Top 30 Best Motivational Quotes to Reach Your Goals

Sometimes it’s hard to keep yourself motivated especially when things aren’t going your way as you planned. You must not give up. Some of the best motivational quotes were spoken by the greatest achievers in the history of mankind and they mean so much more due to their impact on society.

Here are top 30 motivational quotes to keep you going to that you reach your goals.

1 “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

2 “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

3 “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

4 “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee

5 “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” – Bruce Lee

6 “Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

7 “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

8 “Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.” – Orison Swett Marden

9 “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon

10 “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

11 “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

12 “I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

13 “In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

14 “The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.” – Kahlil Gibran

15 “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra

16 “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” – Henry Ford

17 “All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.” – Henry David Thoreau

18 “A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.” – Confucius

19 “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.” – Washington Irving

20 “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.” – Seneca

21 “A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.” – Chinese Proverb

22 “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

23 “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison

24 “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

25 “Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith

26 “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh

27 “He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

28 “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Patrick Henry

29 “Tomorrow comes after the dark” – Tupac Shakur

30 “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery