40+ Motivational Quotes to Get You Through The Day

Every morning brings new hope and a new beginning. You must begin each day with a grateful heart and a beautiful smile if you want to cultivate happiness and peace in your life. This will encourage you to express positivity and gratitude throughout the day. Looking for something to get you going in the morning? These motivational quotes will help you start your day on a happy and positive note. 

“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.”

Mark Twain 

“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”

Eleanor Roosevelt 

“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.

Walter Anderson 
Mahatma Gandhi Motivational Quotes

“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.”

Mahatma Gandhi 

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Herman Melville 

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”

Colin R. Davis 

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success.”

Dale Carnegie 

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

Winston Churchill

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”

Will Rogers 

“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”  

Unknown 

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year !“

David Dweck 
Steve Jobs Motivational Quotes

“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

Steve Jobs 

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.”

Germany Kent 

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Zig Ziglar

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.”

Pablo Picasso

“Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.”

Angela Bassett

“If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.”

Tobias Lütke

“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”

Anne Lamott 

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

Warren Buffet 

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

A.A. Milne 
Benjamin Franklin Motivational Quotes

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

Benjamin Franklin 

“Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.”

Jason Fried

“The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.”

Jessica Ennis 

“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

Steve Jobs 

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Albert Einstein 

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.”

Napoleon Hill 

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

Jim Rohn 

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

Abraham Lincoln 
Confucius Motivational Quotes

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Confucius 

“Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.”

Unknown 

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

Mary Anne Radmacher 

“Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you!”

Dr. Seuss

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

Ralph Marston 

“Don’t be afraid to fail; it’s proof you’ll soon be successful.”

Barbara Corcoran 

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.”

Karen Lamb 

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

Mark Twain 

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”

Julia Child 
Farrah Gray Motivational Quotes

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

Farrah Gray 

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction.”

George Lorimer

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

Lou Holtz

“Go as far as you can see, and you will see further.”

Zig Ziglar 

“Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish. Time will pass anyway.”

Earl Nightingale

Wrapping Up 

Remember that if you start your day with a positive attitude and mindset, positive outcomes will follow. You can use these motivational quotes to encourage or inspire yourself whenever life gets tough. 

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