The saying is true, "The pen is mightier than the sword." – words have energy and power to cast spell.
They can make or break your life. Right motivation can uplift and inspire people to handle the challenges and hardships in their lives, they can break a person slowly over time or deliver instant heartache with a simple sentence or even make them rich and successful.
But, for now, we want to talk about the good words, motivational quotes and phrases. When you're feeling down or lacking motivation, you might turn to certain motivation quotes for inspiration and feeling good.
Whether they come from your favorite author or actor, these messages may remind you to keep pushing forward and continue trying in whatever you do.
If you're looking for more, here is a compiled list of motivational quotes from throughout the decades:
#1. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
#2. Knowledge is power but only if it is used — Kevin Trudeau
#3. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing —Walt Disney
#4. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong — Ella Fitzgerald
#5. Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it." — Taylor Swift
#6. When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example — Roxane Gay
#7. Every one of your words, actions and thoughts are seeds you plant that will eventually manifest into your life as something you will have to experience — Kevin Trudeau
#8. It always seems impossible until it’s done — Nelson Mandela
#9. Nobody knows you unless you do something so incredible that will shock the world — Manish Yadav (it's me lovefindsitsway.com)
#10. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts — Winston S. Churchill
#11. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on — Robert Frost.
#12. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit. Losing and failure are also habits — Kevin Trudeau
#13. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own — Michelle Obama
#14. To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live — Dorothy West
#15. A problem is a chance for you to do your best — Duke Ellington
#16. Never complain and never explain — Benjamin Disraeli
#17. If there is no struggle, there is no progress — Frederick Douglass
#18. It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole. — Jane Fonda
#19. Impossible is just an opinion — Paulo Coelho
#20. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known — Carl Sagan
#21. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one — Dolly Parton
#22. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary — Vince Lombardi
#23. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed ― Theodore Roosevelt
#24. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time – Thomas A. Edison
#25. , “Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality ― Albert Einstein
#26. Don’t let anyone steal your dream! — Kevin Trudeau
#27. Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions ― Dalai Lama XIV
#28. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at — Stephen Hawking
#29. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever — Chinese Proverb
#30. Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader — Anonymous
#31. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot — Michael Altshuler
#32. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things ― Albert Einstein
#33. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value — Albert Einstein
#34. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you — Oprah Winfrey
#35. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better — J.K. Rowling
#36. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
#37. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work — Stephen King
#38. The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress you need discipline — Dan Waldschmidt
#39. I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life — Louise Hay
#40. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right — Henry Ford
#41. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay — Simone de Beauvoir
#42. 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
#43. Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get — Ingrid Bergman
#44. If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all — Michelangelo
#45. Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for — Jennifer Lopez
#46. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line — Lucille Ball
#47. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm ― Winston S. Churchill
#48. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." — Alice Walker
#49. Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'" — Audrey Hepburn
#50. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." — Maya Angelou
I hope you found those inspiring motivational quotes as useful as I have, I’d love to hear any that you have been inspired if yes please do not forget to share and comment below.