The Most Uplifting Motivational Quotes About life

If you need a little extra motivation today, here are 50 motivational quotes about life that may help you get through your day.

1. “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein

2. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way

3. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

4. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

5. “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grassin the beginning.” – Vincent van Gogh

6. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – William Shakespeare

7. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.” Mark Twain

8. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield

10. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett

11. “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” – Michelle Obama

12. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela

13. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

14. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy

15. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

16. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” Dale Carnegie

17. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

18. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

19. “Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.” – Denis Waitley

20. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Barbara De Angelis

21. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

22. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

23. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

25. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

26. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

27. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

28. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

29. “I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don’t even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the ‘you’ that is behind the reality of yourself.” ? Lionel Suggs

30. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively” – Bob Marley

31. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

32. “By making yourself a life-long learner you’ll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.” – Rachel Robins

33. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and enjoying it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale

34. “If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?” ? Miguel Ruiz

35. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michaelangelo

36. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma

37. “You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move.” – Eric Thomas

38. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

39. “You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.” – Mark Victor Hansen

40. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

41. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar

42. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

43. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen

44. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

45. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

46. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

47. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

48. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland

49. “Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.” – Henry James

50. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – T. Roosevelt

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Motivational quotes about life help us to feel empowered and motivated to take on whatever we may feel has been holding us back. Start your day by reading a few motivational quotes to give you a boost of inspiration and productivity. Plan that cross-country move, change careers and start tackling that personal project you’ve been putting off. If you feel like you’ve hit a roadblock, pause to read a few motivational quotes to invigorate your thirst for life. Motivational quotes are motivational for a reason: they encourage us to step outside of our comfort zone to try something new or difficult.