200+Powerful Motivational Quotes for Success in Life

What is Motivation?

Motivation is the will or desire to do something due to a set of psychological forces or factors that compel you to act in the service of a goal. It is an essential part of human behavior in setting and accomplishing our goals. Psychologists define motivation as our overall readiness to achieve something. Human beings do things because of a variety of motivational factors that are a combination of psychological forces that urge them to take action.

It is one of the most integral factors behind human behavior, as it is closely related to attaching emotions to every action of a person. Its absence can lead to psychological barriers such as frustration, as people struggle to do something with full enthusiasm when they don’t feel motivated. All in all, motivation involves the desire to keep striving toward a goal, purpose, or meaning in professional or personal life.

Motivation is positive motivation in the real sense. An employee is positively motivated by providing positive incentives. Examples of positive motivation include promotions, praise, recognition, allowances, and perks.

Here is the List of 200+Powerful Motivational Quotes for Success in Life

1-★Believe you can and you’re halfway there.★

2-★Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storms but to add color to my sunset sky.★

3-★ Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.★

4-★It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.★

5-★Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.★

6-★Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.★

7-★ Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.★

8-★Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.★

9-★Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.★

10-★Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. The person who gets out of the shower dries off, and does something about it makes a difference.★

11-★It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.★

12-★Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!★

13-★I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.★

14-★The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.★

15-★Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.★

16-★You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.★

17-★Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.★

18-★Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than boring.★

19-★To be a great Champion You must believe You are the best.
If you’re not, pretend You are.★

20-★One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.★

21-★It doesn’t matter where you are coming from All that matters is where you are going★

22-★Dream big and dare to fail.★

23-★If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.★

24-★When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.★

25-★Love – respect – royalty, that surely is what true friendship is all about.★

26-★If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.★

27-★When a winner makes a mistake, he says, “I was wrong”. When a loser makes a mistake, he says, “It wasn’t my fault”.★

28-★It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong; but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.★

29-★Many people dream of success. Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the 1% of your work that results from 99% which is called failure.★

30-★Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.★

31-★The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result, they get little.★

32-★We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.★

33-★Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you dream.★

34-★The rain may be falling hard outside
But your smile makes it alright
I’m so glad that you’re my friend
I know our friendship will never end.★

35-★The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.★

36-★Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.★

37-★Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.★

38-★To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play with your identifications – don’t let them rule you.★

39-★Nothing is permanent.★

40-★What you get by achieving your goals, is not as important as, what you become by achieving your goals.★

41-★Whether you call it God, the Creator, or the source of creation – it is
constantly on. If it withdraws, the whole universe will collapse and disappear in a moment.★

42-★Sreemad Bhagwad Geeta, which is spoken by Supreme Lord. His sound is transcendental as He is transcendental. Without His grace, we cannot get the actual meaning of scripture. His grace is required to understand Him and His transcendental world.★

43-★Eighty percent of success is showing up.★

44-★ The spiritual journey is individual and highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.★

45-★The best revenge is massive success.★

46-★There is no place where there is no Grace.★

47-★Family or no family; city or forest – your external arrangements don’t decide how you are inside.★

48-★You were never greater than you are right now, nor will you ever be. Your worth is already complete and never changes, only your relationship with it evolves.★

49-★How can ‘you’ understand the absence of the ‘you’ who is trying to understand? It’s just not possible. So, inevitably, what will arise is confusion. Confusion is simply an expression of the impossibility to understand.★

50-★Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.★

51-★Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.★

52-★Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.★

53-★If you can dream it, you can achieve it.★

54-★Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.★

55-★I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.★

56-★The yogic system is about enhancing your perception. The Divine should not be an imagined hope – it should become a living reality for you.★

57-★We don’t realize that our future is being consumed by our past.★

58-★The Divine doesn’t love you. And there is no need because everything is in the lap of the Divine.★

59-★Meditation is the only freedom as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.★

60-★Come prepared to receive not so much of My Words, but of My Silence.★

61-★The job of a Guru is not to interpret the scriptures but to take you to another dimension of life.★

62-★The seed of enlightenment is there in every being. Enlightenment is just a realization.★

63-★Only when you are willing to look at the horror of who you are, the beauty of who you are can be nurtured.★

64-★Grace is only to be found by effort, although it is here and now.★

65-★If you really look for truth, don’t assume anything – just seek.★

66-★It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.★

67-★Suffering is the result of believing that you are a separate self. Withdraw identification from the ego and all suffering end immediately. Will things still hurt? Of course. But they will not produce unnecessary suffering.★

68-★If we ignore the fire, fire will not lose anything, we shall be deprived of the utility of fire. If we do not accept the Supreme Lord, He will lose nothing but we shall be deprived of being protected and maintained by Him.★

69-★An idle mind is Divine’s workshop. An idler’s mind is a devil’s workshop.★

70-★The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.★

71-★Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own weakness and follies. But, cushion your words and attitudes with Love. Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life.★

72-★In enlightenment, there is no pleasure, no pain – just nameless ecstasy.★

73-★Mysticism does not come from the East. It comes from within.★

74-★Conflict in the world is not about good versus bad, but one man’s belief versus another man’s belief.★

75-★If you choose, you can be joyful every moment of your life. It’s time you made your choice.★

76-★There is no such thing as good habits and bad habits. Habit means living life without awareness.★

77-★There is enough room in life for logic, but there is not enough room in logic for life.★

78-★Thoughts and emotions come from the same source. Thoughts are the dry expressions of the mind, emotions are juicy.★

79-★If you look at life on the surface, it is brutal. If you look at it with some sensitivity, it is beautiful. But if you look at it with great depth, everything here is magical.★

80-★If in the midst of fear and frustration, worry and anxiety, depression and disappointment, trial and tribulation, I cling to the Lotus Feet of the Lord, I shall be in perfect peace.★

81-★We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.★

82-★If you do not do what you cannot do, there is no problem. But if you do not do what you can do, you are a tragedy.★

83-★The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.★

84-★Unless your experience goes beyond the limitations of your body and mind, fear is natural.★

85-★As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, the master directs his straying thoughts.★

86-★Something within you is longing to go beyond all boundaries. Allow it to find expression.★

87-★Hata Yoga is about creating a body that will not be a hurdle but a stepping stone for you to blossom into your ultimate possibility.★

88-★It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.★

89-★Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.★

90-★If you give yourself absolutely to what you are doing, you are a natural devotee.★

91-★In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.★

92-★A Woman cannot get enlightened, nor can a Man get enlightened. Only when you are beyond gender identifications, does enlightenment become a possibility.★

93-★Capability and power without the necessary consciousness are dangerous. It’s time to raise human consciousness.★

94-★The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.★

95-★You can live as a fragment of creation or as the very source of creation. It’s time you make your choice.★

96-★Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.★

97-★Alone to ALONE all the way.★

98-★Only when the masculine and the feminine play an equal role in our lives, will there be beauty and purpose to our existence.★

99-★Spiritual tradition is valuable only as a living experience. Otherwise, it becomes an imposition.★

100-★There is a oneness in the existence and a uniqueness in all human beings. The essence of spirituality is to recognize and enjoy this.★

101-★If only there was a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.★

102-★He who trusts in the Lord, is ever at peace, with himself and the world.★

103-★Without religion, many people would need a psychiatrist because they neither have the heart nor the mind to withstand the uncertainty of life and death.★

104-★Truth is in the openness in which all ideas arise, but which isn’t affected by the ideas.★

105-★The separate self can never discover the truth in the end, the truth just awakens to itself through you.★

106-★Love is a longing to include someone as a part of yourself. It is a possibility to become more than what you are, by inclusion.★

107-★Whatever crisis is happening in your life, don’t make a crisis out of
yourself.★

108-★The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say ‘me’ and ‘mine’; they are only blessed in being instruments.★

109-★It doesn’t matter what kind of karma you gathered in the past – this moment’s karma is always in your hands.★

110-★There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will neither know the sweetness of love nor the Divine.★

111-★You can become truly aware and enjoy every bit of life only if you constantly remind yourself that you are mortal.★

112-★Whatever you do with your body – whether you eat, dance, sing, or just sit and breathe – if you do it with involvement and joy, you become a karma yogi.★

113-★When devotion arises, life becomes profound.★

114-★It is not how much you do – how you do it is what makes life beautiful.★

115-★There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though, in fact, we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! ★

116-★Money is only a means, not a goal.★

117-★With every single action that we perform, with every single thought and feeling that we generate within us, we can create a better situation around us.★

118-★Free, we are not the number one, the first of all our objects, but Zero their universal and Absolute Subject.★

119-★Om purnamadah purnamidam purnat purnamudacyate purnasya purnamadaya purnamevavasisyate’ (Ishopanishad)-If you subtract Purna from Purna the remainder will be Purna, it will not be zero.★

120-★Most of the time you are just thinking about life, not living life.★

121-★Whatever you need will just happen if you keep your energies exuberant and focused.★

122-★What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?★

123-★If you are deeply involved with even the simplest aspects of your life, you will see every aspect of your life is spectacular.★\

124-★Human intellect is a tremendous tool. Unfortunately, most human beings are only using it for mundane aspects, such as earning a living.★

125-★One must remember that if one has to learn about Supreme Lord he has to pray for His mercy. Without Lord’s mercy, one cannot attain the divine knowledge about Supreme Lord, as Supreme Lord is Omnipotent and Absolute.★

126-★The love of God is brighter than the sun, cooler than the moon, and sweeter and more fragrant by far than honey and musk.★

127-★We can define the process of understanding how to become more aware but not the awareness to be understood.★

128-★In Sanatan dharma scriptures of India there are two main divisions, karma Kanda and bhakti★

129-★The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.★

130-★Suffering: the sense that things should be different than they are.★

131-★Joy is a natural phenomenon. Misery is your creation.★

132-★Love teaches us to speak little, to gaze much – gaze at the Beauty that is God!★

133-★Having children is not the key to a fulfilled life. You can have a dozen children and still be frustrated.★

134-★Consciousness becomes dimmed chiefly through one’s captivation and abiding interest in external objects.★

135-★The most basic truth of life: One Being is creating all of these different expressions of life. There’s only one Being here, and not only are you it but everyone else is it. Let that sink in a moment.★

136-★If you pay sufficient attention, just one idea, one thought, or one emotion can snowball into something phenomenal for yourself and for the whole of humanity.★

137-★If only you knew the pain of a tree, an animal, a mountain, or anything else in existence the way you know the pain of your own body, you would keep everything well.★

138-★If only you can go through difficult times with inner grace, every situation you face will be an opportunity to enhance your life.★

139-★If you can think about it, it’s not the truth.★

140-★Action, not reaction. In reaction, you get enslaved to the other.★

141-★The source of creation is everywhere – within you and outside of you.★

142-★Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!★

143-★Inclusiveness is not a thought or emotion – it means your energy is willing to reverberate with anything in existence.★

144-★Mind is restless, how to control it? Lord Sri Krishna advises us to practice Abhyasyoga and ‘Vairagya’. ‘Abhyasyoga’ means to try repeatedly. Vairagya has two implications – detachment from worldly and attachment with Krishna.★

145-★It does not take any spiritual teaching to become loving, compassionate, and peaceful. It is just a simple sense.★

146-★When unpleasant things happen in our lives, we can become either wise or wounded – that is a choice we have.★

147-★If we can make just 1% of the population meditative, this world will be a different place.★

148-★For the well-being of humanity, the feminine, and the masculine have to play an equal roles.★

149-★Though a man should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, He who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.★

150-★All emotions, if practiced regularly, grow in size.★

151-★He who never thinks of anything as mine does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.★

152-★Faith is, ‘To believe what you do not see’, the reward of which is, ‘you see what you believed’.★

153-★Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.★

154-★If there is something that means something to you, you should not postpone it for a single day.★

155-★A single touch of love can convert a savage into a civilized man.★

156-★The criterion of recognizing a Sad Guru is that Guru must have two special qualities – as mentioned in the Upanishad, the Geeta, and Bhagavat★

157-★True dignity is known only to the one who has risen beyond sin and virtue.★

158-★Everything comes from nothingness and goes back to nothingness. Nothingness is the basis of existence.★

159-★It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.★

160-★We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.★

161-★Sadhana is to master one’s body, mind, emotion, and energy.★

162-★When everything in existence is happening through an organic and intelligent design, is it possible that your life alone is happening accidentally?★

163-★Death is a cosmic joke. If you get the joke, falling on the other side will be wonderful.★

164-★We do not need concepts to run life. Life runs according to the fundamental laws of nature.★

165-★No matter where we are or what may be happening, connecting with the Self, our True Nature, is readily available as the in-breath.★

166-★Once your life is an expression of your blissfulness, you will not be in conflict with anyone.★

167-★How can you die when you are also dead?★

168-★People resist change because they rather stick to the known devil than pursue the unknown angel.★

169-★In relinquishing the limited, the unlimited becomes yours.★

170-★The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.★

171-★Until you know the pure ecstasy of being, your life is not fulfilled.★

172-★To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.★

173-★The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.★

174-★Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.★

175-★Absolute passion toward the Divine. Compassion towards all life. Dispassion towards yourself.★

176-★The one you have created the laws of nature also has the powers to break the laws of nature.★

177-★Conscious action does not produce karma – reaction does.★

178-★Two from one! This is the root of suffering.★

179-★We are actors in a play who have forgotten they are in a play.★

180-★One who is stuck in the realm of right and wrong, like and dislike, will never know the texture of love.★

181-★A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.★

182-★Atman is also known as MAUN, where there is not even a trace of EGO.★

183-★If you learn to create the right climate in your body, mind, and emotion, your health, wellbeing, and joy – everything will be taken care of.★

184-★If I have but one atom of the love divine in the heart within, I shall not care for the highest paradise!★

185-★Diwali is not just about lighting lamps outside. Let your inner light shine.★

186-★Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.★

187-★Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.★

188-★Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.★

189-★Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.★

190-★Men make roads, but it is the women who teach the children how to walk on them.★

191-★A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.★

192-★The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.★

193-★When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.★

194-★Practice not doing. And everything will fall into place.★

195-★To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.★

196-★The bark of a dog, the chirping of a bird, the drone of the insects, the full-throated symphony of the frogs, the drum, and the sacred chant are all same to the divine ear.★

197-★It is good to love God for the hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor, children nor learning. Grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward.★

198-★A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.★

199-★If you have one eye set on the goal, you have only one eye to find your way.★

200-★It takes awareness to be involved but not entangled. The joy of life is in involvement, not entanglement.★