18 Inspirational Quotes to Keep You Motivated Through the Day

A key aspect of staying motivated is creating a mental and physical space that is healthy, efficient, and stable. As lockdowns continue everywhere, this becomes especially hard because one’s normal life is constantly disrupted. Everybody needs a little pick me up now and then, and when there’s no one around, a few wise words from great people can do the trick quite successfully.  

From Abraham Lincoln to Michael Jordan, here is a list of the 18 most motivational quotes from inspiring personalities that will definitely keep you going through a midday slump!

1. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

2. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

3. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”― Abraham Lincoln

4. “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown

5. “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ― K’wan

6. “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

7. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

8. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

9. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

10. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer

11. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Henry David Thoreau

12. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. — Josiah Gilbert Holland

13. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” –Dale Carnegie

14. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

15. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King

17. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Do not let a bad day or difficult circumstances pull you down. Be your own person, keep your head up and you always have these famous quotes to pull you through a tough time.