30 Phrases To Awaken Your Motivation

Is today one of those days when you can’t find inspiration to achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself? Do not be alarmed. If you want to wake up your motivation, here are these 30 motivational phrases that will help you get out of any pothole almost instantly.

And it is that sometimes, no matter how motivated we usually feel,  we can have moments when nothing seems to be enough. In these moments, there is nothing like taking a deep breath and reading phrases or texts that help us reconnect with what is really important to us.

Wisdom to awaken your motivation

The first 14 sentences can help you put yourself in the shoes of famous or influential people in history who achieved great things even when they seemed to have everything against them. Don’t just read them and switch from one to the other automatically. Read a sentence, close your eyes, think about its meaning and how it could affect your life. Read them, internalize them and you can apply them in your daily life.

1. “Don’t wait; there will never be the opportune moment.  It begins anywhere, by whatever means you may have at your disposal that you will find along the way ”. Napoleon Bonaparte.

2. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs.

3. “Strive not only to be successful, but rather to be of value. ” Albert Einstein.

4. “In a forest two roads diverged, and I… I took the one less traveled by. This made all the difference”. Robert Frost.

5. “The common question asked in business is, why? This is a good question, but it is equally valid: why not? ”. Jeffrey Bezos.

6. “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. That is why I was successful. ” Michael Jordan.

7. “Clarity of purpose is the starting point of all success.” W. Clement Stone.

8. ” Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.” John Lennon.

9. “We become what we think.” Earl Nightingale.

10. “ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by what you did. Then raise the anchor, leave the safe harbor, catch the favorable winds in your sails. Explore. It sounds”. Mark Twain.

11. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what is your reaction to things that happen.” John Maxwell.

12. ” If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got. ” Tony Robbins.

13. “Fools wait for the lucky day, but every day is lucky.” Buddha

14. “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; The second best moment is now”. Chinese proverb.

More inspirational quotes

Do you need even more material to spark your motivation?  So, read and internalize these other great phrases.

15. ” An unexamined life is not worth living. ” Socrates.

16. “Today better than yesterday, tomorrow better than today.” Japanese proverb.

17. “I am not a product of my situation. I am a product of my decisions. ” Stephen Covey.

18. “ Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up ”. Pablo Picasso.

19. “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.” Christopher Columbus.

20. “I’ve learned that people will forget what they said, what they did, but they will never forget how they felt.” Maya Angelou.

21. “We can have more than we have, since we can become more than we are. ” Jim Rohn.

22. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. ” Henry Ford.

23. “The two most important days in your life is the day you are born and the day you discover what you were born for.” Mark Twain.

24. “Any dream can be dreamed. Audacity arises if genius, magic and power begin now ”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

25. “Man is a student and pain is his teacher.” Mahatma Gandhi.

26. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, the same thing happens with showers, that’s why we take them every day ”. Zig Ziglar.

27. ” Inspiration exists, but you have to find it at work. ” Pablo Picasso.

28. “If an inner voice does not stop repeating to you: ‘you will never be able to paint’, then dedicate yourself to painting with everything you have, and you will see that that voice will be silenced.” Vincent van Gogh.

29. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ” Aristotle.

30. “Obstacles are those awful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. ” Henry Ford.

31. “Man never knows what he is capable of until he tries.” Charles Dickens.

32. “Don’t wake up to do what you don’t want, wake up to chase your dreams.” Anonymous.

33. “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most ”. Buddha.

34. “ Today is a new day. Even if you did it wrong yesterday, today you can do it well. Dwight Howard.

35. “Start your day with a smile and you will see how much fun it is to be out of tune with everyone.” Mafalda.

36. “When you get up in the morning, remember how lucky you are, to be alive, to be able to breathe, to think and to enjoy your life.” Marcus Aurelius.

37. “To be successful you will have to accept all the challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ” Mike Gafka.

38. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s next attractions.” Albert Einstein.

39. ” The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ” Lao Tzu.

40. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney.

41. ” You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. ” Beverly sills

42. “Many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” Les Brown.

43. “It is never too late to be what you could have been.” George Eliot.

44. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless. ” Jamie Paolinetti.

45. “Don’t worry about failing, worry about the chances you lose when you don’t even try.” Jack Canfield.

Final reflection

Motivational quotes, while not going to change your life on their own, can help you in times when everything seems too difficult. Reading them can be an easy way to help yourself and spark your motivation.

Sometimes a phrase can hit the right key and help us move forward. How many times have we read something that has shaken us inside? And it didn’t have to be a self-help book or a long paragraph. Sometimes we need something direct, simple. An inspirational phrase can be like an injection that provides us with the exact medication. Accurate, concise, powerful and that goes where we need it most.

Remember, think about what each of these sentences implies. Close your eyes and see if something moves inside you. If you notice even a small shake inside, that phrase was for you. Leave the conditionings and voices of others aside, and allow it to penetrate you like a drop of water penetrates the rock. Let it permeate you. If you do it well, you will notice how your motivation returns little by little.