Most motivational quotes online were written by nobody in particular and signed with a famous name afterwards. These were not. They are the lines people actually said or wrote, which is why some of them are sharper and less comfortable than the posters suggest.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. If you do what is hard, your life will be easy.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

You become what you believe.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry Stanley Haskins · Motivational

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt · Motivational

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington · Motivational

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau · Motivational

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Your limitation — it's only your imagination.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

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

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Theodore Roosevelt · Motivational

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.

The passionate are not deterred by failure. They are challenged by it.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

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