100 Powerful Motivational Quotes to spark your inner fire and drive!

Most people are good people, but they can do better, and most people already know what to do to improve their lives. But the question is why aren't they doing it?

What is missing is the spark-motivation. The most powerful motivation comes from within our belief system. To move into action, we need to believe in what we do and accept responsibility for our life. When we accept responsibility for our behaviour and actions, our attitudes toward life becomes positive. We become more productive, both personally and professionally. Our relationships improve both at home and at work. Life becomes more meaningful and fulfilling. Motivation is powerful. It can persuade, convince and propel you into action. It is a force that can literally change your life. Here are some of the Best Motivational Quotes to get you up and get you moving.

1 The only thing standing between you and your goal

is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself

as to why you can't achieve it.

~ Jordan Belfort

2 It's never too late to change your life for the better.

You don't have to take huge steps to change your life.

 Making even one smallest changes to 

your a daily routine can make

 a big difference to your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

3 Even if you fall on your face you're 

still moving forward.

 ~ Victor Kiam

4 Incredible change happens in your life 

when you decide to take control of what you do have power over 

instead of craving control over what you don't.

~ Steve Maraboli

5 Focus on your strengths, not your weakness.Focus on your character, 

not your reputation, focus on your blessings, 

not your misfortunes.

~ Roy T. Bennett

6 Leap and the net will appear.

~ John Burroughs

7 The man who moves a mountain begins 

by carrying away small stones.

~ Confucius

8 If a craftsman wants to do good work, 

he must sharpen his tools.

~ Confucius

9 Don't wait to strike till the iron is hot;

but make it hot by striking.

~ William Butler

10 You never change your life until you step out

of your comfort zone, change begins at the

end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

11 Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act it!

 Action will delineate and define you.

~Thomas Jefferson

12 Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.

 Keep going. Tough situations built strong people in the end.

~ Roy T. Bennett

13 I've failed over and over and over again. 

And that is why I succeed.

~ Michael Jordan

14 It's not the load that breaks you down,

it's the way you carry it.

~ Lao Holtz

15 Always do your best. What you plant now, 

you will harvest later.

~ Og Mandino

16 Live the life of your dreams: Be brave enough to live the life 

of your dreams according to your vision and purpose

instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

~ Roy T. Bennett

17 Don't worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don't worry if you aren't known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration.

~ Confucius

18 If you want to build a ship,  don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,  but rather teach them to long for the endless the immensity of the sea.

~ Anthony de Saint-Exupery

19 When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound,

 rebuild those plans, and set sail once more 

toward your coveted goal.

~ Napoleon Hill

20 It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. 

All that matters is you get up one more time than

 you were knocked down.

~ Roy T. Bennet

21 Don't let others tell you what you can't do. 

Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. 

If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, 

you can achieve what you never thought possible.

~ Roy T. Bennet

22 It's never too late to change your life for the better.

You don't have to take huge steps to change your life.

Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine

can make a big difference in your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

23 You don't need to see the whole staircase,

just take the first steps.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

24 Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

~ Chris Grosser

25 Keep your face always toward the sunshine 

- and shadows will fall behind you.

~ Walt Whitman

26 If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

~ Napoleon Hill

27 If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. 

Your passion will drive you there.

~ Roy T. Bennett

28 A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. 

~ David Brinkley

29 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~Thomas A. Edison

30 When writing the story of your life, Don't let anyone else hold the pen.

~ Harley Davidson

31 Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

~ Coco Chanel

32 If you don't know exactly where you're going, how will you know when you get there?

~ Steve Maraboli

33 Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destinations. 

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals,

 these are the road maps that guide 

you to your destination.

~ Roy T. Bennett

34 Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those 

who go out and get them.

~ Anonymous

35 Don't quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.

~ Unknown

36 Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions 

based on where they want to be.

~ Benjamin Hardy

37 You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

~ Shonda Rhimes

38 When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

~ Steven Wright

39 The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

~Tomy Lasorda

40 I can't change the direction of the wind. But I can adjust to always reach my destination.

~ Jimmy Dean

41 There has never been a meaningful a life built on easy street.

~ John Paul Warren

42 Don't wait for your feelings to change to take the action. 

Take the action and your feelings will change.

~ Barbara Baron

43 When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound,

 rebuild those plans, and set sail once more

toward your coveted goal.

~ Napoleon Hill

44 The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

~Vince Lombardi

45 Forget yesterday-it has already forgotten you.  

Don't sweat tomorrow-you haven't even met. Instead,

 open your eyes and open your heart to a truly precious gift today.

~ Steve Maraboli

46 Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.You get to choose.

~ Wayne Dyer

47 If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore.

~ Michele Ruiz

48 First, you say to yourself what you would be, 

and then do what you have to do.

~ Epictetus

49 A person who never made a mistake 

never tried anything new. 

~ Albert Einstein

50 At the end of the day, let there be no excuses,  

no explanations, no regrets.

~ Steve Maraboli

51 One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting  

when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

~ Napoleon Hill

52 Success is not final, failure is not fatal,

 it is the courage to continue that counts.
~Winston Churchill

53 Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you 

the momentum necessary to get over it.

~ Peter de jager

54 Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over
if you just sit there.
~Will Rogers

55 If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
~ Napoleon Hill

56 Ships in harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

~ John Shed

57 You have to take risks, we will only
understand the miracle of life fully when we
allow the unexpected to happen.
~ Paulo Coelho

58 I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~Thomas Alva Edison

59 Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
~ Albert Einstein

60 The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling but 

in rising again after you fall.
~ Vince Lombardi

61 If your ship doesn't come in. Swim out to it.
~ Jonathan Winters

62 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

63 I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. 

But I can't accept not trying again.
~ Michael Jordan

64 Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations,

 our possibilities become limitless.

~ Janie Paolinetti

65 When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other

and just keep going. Don't give up.

~ Roy T. Bennett

66 Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~ John Wooden

67 Only he who attempts the absurd is capable

of achieving the impossible.

~ Miguel de Unamuno

68 If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others,

you are going to run out of gas.

~ Steve Maraboli

69 When one door of happiness closes, another opens, 

but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one

 that has been opened for us.
~ Helen Keller

70 Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
~ Arthur Asha

71 If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
~ Milton Berle

72 Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'.

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

~ George Herbert

73 Move out of your comfort zone you can only grow if you

 are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable
when you try something new.
~ Brian Tracy

74 The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one is ever been.
~ Albert Einstein

75 It always seems impossible until it's done.
~ Nelson Mandela

76 Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

~ Steve Maraboli

77 I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job. 

Because he will find an easy way to do it.

~ Bill Gates

78 Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision

of right or wrong for you.

~ Steve Maraboli

79 Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

~ Napoleon Hill

80 Two roads diverged on wood, and I took the one less traveled by, 

and that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost

81 I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

 I've lost almost 300 games. 

26 times I've been trusted to 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

82 Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you.

You are the one who decides.

~ Steve Maraboli

83 Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness...

the door is open and unlocked...Just walk through it.

~ Steve Maraboli

84 Your beliefs affect your choices. 

Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine 

your results. The future you create depends upon the choices

 you make and the actions you take today.

~ Roy T. Bennett

85 We become what we think about it.
~ Earl Nightingale

86 Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
~ Charles Swindoll

87 The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. 

The second best time is now.
~ Chinese Proverb

88 The two most important days in your life are the day 

you are born and the day you find out why.

~ Mark Twain

89 Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk.

This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving

other people the power to shape your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

90 There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing,  

say nothing,  and be nothing.

~ Aristotle

91 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; 

knock and the door will be opened to you.
~ Jesus

92 Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

 Live the life you have imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau

93 Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
~ George Add-air

94 Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle 

to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

~ Wayne Dyer

95 Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain

 an artist once he grows up.
~ Pablo Picasso

96 You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage 

 to lose sight of the shore.

~ Christopher Columbus

97 Whether you think you can or you think, you can't, you're right.

~ Henry Ford

98 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

~ Steve Jobs

99 This is a reminder to you to create your own rule book,

and live your life the way you want it.

~ Reese Evans

100 I've learned that people will forget what you said, 

people will forget what you did, but people never forget 

how you made then feel.
~ Maya Angelou