Motivational Quotes - Top 100 Motivational Quotes
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
— Emma Goldman

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
— Mae West

"Mediocricy will never do. You are capable of something better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
— John Steinbeck

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

Motivational Quotes - Top 90 Motivational Quotes
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

"I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out."
— Michael Scott

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
— Robert Frost

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
— Winston Groom (Forrest Gump)

"Bella. Can you hear me?" "No. Go away."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

Motivational Quotes - Top 80 Motivational Quotes
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
— Mark Twain

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."
— Steven Wright

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?" "jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"How did it get so late so soon?"
— Dr. Seuss

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Motivational Quotes - Top 70 Motivational Quotes
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
— Abraham Lincoln

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I love you, it's a poor excuse for what I'm doing but it's true. -Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"You need a healthy dose of fear. Nothing could be more beneficial for you. - Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style"
— Maya Angelou

"Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

"Is this a kissing book?"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."
— Walt Disney Company

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

Motivational Quotes - Top 60 Motivational Quotes
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
— Mark Twain

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
— Robert Frost

"All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk."
— Lemony Snicket

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
— Maya Angelou

"Not my Daughter, you Bitch!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."
— Dr. Seuss

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
— Paulo Coelho

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
— Mark Twain

"...my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side..."
— Abraham Lincoln

Motivational Quotes - Top 50 Motivational Quotes
"Boy-"Do you truly think you care more for me than I do for you?" Girl-"Yes" Boy-"You're wrong"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes."
— Jack Handey

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
— Thomas Mann

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Seth, are you gonna get mad at me if I kill your sister?" He pretended to think about it for a minute. "Well...yeah, probably."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Mulan

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
— Jimi Hendrix

Motivational Quotes - Top 40 Motivational Quotes
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
— Charles M. Schulz

"Live simply so others may simply live."
— Mother Teresa

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
— Mark Twain

"Witch king: Fool. No man may can kill me! Eowyn: (pulls off helmet) I am no man! (kills him)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King)

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

"When you know better you do better."
— Oprah Winfrey

"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

Motivational Quotes - Top 30 Motivational Quotes
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
— Albert Einstein

"Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Way to Be! : 9 Rules For Living the Good Life)

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. "
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
— E.E. Cummings

"Give her hell from us, Peeves."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."
— Charles M. Schulz

"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
— Jon Stewart

Motivational Quotes - Top 20 Motivational Quotes
"You wanted me to be human,I reminded him. Well, watch me."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Is this a joke?" "Only if you think it's funny" (Volterra guard, Alice)"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
— Joseph Brodsky

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."
— Langston Hughes

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
— Leonard Bernstein

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."
— Terry Pratchett

"(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964) 'How do you find America?' 'Turn left at Greenland.'"
— Ringo Starr

"A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men."
— John August (3 Engel für Charlie)

Motivational Quotes - Top 10 Motivational Quotes
"Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising."
— Meg Cabot (Big Boned)

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
— Abraham Lincoln

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you."
— Maya Angelou

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
— Mark Twain

"I bet she's tougher than that...she runs with vampires."
— Stephenie Meyer

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

"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

"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday"
— Eleanor Roosevelt