100+ Famous Motto Quotes That Inspire Millions Worldwide

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau

"Know thyself." – Socrates

"I think, therefore I am." – René Descartes

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"No man ever steps in the same river twice." – Heraclitus

"Man is the measure of all things." – Protagoras

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." – Seneca

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." – Seneca

"What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about." – Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge." – Simon Sinek

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." – John C. Maxwell

"Power is not given to you. You have to take it." – Beyoncé

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." – Ronald Reagan

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." – John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." – Seth Godin

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are." – John C. Maxwell

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

"Love makes a short absence long, and a long absence brief." – Jean Paul

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." – Haruki Murakami

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." – Victor Hugo

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day." – Unknown

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." – Maya Angelou

"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return." – Margaret Mitchell

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

"Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." – Rikki Rogers

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult

"Adversity introduces a man to himself." – Albert Einstein

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." – African Proverb

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." – Maya Angelou

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." – Albert Einstein

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense." – Pablo Picasso

"To create one must be willing to be scrawny, to accept uncertainty and play." – Chuck Jones

"Art challenges technology; technology inspires the art." – John Lasseter

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"The creative adult is the child who survived." – Ursula K. Le Guin

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." – Albert Einstein

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." – Neil Gaiman

"Don’t panic. Be playful. Try things. Don’t spend your time waiting for inspiration. Act the way you’d act if you were inspired, and the rest will come." – Austin Kleon

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." – Edwin Land

"Every artist was first an amateur." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." – Sylvia Plath

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey

"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown

"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure." – Unknown

"I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode." – Unknown

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." – Steven Wright

"I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome." – Unknown

"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised." – Denis Leary

"My memory’s not as sharp as it used to be. Also, I can’t remember anything." – Carl Reiner

"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it." – Unknown

"I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay." – Unknown

"If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success." – Unknown

"I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination." – Unknown

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." – Buddha

"You are enough just as you are." – Meghan Markle

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." – Samuel Johnson

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius

"Becoming is better than being." – Carol Dweck

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing." – Unknown

"Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses." – Nathaniel Branden

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." – Peter T. Mcintyre

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind." – Dr. Seuss

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." – Rumi

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar

"Less is more." – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." – Leonardo da Vinci

"Live simply so that others may simply live." – Gandhi

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." – Anne Lamott

"Focus on being productive instead of busy." – Tim Ferriss

"Do more with less." – Buckminster Fuller

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." – Hans Hofmann

"Enough is a feast." – Buddhist Proverb

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Your home should serve you, not own you." – Joshua Becker

"Declutter your mind, space, and schedule." – Unknown

"Simplicity is making the journey inward." – Alan Redpath

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." – Ethiopian Proverb

"A tree is known by its fruit, a person by their deeds." – Swahili Proverb

"One who asks is a fool for five minutes, but one who does not ask remains a fool forever." – Chinese Proverb

"It takes a village to raise a child." – African Proverb

"The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet tall." – Korean Proverb

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." – Confucius

"Even a small candle can dispel a lot of darkness." – Sanskrit Proverb

"A good word is as easily spoken as a bad one." – Spanish Proverb

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." – Henri Bergson (France)

"He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything." – Arabian Proverb

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." – Russian Proverb

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." – English Proverb