Famous Motivational Quotations

I love reading famous motivational quotations. I use them as part of my personal growth plan as self motivation techniques. Some of them are quotes of life while others may be weight loss motivation quotes.

How to get motivation is sometimes a bit of a struggle. I enjoy using these famous motivational quotations and motivational music as a kick in the butt to keep me on track as part of my personal growth solutions plan.

You may also enjoy these famous movie quotations.

Inspirational Quotations

These famous motivational quotations may also be used to help overcome emotional health problems when we are feeling down about life.

• The shortest distance between two people is understanding each other - unknown


• If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra


• We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder


• The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke


• Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder


• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle


• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire


• Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli


• You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Author Unknown


• The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost


• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague


• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson


• Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence


• He who hesitates is lost. - Proverb


• Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius


• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein


• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


• We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. - Winston Churchill


• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


• For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior


• Constant dripping hollows out a stone. - Lucretius

Weight Loss Motivation Quotes

We know the reasons to exercise, but sometimes a few famous motivational quotations can help to give us the push that we need to keep going.

• Cyril Connolly - One way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.


• Julius Erving - If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.


• Jim Eason - If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.


• Unknown Author - Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.


• Vince Lombardi - It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.


• Winston Churchill - Never, never, never, never give up.


• Eleanor Roosevelt - No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.


• Horace - Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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