Quotes and aphorisms on motivation | The World of English

Quotes and aphorisms on motivation, a selection of great sentences by famous authors to inspire and strengthen your will in order to increase also your resilience.

The secret of human motivation lies in purpose, autonomy, and mastery. These elements drive people to engage, persist, and excel in their endeavors. Motivation is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. While genetic predispositions can affect baseline levels of drive and persistence, motivation can also be significantly cultivated and enhanced through learning, experiences, and the environment.

Motivational quotes have a practical and direct purpose, often aiming to stimulate concrete actions. They are used to give the push needed to face challenges, to maintain focus on specific goals and to persevere in the face of difficulties. Motivational phrases tend to be pragmatic, energetic and results-oriented, inviting us to take action. These nuggets of wisdom encourage us to always do better, to never give up and to always move forward no matter what happens.

Money is important for providing motivation, especially for meeting basic needs and achieving financial security. However, its effectiveness as a motivator diminishes once these needs are met. Intrinsic motivators, such as personal growth, autonomy, and a sense of purpose, often play a more significant role in sustained motivation and job satisfaction.

To be motivated you have to find a goal, pursue a goal, stimulate desire, cultivate passion and not just think about satisfying your physiological needs, and filling the sewers.
Carl William Brown

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it destiny.
Carl Gustav Jung

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King

Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.
Robin Sharma

Very often there is nothing more unconscious than our ignorance, of which we obviously disregard the existence; therefore opening the mind to the ethics of knowledge and cultivating one’s learning is the only wise thing to do in order to give a sense to our mysterious life.
Carl William Brown

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Strive not to be merely successful, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t let yourself be discouraged, move, think, read, listen to music, exercise, learn something, take action, stay calm, strengthen your concentration, and trust yourself as you continue your fight.
Carl William Brown

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Stevie Wonder

Who seeks shall find.
Sophocles

It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

Never give in and never give up.
Hubert H. Humphrey

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Anonumous

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

Character is destiny, that is, our life is closely linked to our behavior and vice versa.
Carl William Brown

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn

My mum was massively important to everything I’ve done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.
Fran Kirby

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Phillips Brooks

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

Don’t underestimate yourself, don’t be a fanatic or a fan, not even of heroes, always remember that man is not a superior animal at all, in fact he is the most squalid of all.
Carl William Brown

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt

I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

Some scholars wonder why I am so motivated to attack stupidity, and they do not know that my motivation comes from the very kinds of questions they are used to asking.
Carl William Brown

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

He conquers who endures.
Persius

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Henry Drummond

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy

Unfortunately for the muses it is not a great satisfaction that too many people think only of satisfying their physiological needs and of filling the sewers more and more.
Carl William Brown

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile

You shouldn’t need a stupid mass of people to confirm your value, your confidence must come from within.
Carl William Brown

Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
Taika Waititi

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton