20 Top Motivational Quotes to Inspire You to Greater Determination and Perseverance

1. "Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong." --Peter T. McIntyre

2."Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Sarah Frances Brown

1. "When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. --Karen E. Quinones Miller

2. "Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it." --Bryce Courtenay

3. "When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't." --Jodi Picoult

4. "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." --Wayne Dyer

5. "Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions...do your thing, and don't care if they like it." --Tina Fey

6. "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you." --William Jennings Bryan

7. "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." --Vincent van Gogh

8. "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less-than-perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful." --Mark Victor Hansen

9. "Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better." --Barrie Davenport

10. "Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it." --Bruce Lee

11. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." --Golda Meir

12. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." --Arthur Ashe

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

14. "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

15. "Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." --Richard Bach

16. "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich

17. "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." --Thomas Alva Edison