Motivational quotes can be powerful tools.
Quotes can offer new ways to think about challenges, setbacks, or self-doubt. They can remind you of your strengths, potential, and past successes, shifting your focus from negativity to possibility.
Words of encouragement and belief from respected figures can fuel your confidence and reignite hope. Referring to quotes often can contribute to a mindset shift towards growth and resilience.
Here is a compilation of the best motivational quotes from 6 of the GREATS: Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Steve Harvey, and Zig Ziglar.
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Jim Rohn Motivational Quotes
“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
“The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
“Goals are like a magnet — they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.”
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
“Unless you change how you are, you’ll always have what you’ve got.”
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”
“Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life–the opportunity to change yourself.”
“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.”
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.”
“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”
“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.”
“How long should you try? Until.”
Brian Tracy Motivational Quotes
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
“If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.”
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”
“All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
“The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.”
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
“Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.”
Tony Robbins Motivational Quotes
“Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
“People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
“If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.”
“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”
“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”
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Les Brown Motivational Quotes
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
“To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”
“Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.”
“Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.”
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
“Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.”
“Take action in order to move toward your goals.”
“If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing.”
“The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.”
“Your dream was given to you. If someone else can’t see it for you, that’s fine, it was given to you and not them. It’s your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!”
“Goals help you channel your energy into action.”
“Know your gifts and share them.”
“You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.”
Steve Harvey Motivational Quotes
“Your willingness to jump will open doors for you. Every jump will increase your wisdom and broaden your vision.”
“If you accept that life is a series of ups and downs, you will get through the downs.”
“You can sit there and watch the years roll by with your goals unfulfilled, or you can take a chance and live like you have never lived before.”
“The only difference between you and the successful people you see in your life every day is that they have jumped.”
“If you do what you’ve always done, your life will not get better.”
“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.”
“Change comes in every person’s life. You can either react to it or you can participate in it.”
“The boredom of normalcy and the numbness of mediocrity stiffens your passion.”
“If you want to be successful you have to jump, there’s no way around it. If you’re safe, you’ll never soar. “
“My dreams were bigger than all my problems.”
“Don’t let your mind stop you.”
“You can’t tell big dreams to small-minded people. “
“Failure means you’ve now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.”
Zig Ziglar Motivational Quotes
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
“Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”
“Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.”
“The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.”
“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
“When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”
“It’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be worth it.”
“You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.”
“It’s not where you start but where you finish that counts.”
“You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”
“Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don’t like your life, start making better choices.”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Final Thoughts on Motivational Quotes
Quotes can serve as a call to action, prompting you to take steps toward your goals and persevere through obstacles. Use these quotes to keep you focused when you are UP, and to help pull you forward when you are DOWN.
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