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81 Powerful Motivational Mindset Quotes for Success

August 26, 2020 by Suzanne

This post was last updated on February 18th, 2021 at 01:05 pm

These motivational mindset quotes will help you take charge of your life and set you up for success.

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1 These motivational mindset quotes will help you take charge of your life and set you up for success.
1.1 What is a motivational mindset?
1.2 Here are the best 75 motivational mindset quotes to inspire you to take charge:
1.3 Motivational mindset books that will inspire you:
1.4 Motivational mindset videos to inspire you:
1.5 I hope these motivational mindset tools will help you be successful and give you the drive to achieve your goals.

What is a motivational mindset?

A motivated mindset is a positive and goal-oriented mindset that is fueled by a desire to succeed.

Motivation is the desire you have to do something that’s important to you.  It’s what inspires you to wake up before dawn and work hard towards a goal you have.

A motivated mindset can help you succeed because you will have the drive to accomplish even the most difficult tasks through hard work, positive thinking, goal setting, and discipline.

It’s important to set goals, and find what your motivation is – because with the right mindset and ambition, you will be able to push through and continue to work hard every day, even in the toughest of circumstances.

Some great tools to help you on your path to success: are to read personal development books, join a motivating community (you can find like-minded people on Twitter and Instagram), watch motivational videos, and to continue to remember motivational quotes like the ones below during your journey.

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Here are the best 75 motivational mindset quotes to inspire you to take charge:

  1. “Nothing will slow your progress like a negative mindset.”
  2. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.” – Steve Maraboli
  3. “If you are born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it’s your mistake.” – Bill Gates
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  4. “Most people go broke for their kids but they won’t go rich.”
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  5. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” – Tom Hanks
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  6. “From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.” – Tom Hanks
  7. “The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.” – Wilfred A. Peterson
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  8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
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  9. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
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  10. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
  11. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  12. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo
  13. “Poor people say, “I can’t afford. I can’t do that. I don’t have time.” It’s an escape. It’s easy to say I can’t afford it. “Oh, I’m tired.” “Oh, I can’t go to the gym.” When you could go to the gym. The truth is, you’re just too lazy to go to the gym.”
  14. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
  15. “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
  16. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” – Tony Robbins
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  17. “Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.” – Arthur Rubenstein
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  18. “You can always do more than you think you can.” – John Wooden
  19. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
  20. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” – Les Brown
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  21. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler
  22. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” – Michael Jordan
  23. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
  24. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie
  25. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
  26. “It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that’s why there’s not a lot of super duper successful people, because it’s guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don’t work as hard.” – Rico Love
  27. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” – Buddha
  28. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
  29. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
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  30. “The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” – Mozart
  31. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
  32. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now.” – Nolan Bushnell
  33. “It’s not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
  34. “Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.” – Sean Covey
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  35. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
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  36. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
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  37. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
  38. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
  39. “My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.” – Sara Blakely
  40. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Ben Franklin
  41. “We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” – Max Depree
  42. “Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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  43. “If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.” – Kobe Bryant
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  44. “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Late on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” – Hebrews 12:11
  45. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”
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  46. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
  47. “There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
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  48. “To get what you want in life you must develop the ability to think in the way
    that will support your goals and dreams.” – Denise J. Hart
  49. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
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  50. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” – Roy T. Bennett
  51. “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he should be, and he will become what he could be.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  52. “I’m sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on.  But I never understood that concept.  If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything.  I want to fall forward.” – Denzel Washington
  53. “Without consistency, you will never finish.  So do what you feel passionate about.  Take chances.  Don’t be afraid to fail.” – Denzel Washington
  54. “Don’t be afraid to think outside the box. Don’t be afraid to fail big.  To dream big.  But remember – dreams without goals are just dreams.”  – Denzel Washington
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  55. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
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  56. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
  57. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
  58. “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.” – Elon Musk
  59. “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” -Elon Musk
  60. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.” – Elon Musk
  61. “Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. This improves the odds of success.” – Elon Musk
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  62. “People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.” – Elon Musk
  63. “Persistence is very important. you should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” Elon Musk
  64. “Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.” – Elon Musk
  65. “People work better when they know what the goal is and why.” – Elon Musk
  66. “I’d rather be optimistic and wrong, than pessimistic and right.” – Elon Musk
  67. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.” – Will Smith
  68. “And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.” – Will Smith
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  69. “There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.” – Will Smith
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  70. “The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.” – Will Smith
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  71. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.” – Will Smith
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  72. “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, than you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people’s lives better.” – Will Smith
  73. “I want the world to be better because I was here.” – Will Smith
  74. “If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.” – Will Smith
  75. “The first step is you have to say that you can.” – Will Smith
  76. “Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It’s something that truly exists, in, all of us. It’s very simple, this is what I believe, and, I’m willing to die for it. Period. It’s that simple.” – Will Smith
  77. “Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.” – Will Smith
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  78. “99% is the same as zero. If you are gonna do 99, go ahead and stay home.” – Will Smith
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  79. “You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s every been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.” – Will Smith
  80. “Look at your 5 closest friends. Those 5 friends are who you are. If you don’t like who you are then you know what you have to do.” – Will Smith
  81. “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.” – Will Smith

 

We hope these motivational mindset quotes will inspire you to change your life.  Check out the following books and videos that may also help you stay motivated.

Motivational mindset books that will inspire you:

         

          

 

Motivational mindset videos to inspire you:

 

 

 

I hope these motivational mindset tools will help you be successful and give you the drive to achieve your goals.

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