Want to Motivate Your Pals? These Inspiring Messages Are Here to Help You

“I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.” —Edmund Hillary

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” –Pablo Picasso

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” –Earl Nightingale

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vidal Sassoon

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” –Les Brown

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” –Bill Gates

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” –Ralph Nader

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” –Anonymous

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” –Margaret Thatcher

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” —Sam Levenson

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” –Francis Chan

“What would you do if you weren’t afraid.” –Spencer Johnson

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” –Dale Carnegie

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.” –Washington Irving

“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” –Theodore N. Vail

“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the worthwhile things, it can be done.” –Vince Lombardi

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” –Truman Capote

“The success of our efforts depends not so much on the efforts themselves, but rather on our motive for doing them.” —Denis Waitley

“The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.” —Raphael Saadiq

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” —Vince Lombardi

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

“Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.” —Sheryl Sandberg

“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” –Jane Smiley

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” –Denis Waitley

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.” –Anatole France

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” –George Bernard Shaw

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” –Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” –Michael Jordan

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” –Diane Ackerman

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” –Dale Carnegie

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” –George Lorimer

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” –Booker T. Washington

“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” —Pauline Kael

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” —W. Clement Stone

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.

Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.

Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.

Do something today that your future self will thank you for. Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” —Les Brown

It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.

The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” —Michael Korda

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.

“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” —George Whitefield

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t wait for the opportunity. Create it.

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney

Little things make big days.

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert

“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” —Jane Smiley

“Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.” —Clayton Christensen

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stow

“There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.” —Pat Riley

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps

“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” —Kevin Ngo

“You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won’t sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.” —Jillian Michaels

Dream it. Believe it. Build it.

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation.” ?Homer Rice

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” —Peter Marshall

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.” ?B.F. Skinner

“Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.” —Damon Galgut

“When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated but have consistency in their motivation.” —Arsene Wenger

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” –Tony Robbins

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” –Robert Kiyosaki

“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

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” –Audre Lorde

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” –Gurbaksh Chahal

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” –T. Harv Eker

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” –Dale Carnegie

“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

“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” –Roger Staubach

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.” –Robert Frost

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” –Steve Jobs

“The number one reason people fail in life is that they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” –Napoleon Hill “The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, ‘I wish someone would come by and turn me on.’ What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.” —Jim Rohn

“Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” –Anonymous

“I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.” –Thomas Jefferson

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” –Napoleon Hill

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” –Steve Jobs

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not the absence of fear.” –Mark Twain

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out.” –Robert Collier

“Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” –A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” –Anonymous

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” –Albert Einstein