Motivational Quotes

Motivation isn't magic; it's a decision repeated daily. These 30 motivational quotes are built for action — short, direct lines about discipline, persistence and starting before you feel ready. Pick one, put it where you'll see it, and get moving.

All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. — Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.
Swami Vivekananda
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Swami Sivananda
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B.R. Ambedkar
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. Ambedkar
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. — Muhammad Yunus
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.
Muhammad Yunus
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. — David Ben-Gurion
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. — Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. — Chanakya
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. — Chanakya
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
Chanakya
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. — Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. — Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists.
Lao Tzu
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. — Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' — Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. — Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Plato
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. — Lee Kuan Yew
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him.
Lee Kuan Yew
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. — Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
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