As a writer, and just a human being in general, one thing that gives me a boost and keeps me motivated is a good quote! We all have those moments when we hear or read a good quote and we think to ourselves, "man, that was just what I needed to hear!"
Here is a list of 20 quotes to keep you inspired and to help you reach your potential:
- Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. - Michelle Obama
- Leaders become great, not because of their power, but their ability to empower others. - John Maxwell
- If you don’t know what you want, then you won’t have a passion for it and you won’t strive to be great at it. – Jon Gordon
- Keep away from your people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
- Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
- Always be yourself, because not much left in this world is unique, but you are. - Shannon Harris
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou
- In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It Goes On. – Robert Frost
- Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
- The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
- It’s not the will to win that matters…Everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. -Bear Bryant
- Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
- In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
- In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. - Jeff Bezos
- The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will. - Andy Warhol
- Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Elanor Roosevelt
- The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - Anonymous
- 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. - Ray Goforth
- I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman
