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200+ Motivational Quotes To Inspire You in 2025

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Let’s keep the streak going. Here 365 inspirational quotes for 2025:

 

Wednesday January 1, 2025
“Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul.”
— Sir Terry Waite

 

Thursday January 2, 2025
“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.”
— John Holt

Friday January 3, 2025
“It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t.”
—Ricky Gervais

Saturday January 4, 2025
“The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.”
— Thomas Merton

Sunday January 5, 2025
“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
— Michael Hart

Monday January 6, 2025
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear

Tuesday January 7, 2025
“You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.”
—Pope Francis

Wednesday January 8, 2025
“I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it, and tomorrow as the moon sees it.”
—Hannah Hoch

Thursday January 9, 2025
“Write this down, young man. Life has been extremely, I say extremely, kind.”
— Margaret Gorman

Friday January 10, 2025
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

Saturday January 11, 2025
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday January 12, 2025
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
—Sydney J. Harris

Monday January 13, 2025
“If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed.”
—Mary Barra

Tuesday January 14, 2025
“Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.”
— Valentina Tereshkova

Wednesday January 15, 2025
“Your messaging should convey, ‘Here’s why you would be so lucky if you got me,’ instead of ‘I really wanted it,’ which we all tend to do.”
—Barbara Corcoran

Thursday January 16, 2025
“I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true
— hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”
—Ray Bradbury

Friday January 17, 2025
“All medicine is like that. It came from someone who dared.”
— Dr. William DeVries

Saturday January 18, 2025
“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.”
— Lyndon Johnson

Sunday January 19, 2025
“I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.”
— Eddie Vedder

Monday January 20, 2025
“It was the first evidence to me that we’d changed the world.”
— John Shepherd-Barron

Tuesday January 21, 2025
“The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.”
—Octavia Spencer

Wednesday January 22, 2025
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
— Richard Bach

Thursday January 23, 2025
“It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.”
— Michael Che

Friday January 24, 2025
“The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it.”
— Halle Berry

Saturday January 25, 2025
“Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
— Tony Robbins

Sunday January 26, 2025
“I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps … I’m the first Simone Biles.”
—Simone Biles

Monday January 27, 2025
“My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me”
— Diego Maradona

Tuesday January 28, 2025
“You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.”
—Matt Drudge

Wednesday January 29, 2025
“You are never too good for anything. Always be willing to do everything.”
— Thomas Parkinson

Thursday January 30, 2025
“Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody’s job and don’t just settle.”
—Michael B. Jordan

Friday January 31, 2025
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
— Roald Dahl

Saturday February 1, 2025
“There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

Sunday February 2, 2025
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
—Ralph Nader

Monday February 3, 2025
“You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough”
— Lionel Messi

Tuesday February 4, 2025
“God works a miracle!
— William Bradford

Wednesday February 5, 2025
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Confucius

Thursday February 6, 2025
“To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.”
— Roger Ebert

Friday February 7, 2025
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
—Sun Tzu

Saturday February 8, 2025
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
— Isaac Asimov

Sunday February 9, 2025
“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.”
—Archimedes

Monday February 10, 2025
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou

Tuesday February 11, 2025
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
—Alexander the Great

Wednesday February 12, 2025
“We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation.”
—Bill Murray

Thursday February 13, 2025
“Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.”
—Charlie Kaufman

Friday February 14, 2025
“This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day.”
—Ed Bastian

Saturday February 15, 2025
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”
— Shigeru Miyamoto

Sunday February 16, 2025
“It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that.”
—Stephen Colbert

Monday February 17, 2025
“I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.”
— Reese Witherspoon

Tuesday February 18, 2025
“Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.”
— James Taylor

Wednesday February 19, 2025
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein

Thursday February 20, 2025
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
— David Bowie

Friday February 21, 2025
“If you can’t fail, you can never get better.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch

Saturday February 22, 2025
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
—Sally Field

Sunday February 23, 2025
“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Monday February 24, 2025
“I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures.”
— Louis Daguerre

Tuesday February 25, 2025
“It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved.”
— Jennifer Lawrence

Wednesday February 26, 2025
“You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.”
— Galileo Galilei

Thursday February 27, 2025
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
—Euripides

Friday February 28, 2025
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.”
— Steve Wozniak

Saturday March 1, 2025
“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
—Henry Ward Beecher

Sunday March 2, 2025
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
—Gilbert K. Chesterton

Monday March 3, 2025
“The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”
— Pope Benedict XVI

Tuesday March 4, 2025
“Memory is original events combined with every other time you’ve remembered that event. This is why therapy’s helpful.”
—Becky Kennedy

Wednesday March 5, 2025
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
— Milton Berle

Thursday March 6, 2025
“It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.”
— Al Pacino

Friday March 7, 2025
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
—Charles Darwin

Saturday March 8, 2025
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
—Ingrid Bergman

Sunday March 9, 2025
“You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.”
—Josephine Baker

Monday March 10, 2025
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
— Anonymous

Tuesday March 11, 2025
“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
— Aristotle

Wednesday March 12, 2025
“Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently.”
— Sara Blakely

Thursday March 13, 2025
“An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better.”
—Clayton Christensen

Friday March 14, 2025
“Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.”
— Myrtle Aydelotte

Saturday March 15, 2025
“It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things.”
—Sandra Boynton

Sunday March 16, 2025
“It was the ultimate dream. But the idea of a young black American like me owning a Cadillac? It seemed too far-fetched.”
— Dick Gidron

Monday March 17, 2025
“You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.”
— Ruben Dario

Tuesday March 18, 2025
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
—Robin Sharma

Wednesday March 19, 2025
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
— Frederick Douglas

Thursday March 20, 2025
“Think about me every now and then, old friend.”
— John Lennon

Friday March 21, 2025
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.”
— Marcel Proust

Saturday March 22, 2025
“There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules.”
—Shonda Rhimes

Sunday March 23, 2025
“I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.”
—Joseph Pulitzer

Monday March 24, 2025
“Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”
— Sylvester Stalone

Tuesday March 25, 2025
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”
— Wayne Dyer

Wednesday March 26, 2025
“If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.”
— Vince Gilligan

Thursday March 27, 2025
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
— William Butler Yeats

Friday March 28, 2025
“Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.”
— Ronald McNair

Saturday March 29, 2025
“Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty.”
—Various

Sunday March 30, 2025
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

Monday March 31, 2025
“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.”
—bell hooks

Tuesday April 1, 2025
“Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage”
—Matt Damon

Wednesday April 2, 2025
“Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.”
—Satya Nadella

Thursday April 3, 2025
“The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now.”
—Zig Ziglar

Friday April 4, 2025
“If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.”
—Gary Vaynerchuk

Saturday April 5, 2025
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
—Cormac McCarthy

Sunday April 6, 2025
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
—Dwight Eisenhower

Monday April 7, 2025
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
—Tom Hanks

Tuesday April 8, 2025
“Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.”
—Nicole Kidman

Wednesday April 9, 2025
“Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?’”
—Joel Willis

Thursday April 10, 2025
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
—Marie Curie

Friday April 11, 2025
“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.”
—Lech Walesa

Saturday April 12, 2025
“It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.”
—Jonah Hill

Sunday April 13, 2025
“I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.”
— Brad Pitt

Monday April 14, 2025
“It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.”
—Jyoti Arora

Tuesday April 15, 2025
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.”
—Kahlil Gibran

Wednesday April 16, 2025
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
— Benjamin Franklin

Thursday April 17, 2025
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
— Thomas Huxley

Friday April 18, 2025
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
— Gautama Buddha

Saturday April 19, 2025
“It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.”
— Katarina Witt

Sunday April 20, 2025
“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.”
— Colin Firth

Monday April 21, 2025
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
—Janet Dailey

Tuesday April 22, 2025
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
—Mario Andretti

Wednesday April 23, 2025
“An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.”
— Indra Nooyi

Thursday April 24, 2025
“What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.”
—Ovid

Friday April 25, 2025
“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”
— Charlie Chaplin

Saturday April 26, 2025
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
— Drew Houston

Sunday April 27, 2025
“A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.”
— Chuck Norris

Monday April 28, 2025
“I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.”
—Christian Bale

Tuesday April 29, 2025
“Success … is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.”
— Susana Martinez

Wednesday April 30, 2025
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life
— and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
—Georgia O’Keeffe

Thursday May 1, 2025
“I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.”
— Kenny G

Friday May 2, 2025
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
— African proverb

Saturday May 3, 2025
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright

Sunday May 4, 2025
“I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.”
—Jimmy Stewart

Monday May 5, 2025
“If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy.”
— Gladys Knight

Tuesday May 6, 2025
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”
—R. Brault

Wednesday May 7, 2025
“There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate, when a particular course of action just feels right. And, interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable.”
—Tim Cook

Thursday May 8, 2025
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Friday May 9, 2025
“You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.”
— Larry Page

Saturday May 10, 2025
“It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 a.m. when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas.”
—Marvin Hagler

Sunday May 11, 2025
“There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity.”
— Douglas MacArthur

Monday May 12, 2025
“Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.”
—Margot Robbie

Tuesday May 13, 2025
“The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.”
— Kevin Kline

Wednesday May 14, 2025
“When we are no longer able to change a situation
— we are challenged to change ourselves.”
—Viktor E. Frankl

Thursday May 15, 2025
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
— Leo Buscaglia

Friday May 16, 2025
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan

Saturday May 17, 2025
“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.”
— Brian Chesky

Sunday May 18, 2025
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
— Willie Nelson

Monday May 19, 2025
“Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.”
— Quentin Tarantino

Tuesday May 20, 2025
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses

Wednesday May 21, 2025
“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”
— Nathaniel Branden

Thursday May 22, 2025
“It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.”
— Danny Boyle

Friday May 23, 2025
“Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.”
—Kieran Culkin

Saturday May 24, 2025
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
—Frederick Douglass

Sunday May 25, 2025
“You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy.”
—Selena Gomez

Monday May 26, 2025
“Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie.”
—Idris Elba

Tuesday May 27, 2025
“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.”
—Diana Ross

Wednesday May 28, 2025
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent.”
—Bob Dylan

Thursday May 29, 2025
“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
—Kevin Hart

Friday May 30, 2025
“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”
— Andrew Carnegie

Saturday May 31, 2025
“Life is short, and the world is wide.”
— Simon Raven

Sunday June 1, 2025
“I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.”
—Ida B. Wells

Monday June 2, 2025
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
—Edith Wharton

Tuesday June 3, 2025
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
— Satchel Paige

Wednesday June 4, 2025
“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
—Josh James

Thursday June 5, 2025
“We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand.”
—MacKenzie Scott

Friday June 6, 2025
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy

Saturday June 7, 2025
“Economics is like the Dutch language. I’m told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.”
—John Oliver

Sunday June 8, 2025
“Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.”
— Kate Winslet

Monday June 9, 2025
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
—Brad Meltzer

Tuesday June 10, 2025
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
— George Carlin

Wednesday June 11, 2025
“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
— Doug Larson

Thursday June 12, 2025
“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.”
—Randall Munroe

Friday June 13, 2025
“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”
— Taylor Swift

Saturday June 14, 2025
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
—Judy Garland

Sunday June 15, 2025
“The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves.”
— Swami Vivekananda

Monday June 16, 2025
“The one thing you’re most reluctant to tell. That’s where the comedy is.”
— Mike Birbiglia

Tuesday June 17, 2025
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”
— Jennifer Lopez

Wednesday June 18, 2025
“Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.”
—Richard Rohr

Thursday June 19, 2025
“Great artists steal’ is … about finding inspiration in the work of others, then using it as a starting point for original creative output.”
— Adam J. Kurtz

Friday June 20, 2025
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
—Muhammad Ali

Saturday June 21, 2025
“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”
— Henry David Thoreau

Sunday June 22, 2025
“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
—Marcus Aurelius

Monday June 23, 2025
“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.”
—Joan Didion

Tuesday June 24, 2025
“Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life.”
—Anthony Moore

Wednesday June 25, 2025
“I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us.”
—Serena Williams

Thursday June 26, 2025
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.”
— Charles Swindoll

Friday June 27, 2025
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
— David Brinkley

Saturday June 28, 2025
“I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”
—Ralph Abernathy

Sunday June 29, 2025
“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?”
—Elizabeth Gilbert

Monday June 30, 2025
“Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count.”
— Ken Hubbard

 
 

Tuesday July 1, 2025
“I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.”
— Mike Rowe

Wednesday July 2, 2025
“I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.”
—Audie Murphy

Thursday July 3, 2025
“Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.”
— Mark Cuban

Friday July 4, 2025
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
—General George S. Patton

Saturday July 5, 2025
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
— Robin Williams

Sunday July 6, 2025
“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Monday July 7, 2025
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
—Stephen Covey

Tuesday July 8, 2025
“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”
— John F. Kennedy

Wednesday July 9, 2025
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
— Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

Thursday July 10, 2025
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
—Stephen Sondheim

Friday July 11, 2025
“Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind.”
—Plato

Saturday July 12, 2025
“Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.”
—Cesar Chavez

Sunday July 13, 2025
“Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none.”
— John the Baptist

Monday July 14, 2025
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Sir Winston Churchill

Tuesday July 15, 2025
“What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.”
—James Dyson

Wednesday July 16, 2025
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”
—Caroline Myss

Thursday July 17, 2025
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”
—Julia Child

Friday July 18, 2025
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
— Dale Carnegie

Saturday July 19, 2025
“God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us.”
— Saint Peter

Sunday July 20, 2025
“What gets celebrated gets replicated.”
— Bradley Cooper

Monday July 21, 2025
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay

Tuesday July 22, 2025
“Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
—Unknown original

Wednesday July 23, 2025
“If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”
— Lorne Michaels

Thursday July 24, 2025
“Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.”
— Jason Sudeikis

Friday July 25, 2025
“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.”
— Michaelengo

Saturday July 26, 2025
“If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.”
—Jude Law

Sunday July 27, 2025
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Anonymous

Monday July 28, 2025
“Bridge the age gap. For younger people, find a way to spend time with older people. For the more silver-haired among us, I’m telling you: Find a few things the young kids are into — music, tech, sports — and check them out.”
—Mike Erwin

Tuesday July 29, 2025
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
—Mary Louise Alcott

Wednesday July 30, 2025
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
— Margaret Fuller

Thursday July 31, 2025
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
—Robert Frost

Friday August 1, 2025
“I will take the subway and look at certain women and think ‘God, that woman’s story will never be told. How come that lady doesn’t get a movie about her?’
— Natasha Lyonne

Saturday August 2, 2025
“If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results.”
— Jack Dixon

Sunday August 3, 2025
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
— Bruce Lee

Monday August 4, 2025
“Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.”
— Ray Ozzie

Tuesday August 5, 2025
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
— Alexander Graham Bell

Wednesday August 6, 2025
“The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.”
— Jack Dorsey

Thursday August 7, 2025
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
—H.G. Wells

Friday August 8, 2025
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois

Saturday August 9, 2025
“It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say: If this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away.”
— Douglas Englebart

Sunday August 10, 2025
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair

Monday August 11, 2025
“Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell.”
—Carrie Fisher

Tuesday August 12, 2025
“I’ve got to give props to the Jesuit priests.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Wednesday August 13, 2025
“If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it!
— Eleanor Hodgman Porter

Thursday August 14, 2025
“That’s the best part of the whole thing, is the people that we’ve met along the way. We’ve met some wonderful, wonderful people and we wouldn’t have otherwise.”
— Pearl Dion

Friday August 15, 2025
“Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.”
— Tim Ferriss

Saturday August 16, 2025
“Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.”
— George Clooney

Sunday August 17, 2025
“My soul is that of a drummer…. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.”
— Ringo Starr

Monday August 18, 2025
“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”
— Ted Williams

Tuesday August 19, 2025
“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
— Nelson Mandela

Wednesday August 20, 2025
“Good luck has its storms
— George Lucas

Thursday August 21, 2025
“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying.”
— Mason Cooley

Friday August 22, 2025
“No failure means no risk, which means nothing new”
—Richard Branson

Saturday August 23, 2025
“I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started.”
—Wendy Kopp

Sunday August 24, 2025
“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”
—Leonardo da Vinci

Monday August 25, 2025
“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
—Caterina Fake

Tuesday August 26, 2025
“I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.”
—William Shatner

Wednesday August 27, 2025
“Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller

Thursday August 28, 2025
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
— Vera Nazarian

Friday August 29, 2025
“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
—Claude Monet

Saturday August 30, 2025
“I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.”
—Daniel Day-Lewis

Sunday August 31, 2025
“I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work.”
—Peter Dinklage

Monday September 1, 2025
“Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet”
—Dr. Dre

Tuesday September 2, 2025
“Happiness is an inside job.”
— Anonymous

Wednesday September 3, 2025
“I was literally just doing my job.”
— Stanislav Petrov

Thursday September 4, 2025
“All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.”
— Steven Spielberg

Friday September 5, 2025
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one.”
— Abraham Lincoln

Saturday September 6, 2025
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.”
—Gilda Radner

Sunday September 7, 2025
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”
— Mark Twain

Monday September 8, 2025
“Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.”
— Louis Mann

Tuesday September 9, 2025
“You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.”
— Keira Knightley

Wednesday September 10, 2025
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Pablo Picasso

Thursday September 11, 2025
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— Les Brown

Friday September 12, 2025
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
—Michael Porter

Saturday September 13, 2025
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
— Louis Pasteur

Sunday September 14, 2025
“Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back.”
— Herb Kelleher

Monday September 15, 2025
“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”
— Pele

Tuesday September 16, 2025
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
—Will Arnett

Wednesday September 17, 2025
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
—William Morris

Thursday September 18, 2025
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh

Friday September 19, 2025
“The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible”
—Mike Horn

Saturday September 20, 2025
“Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself.”
—Katelyn S. Irons

Sunday September 21, 2025
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”
— Peter Drucker

Monday September 22, 2025
“Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.”
— Terry Crews

Tuesday September 23, 2025
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
— Steve Martin

Wednesday September 24, 2025
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
— Martin Luther King

Thursday September 25, 2025
“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
—Eric Ries

Friday September 26, 2025
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
— Mother Teresa

Saturday September 27, 2025
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
—Chuck Palahniuk

Sunday September 28, 2025
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
— Seth Godin

Monday September 29, 2025
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll

Tuesday September 30, 2025
“It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.”
— Willie Mays

Wednesday October 1, 2025
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs

Thursday October 2, 2025
“Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.”
—Salvador Dali

Friday October 3, 2025
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
—Alice Walker

Saturday October 4, 2025
“The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy.”
— President Reagan

Sunday October 5, 2025
“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
—Stephen Hawking

Monday October 6, 2025
“People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent.”
— Cecily Strong

Tuesday October 7, 2025
“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
— Vince Lombardi

Wednesday October 8, 2025
“The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.”
—Meryl Streep

Thursday October 9, 2025
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
— Brian Tracy

Friday October 10, 2025
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
— George Bernard Shaw

Saturday October 11, 2025
“My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.”
—Michael K. Williams

Sunday October 12, 2025
“If you’re ever thinking, Oh, but I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don’t you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?”
— Maria Bamford

Monday October 13, 2025
“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”
—Paulo Coelho

Tuesday October 14, 2025
“[T]he world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”
—Bono

Wednesday October 15, 2025
“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.”
— Oscar Wilde

Thursday October 16, 2025
“Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten
— it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.”
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Friday October 17, 2025
“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”
— Arnold Palmer

Saturday October 18, 2025
“Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.”
— Joe Frazier

Sunday October 19, 2025
“The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent.”
— Rob Kalin

Monday October 20, 2025
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
— Richard L. Evans

Tuesday October 21, 2025
“Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.”
— Ray Lewis

Wednesday October 22, 2025
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
—Howard Schultz

Thursday October 23, 2025
“Next time you think you are important, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.”
—Will Rogers

Friday October 24, 2025
“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.”
— Harlan Sanders

Saturday October 25, 2025
“If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”
—James Goldsmith

Sunday October 26, 2025
“Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth.”
— Mike Tyson

Monday October 27, 2025
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan

Tuesday October 28, 2025
“One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.”
— George “Babe” Ruth

Wednesday October 29, 2025
“Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it.”
—Beret Guidera

Thursday October 30, 2025
“You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect.”
—Rosalind Brewer

Friday October 31, 2025
“Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.”
— Robert Goddard

Saturday November 1, 2025
“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”
— Grace Hansen

Sunday November 2, 2025
“When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative.”
— Chris Rock

Monday November 3, 2025
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
— William Bruce Cameron

Tuesday November 4, 2025
“We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive.”
—Biz Markie

Wednesday November 5, 2025
“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
— Isaac Newton

Thursday November 6, 2025
“It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.”
— Mark Ruffalo

Friday November 7, 2025
“Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it.”
— Billie Jean King

Saturday November 8, 2025
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
—Louis L’Amour

Sunday November 9, 2025
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
— Bob Marley

Monday November 10, 2025
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.”
— James Cash Penny

Tuesday November 11, 2025
“I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.”
— Susan B. Anthony

Wednesday November 12, 2025
“My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.”
—Douglas Preston

Thursday November 13, 2025
“Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.”
— Ada Lovelace

Friday November 14, 2025
“When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.”
—T. Harv Eker

Saturday November 15, 2025
“You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”
— Aaron Sorkin

Sunday November 16, 2025
“You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful.”
— Lou Reed

Monday November 17, 2025
“We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom.”
—Bertrand Russell

Tuesday November 18, 2025
“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work, and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”
— Lucille Ball

Wednesday November 19, 2025
“Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”
—Denzel Washington

Thursday November 20, 2025
“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.”
— Warren Buffett

Friday November 21, 2025
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
—William Wallace

Saturday November 22, 2025
“I feel like if it’s not scaring you, you’re doing it wrong.”
—Anna Kendrick

Sunday November 23, 2025
“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.”
— Oprah Winfrey

Monday November 24, 2025
“There is no element of genius without some form of madness.”
— Leonardo DiCaprio

Tuesday November 25, 2025
“Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do.”
— Larry David

Wednesday November 26, 2025
“Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow.”
— Dylan Thomas

Thursday November 27, 2025
“To scale, do things that don’t scale.”
—Reid Hoffman

Friday November 28, 2025
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
— Jodie Foster

Saturday November 29, 2025
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh

Sunday November 30, 2025
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
— Alexander Hamilton

Monday December 1, 2025
“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
— Michael Ende

Tuesday December 2, 2025
“The big money is not in the buying and selling … but in the waiting.”
— Charlie Munger

Wednesday December 3, 2025
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thursday December 4, 2025
“Someone once said, ‘Adversity introduces a man to himself.’ For some reason, that’s scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.”
—Max Cleland

Friday December 5, 2025
“I can’t tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.”
— Phil Knight

Saturday December 6, 2025
“The lessons aren’t about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.”
—Dr. Robert Waldinger

Sunday December 7, 2025
“I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.”
— Steven Wright

Monday December 8, 2025
“The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost

Tuesday December 9, 2025
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington

Wednesday December 10, 2025
“Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. …”
—Kurt Vonnegut

Thursday December 11, 2025
“In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Friday December 12, 2025
“People think I’m an overnight success. No. It’s just that you all found me overnight.”
— Leslie Jones

Saturday December 13, 2025
“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.”
—Rosa Parks

Sunday December 14, 2025
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
—Dalai Lama

Monday December 15, 2025
“There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
—Sam Walton

Tuesday December 16, 2025
“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it.”
—Bill Murray

Wednesday December 17, 2025
“We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.”
— David Goggins

Thursday December 18, 2025
“It’s better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.”
— Edward Norton

Friday December 19, 2025
“Forget about style; worry about results.”
—Bobby Orr

Saturday December 20, 2025
“St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.”
— Alan Paton

Sunday December 21, 2025
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
—Hank Aaron

Monday December 22, 2025
“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.”
—Tyler Perry

Tuesday December 23, 2025
“The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.”
—Tommy Hilfiger

Wednesday December 24, 2025
“I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”
—Beyoncé

Thursday December 25, 2025
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
—Conan O’Brien

Friday December 26, 2025
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
— Saint Augustine

Saturday December 27, 2025
“If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.”
— Stephen Curry

Sunday December 28, 2025
“Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders.”
—Senator Mitt Romney.

Monday December 29, 2025
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
— C. S. Lewis

Tuesday December 30, 2025
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”
—Rudyard Kipling

Wednesday December 31, 2025
“This is it. This is life, the one you get.”
—Jeff Barry

 

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Deep motivational quotes

Motivational quote from Albert Einstein

  1. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” —Albert Einstein
  2. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  3. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” —Mark Twain
  4. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
  6. “It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest.” —Walter Anderson
  7. “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.” —Diane McLaren

Motivational quotes about success

Motivational quote from Winston Churchill

  1. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
  2. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville
  3. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis
  4. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau
  5. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
  6. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” —Calvin Coolidge
  7. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers
  8. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden
  9. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
  10. “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”―W. P. Kinsella

 

Motivational quotes for personal life

Motivational quote from Will Rogers

  1. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill
  2. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” —Will Rogers
  3. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” —Unknown
  4. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs
  5. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” ―Vernon Sanders Law
  6. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West
  7. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” —Tony Robbins

Motivational quotes for work

Motivational quote from Jim Rohn

  1. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” —Alexander Graham Bell
  2. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” —Jim Rohn
  3. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson
  4. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
  5. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison
  6. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” —Tony Robbins
  7. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” —Steve Jobs

 

Motivational quotes for women

Arlan Hamilton motivational quote for women

  1. “Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.” —Cindy Gallop
  2. “We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do.” —Arlan Hamilton
  3. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” —Oprah Winfrey
  4. “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” —Unknown
  5. “Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.” —Yulia Tymoshenko
  6. “Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” —Lady Gaga
  7. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” ― Roseanne Barr
  8. If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” ―Shirley Chisholm
  9. I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” ― Malala Yousafzai
  10. “When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.” —Diane Von Furstenberg
  11. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” —Margaret Thatcher
  12. “We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  13. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” —Madeleine Albright
  14. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  15. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” —Ayn Rand

Motivational quotes for men

Dale Carnegie motivational quote for students

  1. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” —Confucius
  2. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein
  3. “One man with courage makes a majority.” —Andrew Jackson
  4. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” —Benjamin Disraeli
  5. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” —Confucius Kongzi
  6. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” —Dale Carnegie
  7. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley
  8. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” —Epictetus

Motivational quotes for students

Nelson Mandela motivational quote for students

  1. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” —George Lorimer
  2. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
  3. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
  4. “You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” —John Graham
  5. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” —Augustine Og Mandino

Success quotes

Inspirational quote from Tiny Fey

  1. “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” —Charlie Munger
  2. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey
  3. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” —Melissa McCarthy
  4. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin
  5. “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley
  6. “I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
  7. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill
  8. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
  9. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
  10. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi
  11. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” —Walt Disney
  12. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller

Funny motivational quotes

Funny motivational quote by Zig Ziglar

  1. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” —Joe Girard
  2. “Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back.” —Dave Carolan
  3. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar
  4. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” —Unknown
  5. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” —Oscar Wilde
  6. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” —Winnie the Pooh
  7. “Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” —Tom Lehrer
  8. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” —Lily Tomlin

Team motivational quotes

Michael Jordan inspirational quote about teamwork

  1. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” —Michael Jordan
  2. “Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” —Vince Lombardi
  3. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” —Andrew Carnegie
  4. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” —Henry Ford
  5. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” —Helen Keller
  6. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” —Patrick Lencioni
  7. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” —Jean-Francois Cope

Short motivational quotes

Short motivational quote by the Dalai Lama

  1. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” —Dalai Lama
  2. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser
  3. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” —Gary Vaynerchuk
  4. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
  5. “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” —Les Brown
  6. “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” —Mark Cuban
  7. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey
  8. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden
  9. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney
  10. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

Motivational Monday quotes

Germany Kent Monday motivational quote

  1. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” —William James
  2. “One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” —Edmond Mbiaka
  3. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball
  4. “You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin.” ―Gordon B. Hinckley.
  5. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” —Marcus Aurelius
  6. “Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” —David Dweck
  7. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer
  8. “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.” —Germany Kent

Friday motivational quotes

Short motivational quote by Kate Summers

  1. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” —Kate Summers
  2. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” —S. O’ Sade
  3. “Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” —Nanea Hoffman
  4. “Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” —Byron Pulsifer
  5. “When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” —Catherine Pulsifer

Best motivational quotes to start your day

Short motivational quote by Tobias Lütke

  1. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar
  2. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso
  3. “Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” —Angela Bassett
  4. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende
  5. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy
  6. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” —Barbara Elaine Smith
  7. “If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” —Tobias Lütke

Positive quotes for motivation

Short motivational quote by Anne Lamott

  1. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott
  2. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet
  3. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler
  4. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ―A. A. Milne
  5. “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ―Martha Graham
  6. “Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried
  7. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin
  8. “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis
  9. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson
  10. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm

Daily motivational quotes

Motivational quote by Steve Jobs

  1. “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs
  2. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
  3. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain
  5. “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill
  6. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn
  7. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln
  8. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey
  9. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown
  10. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus 
  11. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” —Mary Anne Radmacher
  12. “If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen

Inspirational quotes

Motivational quote about life from Jay-Z

  1. “Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business” —Cindy Gallop
  2. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke
  3. “Worry is a misuse of imagination.” —Unknown
  4. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou
  5. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” —Edna Mode
  6. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Unknown
  7. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” —Steve Furtick
  8. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Carl Sagan
  9. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z
  10. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” —Arianna Huffington
  11. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” —Erica Jong

 

Positive quotes

Motivational quote about positivity from Henry Ford

  1. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” —Henry Ford
  2. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Confucius
  3. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” —Wayne Dyer
  4. “We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.” —Arthur Ashe
  5. “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” —Bill Gates

Encouraging quotes

Motivational quote from Wayne Dyer

  1. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” —Arlan Hamilton
  2. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” —Ariana Huffington
  3. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford
  4. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” —Wayne Dyer
  5. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” —Aristotle
  6. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
  7. “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle.” —Ross Simmonds

Motivation quotes

Motivational quote from George Addair

  1. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” —George Addair
  2. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
  3. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” —Babe Ruth
  4. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison
  5. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston
  6. “You carry the passport to your own happiness.” —Diane Von Furstenberg
  7. “Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart.” —Drake
  8. “Ideation without execution is delusion.” —Robin Sharma

Quotes about life

Quote about life from Earl Nightingale

  1. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” —Laird Hamilton
  2. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  3. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent Van Gogh
  4. “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” —Maria Edgeworth
  5. “Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” —Unknown
  6. “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Raymond Joseph Teller
  7. “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” —Paul Bryant
  8. “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” —Henry David Thoreau
  9. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale
  10. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” —Unknown

More motivating quotes

Best motivational quote from Mark Twain

  1. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain.
  2. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” —Pema Chodron
  3. “We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.” —Bruce Lee
  4. “First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.” ―Octavia Butler
  5. “The best way out is always through.” ―Robert Frost
  6. “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens
  7. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass
  8. “Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations.” ―Bill Walsh
  9. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordo
  10. “Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short.” —Paul Graham
  11. “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
  12. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas
  13. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” —Dita Von Teese
  14. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ―Cormac McCarthy

Inspirational new year quotes

Best motivational quote from Kurt Vonnegut

  1. “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” —Dr. Seuss
  2. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” —Don Cheadle
  3. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” —Leymah Gbowee
  4. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton
  5. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino
  6. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall
  7. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay
  8. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
  9. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” —Kurt Vonnegut
  10. “People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu
  11. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” —Sonia Sotomayor
  12. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” —Jennifer Lopez
  13. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King
  14. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm
  15. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan

What is motivation?

A desk with a laptop and a lightbox. The words You Got This are displayed on the lightbox.

  • Motivation can refer to a state of mind that compels you to pursue a goal.
  • Motivation also takes the form of external factors that inspire actions, such as the encouragement of a friend or an opportunity to increase your salary.
  • Motivation is vital for setting and achieving objectives, pushing through challenges, and realizing your potential.

Like an invisible force, motivation affects the things we do, say, and think. It wakes us up in the morning, fuels our dreams, and pushes us to cross the finish line. Motivation is also an essential bridge between our idea of success and the actions we take to pursue it.

There are two main types of motivation:

  • Intrinsic motivation comes from within ourselves. It’s driven by curiosity, ambition, or the satisfaction of winning. Intrinsic motivation inspires the artist who paints for the sheer love of painting, or the amateur athlete who wakes up early every morning to train.
  • Extrinsic motivation is driven by environmental factors, such as rewards or social status. Extrinsic motivation inspires the salesperson striving to win an “employee of the month” award, or the student studying hard to graduate.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking for the intrinsic motivation to start your first business, or an established-brand leader seeking the extrinsic motivation needed to withstand a market downturn, understanding what drives you can be a powerful tool for success.

Motivation is also a key factor in leadership. A motivated team is a productive team, and understanding what motivates your employees can help you create a positive and inspiring work environment.

Remember, motivation isn’t static—it ebbs and flows. Different things will motivate you at different times. The key is to stay present and continually search for new sources of inspiration.

How to motivate yourself: 6 strategies

A poster with the slogan self care isn’t selfish

Motivating yourself is a skill. And like any skill, it can be developed and improved.

Here are six strategies for inspiring yourself to take on new challenges, or focus your efforts on what really matters to you.

1. Set clear (SMART) goals

Having clear, meaningful goals transforms a vague dream into a plan you can start today. For a motivation boost, try splitting big goals into smaller, more achievable steps.

One way to break down large ambitions is to create SMART goals: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound tasks. SMART tasks give you a clear path forward and keep things moving.

2. Leverage visualization

Many successful entrepreneurs say that visualization was a helpful tool during the early days of their business. Likewise, athletes and sports psychologists often cite visualization as a key component of their training routines.

By picturing yourself achieving your goals, you can stimulate the motivation needed to make that vision a reality. In a business context, you might visualize yourself delivering a successful pitch, launching a new product, or acing a job interview.

Make your visualizations as specific and detailed as possible. By mentally rehearsing these scenarios, you’re training your brain to focus on the skills you want to develop.

3. Cultivate a positive mindset

Positivity boosts motivation. Techniques like mindfulness and meditation can help you pay more attention to the joyful and exciting elements of the challenges you encounter, rather than the difficult parts.

Research suggests that having a growth mindset, where you view challenges as opportunities for learning rather than obstacles, fosters resilience and a drive to succeed.

4. Surround yourself with inspiration

Be it inspiring quotes, books, or people, surrounding yourself with inspiration can help you maintain momentum. 

5. Prioritize wellbeing

Burnout is one of the biggest threats to motivation. When you become exhausted, you’re more likely to experience feelings of tiredness, cynicism, and detachment. Burnout can lead to a cycle of decreasing productivity.

Therefore, constructing a routine that prioritizes your work-life balance is necessary for keeping yourself energized and engaged.

Define boundaries that clearly limit your role and responsibilities at work. Also try to get regular exercise, enjoy a balanced diet, and have adequate sleep. All of these will improve your physical and mental energy levels.

6. Celebrate achievements regularly

Recognizing and celebrating the things you do, no matter how small, is an important part of respecting yourself and your impact upon the world.

Take time to honor your achievements, and you may feel inspired to keep striving toward your biggest goals.

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