Quotes often open your eyes and the mind to understand truths and acknowledge things you
otherwise would have missed.
They let you see life from another, wider perspective, and in this sense, they expand
the mind and the awareness.
Here are the 30 powerful quotes that you need to hear to motivate you.
It’s Your unlocked Potential, and let’s go!
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Before we get into the 30 quotes, I just want to say that after share all 30 of the most powerful quotes,
I will talk about the scientific reasons why quotes can actually make us feel motivated.
So make sure you stay all the way until the end to understand why.
If you get bored in the middle with all the quotes, then feel free to just skip through
them or to the reasons why quotes work.
Alright, with that out of the way, here’s the first quote.
Number one
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by
the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade
winds in your sails.
Explore, Dream, Discover.
by Mark Twain
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now.
–Chinese Proverb
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
–Confucius
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
–Benjamin Franklin
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
–Charles Swindoll
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
–Buddha
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
–Henry Ford
An unexamined life is not worth living.
–Socrates
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
–Roger Staubach
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half
as much money.
–Abigail Van Buren
I am not a product of my circumstances.
I am a product of my decisions.
–Stephen Covey
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
–Maya Angelou
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
–Norman Vincent Peale
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
–Anais Nin
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
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
–Aristotle
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
–Henry David Thoreau
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single
bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
–Erma Bombeck
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
–Theodore Roosevelt
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it.
–Henry Ford
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
–John Lennon
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed
door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
–Helen Keller
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
–Confucius
How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve
the world.
–Anne Frank
Happiness is not something readymade.
It comes from your own actions.
–Dalai Lama
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our
breath away.
–Maya Angelou
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must
be attained.
–Marie Curie
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
–Joshua J. Marine
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
–Chinese Proverb
Bonus: The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
–Ayn Rand
Now, as promised.
Here are the 3 scientific reasons why quotes motivate us.
Starting with the first reason – it is because of the power of language
Words are powerful, and the way it is presented can be even more powerful.
In fact, phrasing an idea in an elegant, succinct, or eloquent manner can have strong impact
on our understanding of certain matter.
A 2000 study by cognitive scientists at Lafayette College found that when people were shown
two statements of the same pithy saying, study participants were more likely to say the rhyming
aphorism seemed true.
For example, a famous quote by Napoleon is “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and
believe, it can achieve”.
Now, doesn’t that make you feel more motivated or inspired? Perhaps it's because it rhymes.
The choice of word also matters.
There are many ways (especially in the English language) to say the same thing, but one can
be more pleasing or convincing than the other.
The use of other literary devices such as metaphor, imagery, simile, hyperbole etc.
can make the quotes even more compelling.
For example, the popular quote that goes “Everyone is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid”. This quote would be far less powerful or evocative if it stopped after
the first sentence.
Second reason - the Coaching factor
Generally, quotes are said by people who have succeeded in some ways or the other.
They have the authority to teach, coach, bestow knowledge, share their experience through words.
These experiences and knowledge can then be condensed into a few sentences – which makes
it seem all the more powerful and educational.
It is also because of this, we are able to see quotes from multiple perspectives.
We then receive a powerful feeling when we have received this concentrated gem of knowledge.
Words from recognized leaders in business, politics, and the arts may also hold more
gravitas because of the assumption that when people are in public positions, they must
be accomplished, wise, or otherwise exceptional to have achieved those positions.
Those perceptions can make messages from such leaders more powerful.
Reason number 3 – We WANT to be motivated
Experts of media psychology and communications consultant Scott Sobel said that “humans are aspirational."
We want to look up to role models and leaders and follow what they ask,” he says.
“Leaders and their words–inspirational quotes–affect us on a primal level.”
For people open to their message, well-structured messages that use strong imagery and appeal
to our aspirational nature can be meaningful and powerful in changing our thinking and
helping us see something in ourselves that we want to change or overcome.
And sometimes, we all just need that little push for us to get us out of our comfort zone.
With that, I want to ask you the question.
Which one was your favourite quote out of the 30?
And WHY it was your favourite.
Lemme know in the comment section down below.
I look forward to hearing your opinion.
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Keep on improving and keep on learning.
I will see you all next Sunday.
Cheers!
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