Motivational quotes can help you reach your potential each day. Motivational quotes often feel like our own opinions making a return visit, just heightened by someone with writing talent.

These motivating phrases can encourage us to get up, take action, dump the excuses, escape our comfort zone, and do the hard work that needs doing.

These inspirational quotes will help you make changes in your life today.

Motivational quote of the day

1. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” — Nicole Kidman
2. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett
3. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso
4. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende
5.  “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
6.  “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill   
7. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we    recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
8.  “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Denise Brennan-Nelson
9.  “Hire character. Train skill.” — Peter Schutz
10. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
11.  “The best way out is always through.” ― Robert Frost
12. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
13. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” — Ruth Gordo
14.  “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest   stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
15.  “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
16.  “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas
17. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”— Oprah Winfrey
18.  “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” — Lady Gaga
19. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”  — Mandy Hale
20.  “Belief creates the actual fact.” — William James

Motivational quotes to inspire action

1. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” — Carl Sagan
2. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
3. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ― Kurt Cobain
4. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ― Shonda Rhimes
5. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”— Roald Dahl
6.  “You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane von Furstenberg
7. “Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” ― Kamari aka Lyrikal
8. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” — Vince Lombardi
9. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
10. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” — Erica Jong
11.  “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” — Leymah Gbowee
12. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” — Childish Gambino
13. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay
14. “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” — Henry David Thoreau
15. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel
16.  “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
17. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” —Jennifer Lopez
18. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael Jordan
19. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!” — Dolly Parton
20.  “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” — David Hurley

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