Positive Quotes can create a very powerful impact in your life which can help you achieve success in life, relationship, business, career and society. Words of wisdom have the tremendous potential to instill the much needed confidence. Encouraging words can make you stronger and help in switching your current life situation for better. Remember, you also need to take action which requires courage, and is essential to make the change. Below are 100 most powerful motivational quotes from famous people.

100 Top Motivational Quotes

1. Just Do it ! – Nike

2. Begin anywhere. – John Cage

3. Make yourself proud. – Peter W. Smith

4. Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle

5. Fortune favors the brave. – Virgil

6. Fake it ’till you make it. – Gayle Forman

7. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. – Steve Jobs

8. Go with the best you’ve got. – Al Lopez

9. The beginning is always NOW. – Roy T. Bennett

10. Make today worth remembering. – Zig Ziglar

11. There’s a Genius in all of us. – Albert Einstein

12. Your vibe attracts your tribe. – Anonymous

13. Each day provides its own gifts. – Marcus Aurelius

14. Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf Hunt

15. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

16. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

17. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

18. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

19. Step by step and the thing is done. – Charles Atlas

20. What you stay focused on will grow. – Roy T. Bennett

21. The harder I work, the luckier I get. – Gary Player

22. The impossible is often the untried. – Jim Goodwin

23. Word by word the big books are made. – French Proverb

24. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

25. Our strength grows out of our weakness. – Emerson

26. Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. – John Maxwell

27. If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. – Ben Hogan

28. The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom

29. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

30. The ultimate inspiration is the DEADLINE. – Nolan Bushnell

31. Do it first and feel about it afterwards. – Ayn Rand

32. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve

33. Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

34. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. – Dolly Parton

35. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. – Jojo Moyes

36. When the sun rises; it rises for everyone. – Cuban Proverb

37. Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury

38. Do what you love and the money will follow. – Marsha Sinetar

39. The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. – Douglas Horton

40. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle

41. Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Dr. Robert Schuller

42. It always seems impossible until it is done. – Nelson Mandela

43. You can only work on yourself. Start there. – Alice O. Howell

44. You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. – John Mason

45. Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank

46. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

47. Pull yourself together and use what you have. – Betsy Cañas Garmon

48. Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

49. When the going gets tough, the tough get going – Billy Joel

50. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

51. What if I fall? oh, my darling, but if you fly? – Erin Hanson

52. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

53. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

54. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller

55. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. – Woody Allen

56. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

57. The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha

58. If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. – Seth Godin

59. When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. – Henry J. Kaiser

60. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

61. A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

62. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Teddy Roosevelt

63. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

64. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi

65. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Ben Spock

66. Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson

67. When you believe in a thing; believe in all the way. – Walt Disney

68. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

69. The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. – Alan Saporta

70. Don’t stop when you’re tired. STOP when you are DONE. – Anonymous

71. To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst. – Wilson Kanadi

72. Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. – Scott Reed

73. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. – Orison Sweet Marden

74. Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. – Petryl Hsieh

75. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan

76. No matter how far you’ve gone on a wrong road, turn back. – Turkish Proverb

77. The successful man is one who had the chance and took it. – Roger Babson

78. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

79. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston

80. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! – Audrey Hepburn

81. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

82. Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later. – Og Mandino

83. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

84. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

85. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

86. If you don’t change your commitment then sky is the limit for you. – Anonymous

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

88. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – J.R.R. Tolkien

89. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn

90. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie

91. People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one. – Kevin Kline

92. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. – Richard Cech

93. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle

94. When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t. – Thomas Edison

95. First, say to yourself what you would be; Then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

96. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin

97. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

98. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar

99. Sometimes you have to jump first and; build your wings on the way down. – Anonymous

100. It’s not that I’m so smart; Its’ just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

More Motivational Quotes

101. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand

102. Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert

103. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. – Mabel Newcomber

104. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. – Simone de Beauvoir

105. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

106. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. – Anonymous

107. Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. – Betty Bender

108. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie

109. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh

110. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh