How to motivate yourself to do something: quotes from successful people

There are difficulties in everyone’s life, but there are simple truths that you need to repeat to yourself in such moments. We have collected 15 phrases that we think will help you cheer up in any situation.

1. Many people fail simply because they give up two steps away from success. (Simon Hartley)

2. You can waste a lifetime trying to live up to someone else’s standards, and for that someone you are not good enough just because they basically don’t understand you. (Barbara Sher)

You can win if you want to!

3- He who does nothing is not wrong. Thomas Edison said: “In all 200 light bulbs that did not work, there was something I took into account in my next attempt.”

4. Even if you fail, time will pass and you will realize that saying “I tried and failed” sounds far more worthy, honest, higher and stronger than the trite excuse of “I could have if I had tried.” (Al Quotion)

5. The lesson I learned and have followed all my life has been to try, and try, and try again – but never give up! (Richard Branson)

Believe in yourself!

6. In my career, I have missed over 9,000 times and lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was trusted to make the final winning shot and I missed. I failed again, and again, and again. And that’s why I was successful. (Michael Jordan)

7. Do at least once what others say you can’t do. After that, you will never pay attention to their rules and restrictions again. (James Cook)

8. When you get very tight and everything turns against you, and it seems that there is no strength to endure a single minute more – do not retreat for anything: it is at such moments comes the turning point in the struggle. (Grace Hopper)

9. Faced with difficulties, you can not give up, run away. You must assess the situation, look for solutions and believe that everything is done for the best. Patience is the key to victory. (Nick Vujicic.)

Do something great!

10. If you don’t do anything yourself, how can you be helped? You can only drive a moving automobile. (Dalai Lama)

11. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. (Gabriel Marquez)

12. Success is more likely to fall to the one who acts boldly, but it is seldom achieved by those who are timid and constantly fear the consequences. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

If you haven't known failure, you'll never know success

If you have not known failure, you will never know success

13. Sometimes it is better to make a wrong choice than to refuse to make a choice at all. He who stops at a crossroads, unable to decide which way to go, will never accomplish anything. (Terry Goodkind)

14. When everything in life seems to be falling apart, I begin to dream of what I will build in the vacated space. (Grace Hopper)

15. Most people are much stronger than they realize, they just forget to believe it sometimes. (Dale Carnegie)