We all want to achieve success. But it can be hard to stay motivated, especially now, during a global pandemic. So, here are 20 quotes to keep you going through these tough times.
- “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” Pablo Picasso
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” Steve Jobs
- “You don’t drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there.” Robert Collier
- “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” Ray Goforth
- “Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.” Barbara Baron
- “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” Swami Vivekananda
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
- “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Tony Robbins
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun
- “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” Denis Waitley
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” Mark Twain
- “Nothing will work unless you do.” Maya Angelou
- “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” Stephen R Covey
- “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” Thomas Jefferson
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” Zig Ziglar
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank
