We  all need a little motivation every now and again.

So I’ve compiled a list of my 116 favourite motivational, success-related quotes.

If you’re feeling the pressure and you feel like giving-up, have a read through these to refresh your mindset, and remember – it’s always darkest before the dawn.

If you don’t give up, no matter how tough things get, persevere and you will achieve. The light will come, no matter how far away it seems.

Anyway, that’s enough motivation from me, here’s the list:

1. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren’t in your favour – Elon Musk
2. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows
3. The best thing I ever did was believe in myself
4. Today’s pain will be tomorrow’s strength
5. To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe
6. If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you’re really not ready to be successful
7. Have goals so big, you get uncomfortable telling small-minded people
8. I can. I will. End of story
9. Remember, the ones who said you couldn’t do it are watching
10. If you can’t handle stress, then you can’t manage success
11. When you know clearly what you want, you’ll wake up every morning excited about life
12. Do what you love, and you will never have a problem with Monday
13. You’re not meant to do what is easy, you’re meant to challenge yourself
14. Just keep showing up when most people would quit
15. There are no secrets to success, it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure
16. You may see me struggle, but you will never see me quit
17. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
18. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this World, those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed
19. It’s never too late to become what you might have been
20. Failure is part of the process, quitting is not
21. The best way to succeed is to help others succeed, they will carry you to success
22. 97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up
23. Stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion
24. 3 steps to success, set a goal, work like hell, stay consistent
25. If you are going through hell, keep going
26. Entrepreneur: Someone who jumps off a cliff and learns how to build a plane on the way down
27. They won’t get it. Your path is your path, it’s only for you to understand
28. I’m coming for everything they said I couldn’t have
29. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it
30. You have to fight through the bad days to earn the best days in your life
31. I will succeed, because I am willing to fail more times than you are willing to try
32. When you realise you have nothing to lose, you’ll turn into a beast
33. Don’t stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare
34. If an expert says it cannot be done, get another expert
35. Don’t get discouraged, it is often the last key that opens the lock
36. The road to success is often a lonely one
37. Don’t be afraid of being different. Be afraid of being the same as everyone else
38. Surround yourself with people who are only going to lift you higher
39. Build a life you won’t want to take a vacation from
40. Ignore the noise, stay focused
41. Life is about making an impact, not making an income
42. You miss 100% of the shots you do not take
43. 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 – Michael Jordan
44. We become what we think about – Earl Nightingale
45. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover – Mark Twain
46. Life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to this
47. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now
48. 80% of success is showing up – Woody Allen
49. I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions
50. You can never cross the ocean until you have courage to lose sight of the shore – Christopher Columbus
51. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right – Henry Ford
52. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why – Mark Twain
53. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
54. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily – Zig Ziglar
55. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage
56. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing – Aristotle
57. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you – Jesus
58. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined
59. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me
60. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear
61. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light – Plato
62. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life – John Lennon
63. Fall seven times and stand up eight
64. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us – Helen Keller
65. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see – Confucius
66. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world – Anne Frank
67. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be – Lao Tzu
68. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions – Dalai Lama
69. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on
70. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end – Aristotle
71. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars
72. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground
73. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears
74. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful
75. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do – Leonardo Da Vinci
76. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless
77. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do
78. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong – Benjamin Franklin
79. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure – Bill Cosby
80. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new – Albert Einstein
81. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings
82. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money
83. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs
84. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at
85. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough – Oprah Winfrey
86. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck – Dalai Lama
87. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have
88. Dream big and dare to fail
89. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have
90. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten – Tony Robbins
91. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning
92. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live
93. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try
94. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent
95. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be
96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it – Henry Ford
97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years
98. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing – Benjamin Franklin
99. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”
100. The only way to do great work is to love what you do – Steve Jobs
101. Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want
102. One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don’t feel like doing it
103. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude
104. Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone
105. Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will
106. I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself
107. Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it
108. When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!
109. Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop
110. Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?
111. We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless
112. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections
113. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending
114. When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say
115. Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools
116. Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1

I hope you have enjoyed these motivational quotes and take from them what you need to keep on the course to achieving your own dreams.

My favourite has to be the definition of an entrepreneur – as someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. It signifies taking action, and learning/adapting as you go.

If you have any more to add, please use the comments below.