Motivational quotes can't magically fix everything, but they can certainly help to keep you on the right path. They can even help change your mindset. Here are more of our favorites.
Everyone loves quotes on self motivation, right. They can help get you started on a project you’ve been putting off or they can be a reminder to keep moving forward on the path you’ve already started. Sometimes, great quotes can even help you see something from a new perspective.
Of course, sometimes we like to read great motivational quotes because they’re just fun!
Regardless of your reasons, here are some more self motivational quotes for you. One of them might even change your life!
Motivational Quotes
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
- That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. Confucius
- The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. Ayn Rand
- If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas Edison
- 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
- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz
- I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. William DeMille Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
- The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you.
- But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours. Beatrice Vincent
- The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James
- The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting. Christopher Morley
- You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. Jean Church
- We are new every day. Irene Claremont de Castillego
- Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
- Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill. Jacob M. Braude
- We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. William Barclay
- I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. Abraham Lincoln
- Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer. Leo F. Buscaglia
- Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand

