Who are you inspired by?
Family? Friends? Industry Experts? Entrepreneurs?
We all have our own sources of motivation that spur us on to work that little bit harder and achieve that little bit more...
But what motivates and inspires the multi-billionaires and super-successful businesspeople of the world?
More importantly, what inspires Winnie the Pooh?
Find out for yourself with our list of 50 fantastically motivational famous quotes to inspire you this Friday!
Entrepreneurs
Famous Quote 1. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” Mark Zuckerberg
Famous Quote 2. "Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else." Sara Blakely
Famous Quote 3. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." Henry Ford
Famous Quote 4. "Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me." Arianna Huffington
Famous Quote 5. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” Steve Jobs
Famous Quote 6. "Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success." Martha Stewart
Famous Quote 7. "If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward" Richard Branson
Famous Quote 8. "If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." Larry Page
Famous Quote 9. "If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just." Anita Roddick
Famous Quote 10. "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." David Ogilvy
If you'd like to find out more inspirational quotes from super-successful entrepreneurs, check out this fantastic article from Entrepreneur.com
Disney
Famous Quote 11. "When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming!" Dory, Finding Nemo
Famous Quote 12. "Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.” Aladdin, Aladdin
Famous Quote 13. “Some people are worth melting for.” Olaf, Frozen
Famous Quote 14. "If everybody were like everybody else, how boring it would be. The things that make me different are the things that make me, Me!" Piglet and Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh
Famous Quote 15. “You’re mad, bonkers, off your head! But I’ll tell you a secret: all the best people are." Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Famous Quote 16. "I don't want to survive. I want to live." The Captain, Wall-E
Famous Quote 17. "You're never too old to be young" Snow White, Snow White
Famous Quote 18. "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all" The Emperor, Mulan
Famous Quote 19. "Always let your conscience be your guide!" The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio
Famous Quote 20. "If you can DREAM, you can DO it" Walt Disney
Surprised by Disney's inspiring quotes? Click here, here or here to discover more!
Historical Figures
Famous Quote 21. "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm" Winston Churchill
Famous Quote 22. "I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all." Catherine the Great
Famous Quote 23. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" Confucius
Famous Quote 24. "We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams
Famous Quote 25. "The best way to predict the future is to create it" Abraham Lincoln
Famous Quote 26. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" Audrey Hepburn
Famous Quote 27. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him" Galileo Galilei
Famous Quote 28. "Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves." Queen Victoria
Famous Quote 29. "Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn" Benjamin Franklin
Famous Quote 30. "I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." Florence Nightingale
BrainyQuote is a fantastic browsing tool for hunting down the most motivational quotes from throughout the ages.
The Silver Screen
Famous Quote 31. "Do, or do not. There is no try" Yoda, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Famous Quote 32. "We're gonna live. Like we're telling the best story in the whole world.?" Penelope Stamp, The Brothers Bloom
Famous Quote 33. “My momma always said, 'life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get'.” Forrest, Forrest Gump
Famous Quote 34. "But it ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward." Rocky, Rocky Balboa
Famous Quote 35. "Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever." Charles Xavier, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Famous Quote 36. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Famous Quote 37. "Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." Christopher Morcom, The Imitation Game
Famous Quote 38. "You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours." The White Queen, Alice in Wonderland
Famous Quote 39. "There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope." Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
Famous Quote 40. "Don't tell me I can't do it; don't tell me it can't be done!" Howard Hughes, The Aviator
Are you a real film buff? Check out this article from Lifehack. Do YOU agree with their 25 most inspirational movie quotes?
Creative Writers
(Well, it is pretty much their job to inspire...)
Famous Quote 41. "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it" Katharine Whitehorn
Famous Quote 42. "I'm either going to be a writer or a bum" Carl Sandburg
Famous Quote 43. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life” J.K Rowling
Famous Quote 44. "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." Ernest Hemingway
Famous Quote 45. "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on" Sheryl Sandberg
Famous Quote 46. "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King
Famous Quote 47. "I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life" Maya Angelou
Famous Quote 48. "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first" Mark Twain
Famous Quote 49. "It is never too late to be what you might have been" George Eliot
Famous Quote 50. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller
Creative writers were born to inspire others... as this article from Writers Digest proves!
Feeling inspired?
We hope so!
If you're more interested in inspiring your employees (and you don't think plastering these quotes across the walls will help!) check out this article: The 9 secrets to getting employees to genuinely care about your business…
The only way to truly get your staff motivated is to get them to love your business!
Recruiter Tip. This week, we've been sharing the love with some of our fellow recruiters and HR experts across the web... spreading the word about their inspirational blogs! For more info, check out these posts...
- 10 Inspiring Blogs To Help Boost Your Career for ambitious entrepreneurs and job seekers.
- 10 Reputable Blogs That All HR Managers Should Be Subscribed To for HR Managers, recruiters and anyone who's genuinely interested in business.
Reputable, interesting and honest, we hope that they inspire you as much as they inspire us.
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Happy Friday.
Have an inspirational week!
