40 Motivational Quotes To Build You Up: from addicted2success.com|

1. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” – Denis Watiley 2. “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley 3. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman 4. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun 5. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox 6. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer 7. “To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka 8. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer 9. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France 10. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” – Dale Carnegie 11. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington 12. “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore N. Vail 13. “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last-minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.” – H. Ross Perot 14. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” – Washington Irving 15. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher 16. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi 17. “So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.” – Og Mandino 18. “Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 19. “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” – Andrew Carnegie 20. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden 21. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll 22. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt 23. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino 24. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” –Nelson Mandela 25. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” – Unknown 26. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson 27. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore 28. “The dog that trots about finds a bone.” – Golda Meir 29. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller 30. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” –H. G. Wells 31. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill 32. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot 33. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe 34. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil 35. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk 36. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin 37. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – John F. Kennedy 38. “The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.” – Henry Drummond 39. “After a storm comes a calm.” – Matthew Henry 40. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton