Every now and then you need a little extra motivation to get started on the right note, so we have put together a list of all the best motivational quotes for you to choose from. And if you’re looking for short motivational quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short motivational Quotes
“A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.” –Mahatma Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
“Every day that you open your eyes is a new day and another day to get it right.” – Jean Renee Porter
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Believe in yourself and all that you are.” – Christian D. Larson
“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Every new day begins with possibilities.” – Ronald Reagan
“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”— Kesha
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Edwin Markham
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
“Stay foolish to stay sane.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” Jean de La Fontaine
“Begin anywhere.” – John Cage
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
“Whatever you do, do with all your might.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko
“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“I think having more Saturdays sounds great.” – Michael Crews
“I’d rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right.” –Author unknown
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”— Walt Whitman
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Things don’t have to change the world to be important” – Steve Jobs
“Belief creates the actual fact.”— William James
“Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” – Nike
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” – W. P. Kinsella
“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“Never give up hope. All things are working for your good.” – Germany Kent
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
“Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” – Urijah Faber
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
“Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides
“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou
“Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle
“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” – Abraham Lincoln
“When you finally learn your self–worth… you stop giving others discounts.” – Unknown
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.”― Rachel Joyce
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
“The past is gone. Today is full of possibilities.” – Karen Casey
“Today is a new day, the first day of the rest of your life.” – Abbie Hoffman
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – Augustine of Hippo
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”- Elbert Hubbard
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” –Chinese Proverb
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
“Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” – Drake
“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”— Oprah Winfrey
“Every morning is a chance at a new day.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”— Aristotle
“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
“Open your mind. Get up off the couch. Move.” – Anthony Bourdain
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santanaya
“It’s a new day and requires new thinking.” – Nick Jonas
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” – Marge Piercy
“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” – George Weah
“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schiuller
“Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“Don’t worry about the challenges. Get excited about the rewards of crushing them.” – Hiral Nagda
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”— Malala Yousafzai
“Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif
“No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ― Josiyah Martin
“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.” – Dwight Howard
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day, with no mistakes in it yet?” – L.M. Montgomery
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”– Tony Robbins
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.”― Rachel Joyce
“If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.” – Charlie Gilkey
“Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats
“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.”- Shae Ross
“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
“You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” – Nick Maley
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”― Criss Jami
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
“I may stumble. I may fall. I may cry. But I’ll NEVER give up! Tomorrow, I rise again.” – Steve Maraboli
“Keep going. Be all in.” – Bryan Hutchinson
“Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.” – Ben Zobrist
“To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.” – Wilson Kanadi
“Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” – Tom Hopkins
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
“A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
“I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” – Harvey Specter
“The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”— Alexander the Great
“Live your dreams.” – Les Brown
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton
“Yesterday ended last night, today is a brand-new day. And it’s yours.” – Zig Ziglar
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell
“You receive from the world what you give to the world.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
“Energy and initiative count as much as talent and luck.” – Will Peters
“Every day is a new beginning, because you can’t turn the clock back.” — Mel Gibson
“Get to the point where you get allergic to average! You don’t think average!” – Eric Thomas
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” – Dorothy Bernard
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry Davis Thoreau
“Sunday is a day to clear the mind of all that has transpired the week before.” – Byron Pulsifer
“No greater gift there is, than a generous heart.” – Yoda
“Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?” – Kendrick Lamar
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” – André Gide
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
“If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.” – Paulo Coelho
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.” – Kendrick Lamar
“We need not think alike to love alike.” – Francis David
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius
“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Horace Lorimer
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins
“Spread love everywhere you go.”— Mother Teresa
“When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.” – Maxime Lagacé
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
“The most important thing is to keep going.” – Maxime Lagacé
“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.” – Lil Wayne
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anaïs Nin
“Monday is the day that opens up the week for many opportunities.” – R.K. Narayan
“We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.” – Virginia Williams
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain
“Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”– Marcus Washling
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
“No wind favors he who has no destined port.” —Montaigne
“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu
“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
“Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” –Albert Camus
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change” – Albert Einstein
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” – Doe Zantamata
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
“Keep going. Is not as difficult as you feel it is. Don’t give up.” – Brandon Sanderson
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.“ – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Emerson
“Saturday makes my day complete.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
“There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them is sufficient.” – Marilynne Robinson
“Do it Now!” – Napoleon Hill
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.“ – Helen Keller
“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”– Tim Fargo
“The best weeks start on Monday.” – Nice Peter
“All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse
“Every new day gives me ceaseless hope to reach out for my dreams.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“No great thing is created suddenly.” —Epictetus
“There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
“What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.” – Ralph Sockman
“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile, and start again.” – Unknown
“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
“Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.” – Tim Cook
“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“No guts, no story.” – Chris Brady
“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra
“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” – Kahlil Gibran
“The true vocation of man is to find his way for himself.” – Hermann Hesse
So that is it for our list of Short Motivational Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one!
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Laynni Locke
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