20 Motivational Quotes To Keep You Focused and Fearless

There’s no greater resource to find drive and motivation than the experience of others; the value of the wisdom from men who have experienced the best and worst life has to offer can not be understated.

Quotes from these influential figures can provide a vital shift in your perspective that you’ve been missing to unlock your full potential. Their teachings can also motivate you to finally start your journey of radical self-improvement, or guide you back on the path if you’ve fallen off.

Whatever your case may be, check out these twenty motivational quotes to get yourself going on whatever it is you need to get done.

"Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is."

NIPSEY HUSSLE

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

LANGSTON HUGHES

"One man with courage makes a majority."

ANDREW JACKSON

"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself."

MIYAMOTO MUSASHI

" Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go."

KANYE WEST

" There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."

RITA DOVE

" Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."

SUN TZU

" Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."

DR. MAE JEMISON

" Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great."

JAY-Z

" Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."

JULIUS CAESAR

" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

SOPHOCLES

" Climb the ladder to success escalator style."

NOTORIOUS B.I.G.

"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."

SCIPIO AFRICANUS

" Endure what is difficult to endure, and to suffer what is difficult to suffer."

HIROHITO

" My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself."

KENDRICK LAMAR

" Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat."

SHAKA

" Reality has its own power—you can turn your back on it, but it will find you in the end, and your inability to cope with it will be your ruin."

50 CENT

" If we always choose comfort, we never learn the deepest capabilities of our mind or body"

WIM HOF

" When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

TEDDY ROOSEVELT