you have reached them.
4. Identify the Lead Measures
Lead measure is an important measure of your goals. Most people focus on their main target or the results they want, but they don’t focus on their lead measures, and this is why they fail.
Your lead measures are the measures that directly impact the results of your goals.
For instance, if your goal is to lose weight, the two main lead measures are exercise and diet. How much time do you spend to exercise each week? And do you track your diet and calorie intake?
You see, these two measures will directly impact your goal of losing weight. If you want to achieve your goal, then all you need to do is to focus on the two lead measures: exercise and diet.
And you hit your exercise and diet target, you will automatically reach your weight loss goal.
Here’s another classic example. If you want to increase your sales, what should you do? You focus on prospecting and presentation. The more prospects you present to, the higher your number of sales. Therefore, the number of prospects you approach, and sales presentation you deliver are the two lead measures you must work on.
When you achieved your lead measure goals, you will achieve your main goal, which is to increase your sales. So, focus and work on the lead measures.
5. Focus on Making Progress
Next, don’t always think about your goals and the results, when it comes to maintaining your momentum, you need to focus on making progress.
As a blogger, one of my goals is to build a huge responsive subscribers list from my blog. But if I focus on the result, the number of subscribers I get each day, I’m going to fail. Why? When I first started, my blog is new and there are no visitors and subscribers.
So, if I think about my goal of having a ton of subscribers, I will feel dejected, lose my motivation, and eventually give up on my blog. Instead, I choose to focus on making progress.
I know that if I want to grow my subscribers, I will need to publish new articles consistently. Hence, I focus on publishing content. Every time I published a new article, I celebrate and reward myself. I feel good about it and it drives me to continue publishing new content.
And so, day after day, I make progress. And slowly, the number of visitors to my blog increases, and the same goes for my number of subscribers.
Can you notice the difference? Having a goal is important, but to achieve your goal, you need to make progress. Hence, it is more important to focus on the progress than to only think about your goals and do nothing.
Let your progress motivate you and get you to your goals.
6. Work on Improving Yourself Every Day
There is no way you can achieve your goals if you don’t improve yourself. You are where you are because of what you know and what you do. If you want to get to a new place, you need to do something different, and that requires you to improve yourself.
I love to give an example of playing games. If the character in your game is at level 3 and you need to fight a level 5 enemy, you will find the enemy difficult to beat. But as you play the game, gain better experience, and level up your character, say to level 8, the same level 5 enemy will be easy to beat.
Therefore, work on improving your level. When the size of you increase, the problem will become a small problem.
It is the size of you that matters, not the size of the problem. If you think you are having a big problem right now, it is because the size of you is small. You must learn to improve yourself so that the problems become no problem for you.
Related: Motivation Journals for Self-Improvement
7. Set Goals That Are Fun and Exciting
Think about it, if something isn’t fun or exciting, will you have the motivation to achieve it? Obviously, the answer is no. But unfortunately, that’s what most people do. They set goals that are not fun or exciting to them.
You have to understand that if you want to achieve your goals, your goals must be fun and exciting so that you will want to wake up each morning and work on them. If your goals are boring and uninspiring, you will choose to continue to sleep than to wake up and chase them.
Set a goal that makes your heart sing. Be passionate about your goals and make sure you are excited when you think, talk, and work on your goals.
8. Make Your Goals Challenging
Besides making your goals fun and exciting, you must also make them challenging. Why? Because that’s the only way you can grow.
You see, Albert Einstein once said, “A ship is safe at the harbor, but that’s not why it is built for.” Your life is meant to be fun, exciting, and challenging. You want to live a remarkable life, isn’t it? Hence, make your goals challenging.
Think about it, if you are currently earning $5,000 a month, making an additional $100 isn’t going to make you jump out of your bed in the morning. What you want is to have a goal that is challenging and inspiring.
You want your goals to force you out of your comfort zone so that you can grow and become someone better, and worthy of the goals.
9. Take Baby Steps Each Day
It doesn’t matter how big your goals or how difficult they are, as long as you take baby steps and make progress each day, you will eventually get to your goals.
The key is in making progress every day. You can’t achieve your goals by thinking about them, you need to do something.
There is a saying, “If you swing the ax five times, every day, eventually the tree will fall.” Yes, no matter how big the tree, if you just swing an ax at it just five times a day, it will eventually fall.
The same principle applies to your life and your goals. As long as you take action and persist in working on your goals every day, you will eventually arrive at your destination.
Therefore, be consistent. Commit to taking at least 5 baby steps each day, and trust me, you will achieve your goals faster than you thought possible.
10. Believe in Your Goals and Trust Yourself That You Can Do It
Last up on this list of the 10 ways to achieve your goals is related to belief. You need to believe in your goals and trust yourself that you can do it. First, you must believe that your goals are possible. And second, you must trust that you can achieve them.
When you truly believe you can achieve your goals, you will do whatever it takes to reach them. Think about why people buy lottery tickets. Well, it is because they believe that they stand a chance to win, right? If you don’t believe you stand a chance to win, you will never bother buying the lottery ticket.
The same goes for your goals. When you believe that you can achieve them, you will do it with a 100% commitment rather than a half-hearted attempt.
Therefore, believe that your goals are possible and trust that you can achieve them.
Conclusion
There is no way you are going to achieve your goals if you all you do is sit there and do nothing. Reading this article is good because it helps you understand what you need to do to achieve the results you want, but until you implement the knowledge and take action, nothing is going to happen.
“Dream Big, Start Small, But Most Of All, Start.”
– Simon Sinek –
Hence, don’t just think and daydream about your goals and the success you want. Make this year your best year ever by using these 10 ways to achieve your goals. If you need a little reminder, you can always print out or save the summarized tips for achieving your goals below:
It is true that this year has been challenging and tough, but if you keep a positive attitude, focus on your goals, and do what is necessary, you can make 2026 a life-transforming year. Use these goal achieving tips to help you make progress, and leverage these daily motivational quotes to stay positive and upbeat.
Till next time,
STRIVE
PS – We hope you enjoyed these top 10 ways to achieve your goals, but never lose sight of this important fact: Achieving goals doesn’t just magically happen. Goal achievement requires a plan. So, if you truly want to make 2026 a life-transforming year, this resource will absolutely help you make it happen.
Life has many demands, and success many requirements. And while most would agree that reaching your short and long-term goals requires a strict and unwavering determination to achieve them, sometimes going with flow is absolutely necessary to keep you on track.
There will be times when you can’t do what you want, or get what you want (at least not immediately). Moments where your flexibility and adaptiveness is all that keep things going according to plan. Times when your going with the flow is all that keeps the ship from sinking.
So, to honor the invaluable ability to flex, bend, and adapt to keep things from breaking, we’ve rounded up some of the very best quotes about going with the flow. May they inspire you to be open and ready to adapt to your challenges so you can win in the long run. Enjoy!
35+ Most Inspirational Go With The Flow Quotes
1. “Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen…trusting that whichever way it goes. It’s for the best.” – Mandy Hale
2. “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee
3. “Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.” – Elif Shafak
4. “Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue… as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.” – Victor Frankl
5. “A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.” – Lao Tzu
6. “Going with the flow is responding to the cues from the Universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life Force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.” – Danielle LaPorte
7. “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it…it’s just easier if you do.” – Byron Katie
8. “Going with the flow is soothing, but risky.” – Jenny Holzer
9. “It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.” – Mick Jagger
10. “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
11. “If you can’t control the current of the river then don’t fight it, just go with the flow.” – Anonymous
12. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” – Tom Robbins
13. “Nothing will ever go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.” – Leon Brown
14. “Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.” – Benjamin Franklin
15. “Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.” – Jessica Hagedorn
16. “Nothing is set in stone. Things change all the time. Tides change, feelings change, perspectives change. Don’t worry, just go with the flow.” – Anonymous
17. “Sometimes everything his you all at once. You lose a relationship, change jobs, old friends go and new friends come. It’s up one day and down the next. You have it all together on Monday and by Thursday you don’t have a clue. Life is one big wave and all we can do is flow, adapt, and transform.” – Sylvester McNutt
18. “Flexibility is the key to stability.” – John Wooden
19. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee
20. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein
21. “Going with the flow is not about being a dead fish that floats where the river takes you. It’s about being alive, thinking for yourself, making choices, and living your best life as well as you can.” – Mercury
22. “Action and adaptability create opportunity.” – Garrison Wynee
23. “It’s not always easy to go with the flow but sometimes, it’s necessary to live the best versions of our lives.” – Rebecca Crespo
24. “Going against the flow is like actually going against your own self. It works counter to what you actually want. When we instead seek to find the flow and then converge with it, life opens up.” – Kerry Campbell
25. “Follow your heart and go with the flow.” – Kunal Karan Kapoor
26. “The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.” – Mandy Hale
27. “Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.” – Zhuangzi
28. “Move with the flow. Don’t fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don’t try to carry it.” – Oprah Winfrey
29. “Don’t go with the flow, or against it. Create your own.” – Laurie Buchanan
30. “Be the flow.” – Jay Z
31. “Life is like a river. You just have to go with the flow and not let the pesky rocks in the water get in your way.” – Meg Bowling
32. “No matter how much structure we create in our lives, no matter how many good habits we build, there will always be things that we cannot control — and if we let them, these things can be a huge source of anger, frustration and stress. The simple solution: learn to go with the flow.” – Leo Babauta
33. “Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.” – Angie Martinez
34. “Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” – Heraclitus
35. “The more I see, the less I know… The more I like to let it go….” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
36. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao-Tzu
37. “It’s fine if you go with the flow every now and again. But if you do it to often, you may just end up going where the flow goes, which is downhill or in a ditch.” – Atlas Rowe
38. “Life is a constant movement. Whenever the flow stops, there is death. All full stops belong to death; life is unaware of any full stop.” – Osho
Final Thoughts
We hope you enjoyed these go with the flow quotes. But most importantly, we hope they inspired you to relax a little and allow yourself to be more willing to flow with life, versus against it.
Till next time,
STRIVE
Most people don’t know this, but all it takes to shift our mindset is one word. One powerful word said at the right time and in the right way can reanimate just about anyone. Words are powerful, words are life. Which is why we’ve pulled together this collection of the most powerful one word quotes.
Our hope is that you’ll use these one word quotes when you’re short on time and short on motivation. They’re quick and easy to recite, and they have power to stir up within you the energy and motivation needed to take on the day.
So, if you’re ready for some of the best words to help you reignite your own indomitable spirit, then let’s dive right in:
BEST ONE WORD QUOTES
1. Achieve. To reach or obtain that desire which stirs within your heart.
2. Action. Seizing the moment right now to reach your aims.
3. Adventure. Do more than just exist. Live a life full of adventure.
4. Attitude. A little thing that makes a big difference. Pick a good one.
5. Ambition. The desire to be, do, have, and become all that you can be.
6. Badass. Having the mindset, attitude, and willingness to be unapologetically you.
7. Believe. What you believe yourself to be you are.
8. Blessed. Realizing how lucky and fortunate you actually are.
9. Brave. When you’re scared to death but you step forward anyway.
10. Champion. Getting up even when you can’t to grind it out until you win.
11. Change. The desire to become all that you can be.
12. Confidence. Seizing the moment, and doing what you must to reach your aims.
13. Competition. To reach or obtain that thing that stirs within your heart.
14. Consistency. It’s what transforms average into excellence.
15. Courage. Feeling the fear, and doing the thing anyway.
16. Create. Your secret super power is your power to create. Imagine it, then create it.
17. Dare. Having the courage to go out on a limb and dare mighty things.
18. Dedication. Give your whole heart and mind to the goal at hand. Success requires it.
19. Determination. The difference between can and can’t, is decided by your determination.
20. Discipline. Do what must be done. The architect of success is discipline.
21. Dreams. The things that keep you from sleeping, not what you see while sleeping.
22. Effort. The key to unlocking your potential is effort.
23. Empower. Helping others see what they are capable of.
24. Encourage. To embolden others to do what’s necessary.
25. Enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
26. Entrepreneurship. The engine of economic development and prosperity.
27. Excellence. Strive for excellence, make each day our masterpiece, and success will follow.
28. Expectations. In order to win, you must expect to win.
29. Fearless. Success and fortune favors the fearless.
30. Focus. Results follow focus, and your focus determines your reality.
31. Forgiveness. Forgiveness doesn’t change the past, but it does change your future.
32. Freedom. Freedom is the power to live as one wishes.
33. Go. Taking action, because the future is promised to no one.
34. Goals. Your dreams with a deadline.
35. God. The awe-inspiring creative force which makes all things possible.
36. Gratitude. The key to unlocking fullness of life.
37. Greatness. Greatness is a choice, its a choice to realize your potential.
38. Grind. Putting in the work and getting ahead while everyone else is taking it easy.
39. Grit. That “do or die” attitude found amongst those who possess an indomitable spirit.
40. Growth. Embrace growth. Because if you’re not growing, you’re dying.
41. Guts. No guts, no glory. Know guts, Know glory.
42. Happiness. Life is short, choose to be be happy.
43. Healthy. Your health is your wealth, it’s the foundation of a successful life.
44. Heart. It’s what champions are made of.
45. Hope. Being able to see the light in spite of the darkness.
46. Hunger. The only differentiation in people is hunger; it’s not talent.
47. Hustle. Taking massive determined action.
48. Imagine. Imagination is the beginning of creation. If you can imagine it, you can create it.
49. Inspiration. Breathing life into others, moving people through your actions and words.
50. Joy. Choose joy today. It’s an inside job.
51. Leadership. It’s not about titles, it’s about showing the way through action.
52. Learning. Continual learning is a pre-requisite of continual success.
53. Legacy. Your legacy is your message to the world. Make sure it’s an inspiring one.
54. Liberty. The state of being free. Individual liberty is individual power.
55. Live. You only get one life, live it to the fullest.
56. Love. It’s like the wind, you can feel it, but can’t see it.
57. Mastery. Intense focus applied to a specific field of knowledge over time leads to Mastery.
58. Millionaire. Become one for what it will make of you to achieve it.
59. Mindset. Your life is a good as your mindset.
60. Money. Money is energy. It’s also the embodiment of the value you create.
61. Motivation. The driving force by which humans achieve their goals.
62. Moves. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. Make your move.
63. Opportunity. Problems in disguise that are usually dressed in overalls and looks like work.
64. Optimism. The positively hopeful and expectant attitude the leads to achievement.
65. Passion. Passion is energy and the genesis of genius.
66. Peace. A tranquil, blissful, and beautiful state of being that begins with a smile.
67. Perseverance. Stubbornness with purpose, and the secret of all triumphs.
68. Persistence. Often mistaken as genius, it’s the last key that unlocks potential.
69. Positivity. The choice to see the world through the lens of optimism and hope.
70. Possibilities. The world of opportunity that opens up when you believe in yourself.
71. Potential. Becoming the fullest expression of the person you can be.
72. Power. The ability to do good things for others.
73. Progress. Little by little, a little becomes a lot.
74. Prosperity. The enemy of sloth and the fruit of labor.
75. Purpose. Your role in enabling the divine purpose in the unfolding of the Universe.
76. Pursuit. Relentlessly chasing that dream that sets your soul on fire.
77. Relentless. The incessant drive to give your best, and then to give even more.
78. Resilience. That thing that keeps you moving forward in the face of adversity.
79. Respect. Its earned, never given.
80. Results. Results are the name of the game, not excuses.
81. Self-Esteem. Knowing that you are loveable, and feeling like you are capable.
82. Self-Made. We’re all self-made but it’s only the successful that admit it.
83. Self-Reliance. The highest expression of self-respect, the key to the cage.
84. Serendipity. When life drops blessings on your lap and you weren’t even looking for it.
85. Stillness. The key to outers strength. Be still, and you’ll know.
86. Strength. That growth which comes only through continuous effort and struggle.
87. Strive. Success is always possible for the person who just keeps striving.
88. Success. The progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
89. Think. As you think, so shall you become.
90. Thrive. To grow, develop, succeed. To live your best life.
91. Time. Time is gold, and wasted time is wasted treasure.
92. Triumph. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
93. Trust. Takes long to build, easily broken, but it’s the best proof of love.
94. Victory. Great victory requires great sacrifice.
95. Wealth. Wealth begins in the mind. Its in ideas not money.
96. Willpower. The primary difference between the successful and the unsuccessful.
97. Win. It’s fun, it feels good, and no one remembers the losers.
98. Wisdom. Wisdom is never an accident, it’s the acquired skill of applying knowledge rightly.
99. Work. The common denominator of success and riches is work.
100. Worth. You are worthy and worth something. Ignore anyone who tells you otherwise.
101. Yolo. Because life is short and you only live once.
Final Thoughts
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Everyone knows Monday is one of the most challenging days of the week to get motivated. But Thursday’s can be just as menacing. Thursday’s are menacing because the motivation (or lack thereof) that we feel on this day can catch us off guard. If you woke up this morning and thought to yourself, “I can’t believe it’s not Friday yet?” or “Dang, it’s barely Thursday?”, then you’ve got a Thursday motivation problem.
The good news is, you’re not alone. Everyone experiences low motivation from time to time, especially on Thursdays. And the even better news is, we’ve pulled together a few quotes and handful of related resources to help you find some of that elusive Thursday work motivation.
With that said, if you’re looking for that second-wind that we could all use on Thursday to finish the week strong, let’s dive in:
Best Quotes for Thursday Work Motivation
1. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
2. “On Thursday, no matter how difficult and distracting life is, our job is to focus, to work through it, to keep our eyes and our efforts where they belong.” – Rick Pitino
3. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
4. “On this Thursday take nothing for granted. Look around and show gratitude for your work, your family, and your friends.” – Theodore W. Higginsworth
5. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Thursday is one day closer to my expectation that everything I have done through the week culminates in progress.” – Byron Pulsifer
7. “Everything is either an opportunity to learn and grow or an obstacle that keeps you stuck…you get to choose.” – Thursday Thoughts
8. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns
9. “If you keep doing what you been doing, you’ll keep getting, what you been getting.” – Steve Harvey
10. “Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Anonymous
11. “Your competition is hoping you’ll take it easy today, don’t.” – The Strive
12. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth
13. “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.” – Quote for Thursday
14. “Let this Thursday be filled with possibilities – be aware of the opportunities around you; don’t just go through the day, live the day with your eyes and your mind open.” – Anonymous
15. “Hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but improves its chances.” – B.J. Gupta
More Thursday Motivation For Work
You’re halfway through our Thursday work motivation resource. Great job! We sincerely hope these curated quotes are motivating you.
But don’t stop now, as there are still a handful of other resources that could help you find the energy to make this Thursday one to remember.
Related: Ways to Find Motivation For Work
16. “Happy Thursday! P.S. It’s almost Friday.” – Thursday Saying
17. “The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude!” – Anonymous
18. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan
19. “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
20. “Action will destroy your procrastination.” – Og Mandino
21. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
23. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis
24. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous
25. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
26. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
27. “Nothing screws up your Friday like realizing it’s only Thursday.” – Anonymous
28. “I see a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train!” – Mariah Carey
29. “Start your Thursday with an attitude of optimism. It’s going to be a good day!” – Kate Summers
30. “Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.” – Thursday Quote
31. “Remember no matter how fast you run, you can’t be the winner if you don’t finish.” – Israelmore Ayivor
32. “The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.” – Helen Keller
33. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
34. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt
35. “Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you’ll still ‘beat the pack.” – Gerald R. Ford
36. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard
37. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
38. “You are what you do, not what you say you do.” – Carl Jung
39. “The extra energy required to make another effort… is the secret of winning.” – Denis Waitley
40. “Starting strong is good. Finishing strong is epic.” – Robin Sharma
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41. “If you can say the word good, guess what? It means you’re still alive, it means you’re still breathing, and if you’re still breathing, well then hell, you still got some fight left in you. So get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, reengage, and go out on the attack.” – Jocko WillinkGet up. Dust off. Reload.” – Jocko Willink
42. “Dream big, start small, but most of all start.” – Simon Sinek
43. “I can guarantee you will never achieve anything greater than your greatest aspiration.” – Dan Peña
44. “Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?” – David Goggins
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Final Thoughts
There you have it, a handful of quotes to inspire you this Thursday, as well as access to a few additional resources for finding motivation for the end of your week. We hope you found at least a little bit of motivation so you can finish the week strong.
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Achieving what we want in life is rarely a walk in the park. In fact, for most people it is a struggle. It’s a struggle that we either embrace or turn away from. And more often than not, those who choose to embrace the struggle turn to motivational quotes for the inspiration needed to surmount their challenges. In short, quotes motivate us, and there is science to back this up.[1] It is for this reason, that we decided to publish these 365 motivational quotes.
“Nurture Your Mind With Great Thoughts, For You Will Never Go Any Higher Than You Think.”
Our hope is that they will not only get you through the tough times, but help you navigate and surmount the daily challenges and discouragement that would keep you from the success you seek. So, if you’re ready to nurture your mind with 365 quotes for daily motivation, quotes that will push you every day of the week until your dreams and your reality become one, let’s get to it:
365 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR DAILY SUCCESS
1. “What great thing would you attempt, if you knew you could not fail.” – Robert H. Schuller
2. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban
3. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
4. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Wesley Snipes
5. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale
6. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
7. “Act as if what you do makes a difference.” IT DOES.” – William James
8. “Always take another step. If this is to no avail take another, and yet another. One step at a time is not too difficult.” – Og Mandino
9. “If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
11. “Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.” – Brian Tracy
12. “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman
13. “Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn’t find the guts to do.” – Seth Godin
14. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln
15. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – Babe Ruth
16. “Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.” – Anonymous
17. “The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.” – James Allen
19. “If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.” – Lao Tzu
20. “The key to success is failure.” – Michael Jordan
21. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
22. “Plough deep while sluggards sleep.” – Benjamin Franklin
23. “Work hard in silence and let success be your noise.” – Anonymous
24. “Don’t stop until you’re proud.” – Anonymous
25. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
26. “If it’s important, you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Ryan Blair
27. “Men of action are favored by the goddess of good luck.” – George S. Clason
28. “A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” – John Burroughs
29. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
30. “If you believe you can do a thing, you can do it.” – Claude M. Bristol
31. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
32. “Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.” – James Allen
33. “Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is, am I progressing?” – Robin Sharma
34. “There’s not a person on my team in 16 years that has consistently beat me to the ball every play. That ain’t got anything to do with talent, that’s just got everything to do with effort, and nothing else.” – Ray Lewis
35. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levonson
36. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as a punishment.
And that’s the difference.” – Lou Holtz
37. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Anonymous
38. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
39. “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” – Theodore Roosevelt
40. “In this world you only get what you grab for.” – Giovanni Boccaccio
41. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George A. Sheehan
42. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
43. “If you have everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
44. “Do the work. Everyone wants to be successful, but nobody wants to do the work.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
45. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
46. “Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
47. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
48. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
49. “All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.” – Anonymous
50. “Your dreams are on the other side of your grit.” – Anonymous
51. “Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
52. “Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.” – Henry Van Dyke
53. “What you exhibit outwardly, you are inwardly.” – Claude M. Bristol
54. “If you continue to thin the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” – Kevin Trudeau
55. “They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.” – Swami Venkatesananda
56. “Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, they are the things that don’t let you sleep.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
57. “I CAN is 100 times more important that IQ.” – Anonymous
58. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
59. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
60. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
61. Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
62. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Till your good is better and your better is best.'” – St. Jerome
63. “Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” – Zig Ziglar
64. “How long should you try? Until.” – Jim Rohn
65. “The view is better when it is earned.” – Anonymous
66. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
67. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
68. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton
69. “Surround yourself with people who are only going to lift you higher.” – Anonymous
70. “Comfort is the enemy of progress.” – P.T. Barnum
71. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
72. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
73. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
74. “Greatness is succeeding at what you intend to do.” – Dr. Joe Vitale
75. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
76. “Work your ass off. There is no magic pill.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
77. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
78. “Success is not for the lazy.” – Anonymous
79. “All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.” – Steven Spielberg
80. “If you don’t play to win, don’t play at all.” – Tom Brady
81. “You must tell yourself; “No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’M GOING TO MAKE IT!'” – Les Brown
82. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.” – Anonymous
83. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T.S. Eliot
84. “I hated ever minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
85. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw
86. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
87. “Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.” – John C. Maxwell
88. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
89. “The secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides
90. “It was desire that brought progress to the world.” – Claude M. Bristol
91. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
92. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
93. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
94. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
95. “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
96. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola
97. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
98. “Don’t you dare let their laughter extinguish your ambition.” – J.K. Rowling
99. “Continuous Effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
100. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
101. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
102. “In any given moment, we have two options: To step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
103. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
104. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
105. “You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.” – Muhammad Ali
106. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
107. “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.” – Anonymous
108. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” – Anonymous
109. “Always discover your vision and the rest will follow.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
110. “You have to think big to be big.” – Claude M. Bristol
111. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there
every single night.” – Michael Jordan
112. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing
the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
113. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
114. “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” – Jose Ortega y Gassett
115. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
116. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
117. “A person without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.” – Thomas Carlyle
118. “Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what’s given to you on a plate.” – Amy Winehouse
119. “To anyone who is struggling early in the morning or late at night in pursuit of your dream, struggles that many will never see, and to any leaders out there, who believe in someone who does not yet believe in themselves, keep going. Keep going, because WILL always finds a WAY.” – Tom Brady
120. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” – Muhammad Ali
121. “Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.” – Tony Robbins
122. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength
of the effort is the measure of the result.” – James Allen
123. “Most successful people are the most successful people because they’ve failed more than anyone else.” – Tony Robbins
124. “You deserve what your actions earned, or haven’t earned.” – M.J. Demarco
125. “If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.” – P.T. Barnum
126. “A lot of people say they want to be great, but they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness.” – Kobe Bryant
127. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition they overcame to reach their goals.” – D. Height
128. “There are simply no limits for a person who accepts no limits.” – Robin Sharma
129. “I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.” – Og Mandino
130. “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
131. “There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.” – Mark Burnett
132. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
133. “We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.” – Steven Pressfield
134. “I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
135. “One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.” – Hellen Keller
136. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
137. “Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill
138. “It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.” – Robert Greene
139. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” – Napoleon Hill
140. “To live is to learn, to strive is to become.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
141. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
142. “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.” – Thomas Jefferson
143. “The only man who doesn’t make mistakes is the man who never does anything.” – Theodore Roosevelt
144. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
145. “The devil whispers, “You can’t withstand the storm.” The Warrior replied, “I am the storm.” – Anonymous
146. “To win you’ve got to stay in the game.” – Claude M. Bristol
147. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki
148. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer
149. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life – and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
150. “Tough time don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
151. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
152. “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.” – Vince Lombardi
153. “Valor grows by daring; fear by holding back.” – Publilius Syrus
154. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
155. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.” – Earl Nightingale
156. “Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” – Mahatma Gandhi
157. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
158. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott
159. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
160. “If you want to have more, you must become more.” – Jim Rohn
161. “It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance,
sweeps away all obstacles.” – Claude M. Bristol
162. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
163. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
164. “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever
achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
165. “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest; we have to be more disciplined
than the rest.” – Warren Buffett
166. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If
you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and
get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
167. “People are rewarded in public for what they’ve practiced for years in private.” – Tony Robbins
168. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
169. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.” – John C. Maxwell
170. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
171. “I planned my success, I knew it was going to happen.” – Erykah Badu
172. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
173. “If you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip?” – Eminem
174. “Effort is grossly underrated.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
175. “I knew the one thing I might regret was not ever having tried.” – Jeff Bezos
176. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
177. “He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.” – Spartan Creed
178. “You can, end of story.” – Ray Lewis
179. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
180. “The harder you work, the harder it is for you to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi
181. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
182. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca
183. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
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184. “When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.” – Albert Einstein
185. “It’s never crowded along the extra mile.” – Wayne Dyer
186. “Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” – Lowell Thomas
187. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” – Theodore Roosevelt
188. “No one ever defeated a resolute will. Even death stands still before such a will.” – Claude M. Bristol
189. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
190. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
191. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not within it.” – Henry Ford
192. “Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.” – Robin Sharma
193. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
194. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
195. “Real lions like to hunt! They like the process just as much as they love the prize.” – Eric Thomas
196. “Inactivity is retrogression.” – John McDonald
197. “When the end comes for you, let if find you conquering a new mountain not sliding down an old one.” – Jim Rohn
198. “The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
199. “Fate loves the fearless.” – James Russell Lowell
200. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
201. “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” – Tacitus
202. “There are two mistakes one can make along the way to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
203. “What we do now echoes in eternity.” – Marcus Aurelius
204. “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the
heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls
205. “To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
206. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy
207. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” – Brandon Sanderson
208. “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
209. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
210. “Aim for the highest.” – Andrew Carnegie
211. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Elenor Roosevelt
212. “You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland
213. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil
214. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
215. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells
216. “Set you goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
217. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
218. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
219. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
220. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.
221. “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” – Dave Weinbaum
222. “Persistence. The only thing that will piss-off failure enough for it to get the fu** out of the way of your success. PERSIST.” – The Ultimate Warrior
223. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
224. “A little more persistence a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless
failure may turn into a glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
225. “If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” – Michael Jordan
226. “Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Dan Kennedy
227. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
228. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o
229. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Opra Winfrey
230. “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses defeat.” – Anonymous
231. “A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” – Anonymous
232. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar
233. “If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success.” – Richard Branson
234. “The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.” – James Clear
235. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
236. “What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
237. “Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” – Theodore Roosevelt
238. “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of
the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
239. “Success in anything will always come down to this: Focus & Effort, and
we control both of them.” – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
240. “I don’t count my sit-ups, I only start counting when it starts hurting, when
I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, cause that’s when it really counts.” – Muhammad Ali
241. “It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the
arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.” – Harvey Mackay
242. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing
heart.” – R.G. Ingersoll
243. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
244. “He who seeks rest finds boredom….He who seeks work finds rest.” – Anonymous
245. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
246. “The man who succeeds is a man who has withstood the tests of time, trials,
and has made every effort count.” – Hermann J. Steinherr
247. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale
248. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.” – Les Brown
249. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes
an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” – Jesse Owens
250. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
251. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
252. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers
253. “To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.” – Anna Pavlova
254. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins – not through strength, but through persistence.” – Buddha
255. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” – Winston Churchill
256. “A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.” – Georges Clemenceau
257. “Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” – David McCullough Jr.
258. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
259. “Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.” – Napoleon Hill
260. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
261. “Anything is possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J.K. Rowling
262. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
263. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” – Bertrand Russell
264. “Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
265. “What you believe yourself to be, you are.” – Claude M. Bristol
266. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
267. “To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
268. “Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.” – Karl Wallenda
269. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – T. Scott Mcleod
270. “Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.” – Charles de Gaul
271. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer
272. “Be Fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Anonymous
273. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
274. “The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.” – Dr. Idel Dreimer
275. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
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276. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
277. “To be successful we must do things that unsuccessful people do not want
to do. Those things require levels of courage.” – R. Harpe
278. “He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
279. “The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift that a human being could offer to others.” – Ayn Rand
280. “Where I excel, is ridiculous, sickening, work-ethic!” – Will Smith
281. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot
282. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot: But make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague
283. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible.” – Audrey Hepburn
284. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
285. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
286. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
287. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decision.” – Stephen Covey
288. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
289. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
290. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
291. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
292. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
293. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
294. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
295. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
296. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
297. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
298. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
299. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
300. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
301. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
302. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
303. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker
304. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
305. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
306. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
307. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
308. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
309. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don’t give up.” – Chuck Yeager
310. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
311. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
312. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Harry F. Banks
313. “The world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
314. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” – Dalai Lama
315. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
317. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
316. “Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.” – Anonymous
318. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
319. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be
done at all.” – Peter Drucker
320. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
321. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in” – Bill Bradley
322. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
323. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
324. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
325. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you
haven’t planted.” – David Bly
326. “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” – Anonymous
327. “I am grinding while your sleeping.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
328. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in
life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
329. “Criticism is the price of Ambition.” – Robin Sharma
330. “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
331. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Bo Bennett
332. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
333. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard
work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas Edison
334. “Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.” – Baltasar Gracian
335. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
336. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
337. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho
338. “You can never achieve more than you aspire to.” – Al Ries
339. “Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee
340. “Every master was once a disaster.” – T. Harv Eker
341. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” – Theodore Roosevelt
342. “Nothing is worth more than this day.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
343. “When people don’t believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.” – Peirce Brosnan
344. “Ordinary is easy. Extra-ordinary is what will separate you from the crowd.” – Darren Hardy
345. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar
346. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
347. “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
348. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
349. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” – Neil Armstrong
350. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcom Forbes
351. “Paralyze resistance with persistence.” – Woody Hayes
352. “Winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardi
353. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” – Tobias Wolff
354. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
355. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
356. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” – Japanese Proverb
357. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not:
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.” – Calvin Coolidge
358. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billy Jean King
359. “As long as there’s breath in You–Persist! – Bernard Kelvin Clive
360. “Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who just won’t quit.” – Rudy
361. “Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Ray Kroc
362. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
363. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
364. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Henry Ford
365. “What most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible
power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of
discouragement.” – Napoleon Hill
Bonus Motivational Quote
Bonus Quote: Sometimes, you just need to end things with a bang. And we believe, this last of the 365 motivational quotes for success is that bang. So, heed the late great Steve Job’s wisdom as the grand finale of these 365 quotes:
“If You Haven’t Found It Yet, Keep Looking.”
– steve jobs –
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Final Thoughts on These 365 Motivational Quotes
There you have it, the best of the best daily motivational quotes for success. We’ve done our fair share of research to publish what amounts to the best daily motivational quotes on the web, and we sincerely believe this list is it. Please consider sharing it with someone who you think they can help, and bookmarking it so you can use the motivation when you need it most.
“People Often Say That Motivation Doesn’t Last. Well, Neither Does Bathing, That’s Why We Recommend It Daily.”
– Zig Ziglar –
With that being said, we hope you found value in these quotes, and more importantly, we hope they both inspire and motivate you to keep pressing forward towards your dreams and goals.
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