15 Uplifting Motivational Quotes and Understanding What they Mean
Have you heard these inspiring words that help you cope with life everyday?
Sometimes in life, we need the uplifting words of inspiration that can come from others, especially popular or notable people who have achieved all kinds of accomplishments.
I for one, just love reading and hearing motivational quotes from famous people, and the only thing I like better, is sharing some of that inspiration with others.
Here are 15 different motivational quotes that you can apply in your life. They teach us all kinds of important lessons, and you couldn’t find a better source for advice and opinions about life.
As you consider the following quotes, notice the comments I provided underneath each one. This is just my simple take on what the quotation means to me.
Please Enjoy.
15 Motivation Quotes
- “Courage is the resistance to fear. Mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — MARK TWAIN
To me, this says that we can’t expect to avoid fear, but when we confront it, we should do all we can to resist it.
2. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — MOHAMMAD ALI
If we spend our time counting days and constantly waiting for a certain time in the future, we miss out on enjoying the time that is passing; time we’ll never be able to regain.
3. “Focus on your potential, not your limitations.” — ALAN LOY
Everyone in the world has some type of limitation or shortcoming, because no one is perfect. The key to balance, is to focus on what we’re capable of, and not on what we’re unable to do.
4. “Laughter is an instant vacation.” MILTON BERLE
Laughter has the power to actually take you away from your current bad, sad, or negative mindset, just like a mini vacation.
5. “Our life is shaped by mind. We become what we think. — BUDDAH
The power of positive thinking is more than just a philosophy. The things we think and focus our conscious attention on can become manifest, if we think it, and work in harmony with those thoughts.
6. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — INGRID BERGMAN
Too often, people spend so much time struggling to achieve someone else’s idea of success, that when they finally get it, they realize it’s not even what they really want. You can only be happy if what you get is actually what you want.
7. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — WINSTON CHURCHILL
Many people miss the point of this saying. It teaches us that we are succeeding with each and every failure. We wouldn’t be able to fail multiple times, if we had failed only once and gave up the first time. But the more we fail, and not give up, the closer we come to our ultimate success.
8. “Take rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” OVID
No group of people ever needed to hear these words more, than a community of busy writers, trying hard to succeed. But succeeding (aka: having a bountiful crop) is reliant on our being able to get enough rest, so we can do a hard day’s work more effectively.
9. “The possibilities are endless once we decide to act and react.” — GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
This sayings lets us know there is nothing we can’t achieve, once we make a firm and committed decision and then take decisive action.
10. “The ultimate source of happiness is our mental attitude.” — DALAI LAMA
It’s no secret that when we are stressed and mentally fatigued, our life suffers in a number of ways. In order to maintain a level of happiness on a daily basis, we must also be doing the necessary things to safeguard our mental health.
11. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” — VINCENT VAN GOGH
We would definitely have no conveniences and luxuries in life, if it weren’t for someone having had the courage to create or try something new. Courage is everything in life because it plays a big part in everything we do.
12. “When you learn teach, when you get give.” — MAYA ANGELOU
No one could possibly miss the profound lesson in these few simple words that speak to us about always sharing what we know, and what we have with others.
13. “Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.” — CARL GUSTAV JUNG
While there is nothing wrong with dreaming, if all you do is continue looking outward, figuratively speaking, you will always be a dreamer, but never accomplish those dreams. By looking inward, you come to realizations that help you awake (figuratively), so you become aware of what you need to do to see your dreams become a reality.
14. “Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” — RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Imagine the positive impact on your life, if you could get up each morning, and condition your mind to view every day as if it were the best day of the year. But don’t just condition your mind. You also need to write it in your heart.
15. “Yesterday I was clever and wanted to change the world. Today I’m wise so I’m changing myself.” — RUMI
What better lesson can we learn in life, than to stop and recognize that true change begins with us, because the only ones we’re really in control of changing is ourselves.
Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed these quotes, some of which are my own personal favorites.
Quotes, affirmations and other positive and uplifting words can be just the motivating force you need in your life to help keep you focused and on track.
- If you get used to reading them on a regular basis, that’s a good thing. But even better, try and get used to applying the advice that these quotes contain.
- If you forget the actual quote, just make sure to remember the sentiment, as expressed by the statements that were published under each quotation.
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