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50 Motivational Quotes That'll Encourage You To Follow Your Dreams

Anything is possible. Anything. 
Holly Riordan
June 2, 2016
“Saying that the point of business is to produce profit is like saying that the whole point of playing basketball is to make as many baskets as possible. One could make many more baskets by having no opponent. The game and styles of playing the game are what matter because they produce identities people care about.”
— Hubert Dreyfus, Disclosing New Worlds
Tagged: Business, Outcomes, Journey Not Destination
“My father believed he had an obligation to his tenants. His motto was simple: You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job. That always made sense to me.”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
Tagged: Family, Values, Work, The American Dream, Career, Business
“If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.”
— Tom Hanks, A League Of Their Own
Tagged: inspiration, motivation, Hard Work, Work, Change, Growth, Personal Development, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges, Challenging Yourself
“Success is like wrestling with a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
— Robert Strauss, No Title
Tagged: Success, Overcoming Obstacles, perseverance, strength, Endurance, Motivational, motivation
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
— William James, No Title
Tagged: inspiration, motivation, Challenges, Overcoming Obstacles
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.”
— Brian Tracy, No Title
Tagged: Success, Successful People, Motivational, motivation, Self-Direction, Self-improvement, Decisions, Independence
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
— Arnold Glasgow, No Title
Tagged: Success, Work, Self-Expression, Creativity, perseverance
“Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.”
— Jake, Adventure Time
Tagged: motivation, adventure time
“Success isn’t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren’t truly emotionally invested in your work.”
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Tagged: Success, Failure, Work, Investment
“The honest to god truth? In the year prior to becoming a full-time producer and writer, I wrote over 350 pieces for various publications. I worked to get where I am today. It wasn’t just lucky. It was work. But I’d do it all over again.”
— Kendra Syrdal, 5 Things (5.8.16)
Tagged: Writing on the internet, Writing, feminism, Career, How to be a writer
“I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride
Tagged: Change, Life, Making A Difference, Influential, Self-improvement
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life, Journey, purpose, Faith, Hope, Dreams
“If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy. It's you.”
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen, Khang Kijarro Quotes
Tagged: How To Think, Psychology, Philosophy, Life
“You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Blame, Success, Failure, Taking Responsibility
“No one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Tagged: Desire, Life, Joy, strength, Optimism
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
— Dale Carnegie, "Dreaming," Dale Carnegie's Thoughts On Freedom And Happiness by Michael Miles
Tagged: Human Nature, Grass I Always Greener, Life, Life Experience, Living Your Life
“You will always be okay! Money and material things come to you when you dare to trust in life’s ability to take you exactly where you need to go. When we live in fear we create tense vibrations that keep the things we long for at a distance. Worrying is praying for what we don’t want to happen. Focus on what you want, not what you fear!”
— Rachel Brathen, Yoga Girl
Tagged: Life, Focus, Appreciation, Trust, Create
“We only have one life. If we live an awful lot of it not doing something that would make us very happy, hurts no one and might actually be worth something in the general scheme of things, it’s pretty sad if we don’t do it, just because we might get our heads kicked in.”
— Frieda Hughes, Frieda Hughes: ‘I felt my parents were stolen’
Tagged: Passion, Life, Art, Just Do It, Happiness
“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Tagged: Love, Success, Self-Concept, Human Nature
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Hard Work
“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Tagged: Hard Work, Motivational, Dreams
“Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.”
— Julien Smith, The Flinch
Tagged: Motivational, Dreams, Success
“When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tagged: Hard Work, Success, Dreams
“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Tagged: Hard Work, Success, Dreams, Motivational
“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
— Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
Tagged: Dreams, Failure
“It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.”
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”
— Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams, Self-Love
“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”
— David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Hard Work
“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational
“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Tagged: Career, Dreams, Hard Work