10 Motivational Quotes to Start Your Day

"You can do it!"

When's the last time someone said that to you? In the daily grind, you might not always receive words of motivation from your managers because they get pushed to the wayside as calls and meetings pile up.

So, think of this list as your personal cheerleader. It's ready to help start your day right and make it one you're proud of.

Today, you'll succeed in connecting with that hard-to-reach prospect. Today, you'll close that complex deal. Today, you'll go from being a good manager to a great one.

Motivational Quotes of the Day:

You are confined only by walls you build yourself.

A wall that keeps you insulated from feeling life fully. A wall that keeps space between you and authentic relationships (romance, friends, family, etc.) so no one ever has the opportunity to hurt you (or so you think). A wall of self-taught lies about what you are and are not capable of. A wall of perception colored by worst-case scenarios. A wall of unrelenting fear.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort.

When you set your goals, you should always follow the Goal Getting plan of defining the What, The How and The Why. Knowing you're why, the reason you are doing what you are doing is what will keep you going when you want to stop, when you want to give up your dream. Always Remember Why You started and you will be able to keep going.

Don't stop until you're proud.

Don’t stop until you can say I did this. Don’t quit unit you can shout to the world I did this amazing thing, all on my own. Pour everything into it, whatever it is; your time, your dedication, your effort, and one hundred and ten percent of your focus. Don’t stop until you can say that the thing you have been working on so hard and for so long, it’s here. Because that day, that amazing and glorious day that you can finally say I did it, it will come. Without a doubt. It won’t come easy, and it won’t come cheap, but it will show up if you are doing everything within your power to just keep going. Keep going until the miracle happens. Just keep going and it will come. Don’t do it for anybody but you; for your hopes and your dreams and your goal.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Competing is really not for everyone. Everyone who competes will have a different reason for wanting to step on to that stage. For the past year, I have grappled with why even compete because to have the mindset of an athlete isn't easy, it costs money, it requires immense commitment, being smart with managing yourself and it can be lonely as not everyone will understand. With every competition, there are different goals.

Passion first and everything will fall into place.

Passion is the energy that keeps us going, that keeps us filled with meaning, and happiness, and excitement, and anticipation. Passion is a powerful force in accomplishing anything you set your mind to, and in experiencing work and life the fullest extent possible. Ultimately, passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives. I'm also passionate about quotes, and the power of quotes to inspire people. So, I thought I'd share my favorite quotes about passion with you. I share quotes like these with my team all the time. May these quotes inspire you to live a better life, and may they inspire those you share them with as well.

Focus on your goal. Don't look in any direction but ahead.

Do you struggle with reaching your goals? The reality is that most people do struggle. When you set goals for yourself, you undoubtedly have the very best of intentions. You want to succeed with your goals and reap the many benefits that come with making successful and important changes in your life. However, there is something that you may fail to account for in your goal planning i.e. life itself. Just when you are ready to take the necessary actions and make those vital changes; life gets in the way and you are unable to remain focused on your goals. If you cannot remain focused on your goals, you will lose momentum and fail to make the progress you desire. This soon leads to a loss of confidence and motivation.

If you feel like giving up, just look back on how far you are already.

Giving up is easy. We all know that. Anything that’s worthwhile is going to take an enormous amount of work. Still, that thought doesn’t alleviate our minds when we feel like giving up. When we feel like all hope is lost and that nothing in the world seems to be working out for us, what are we supposed to do? How do we battle the sleepless nights and the restless days? If you’ve been faced with a hopeless situation, or you’re going through one right now, you know all too well how it feels to be fighting a seemingly uphill battle. Often, when we’ve reached the end of our respective ropes when nothing seems to be working in our favor, it’s easy to just say “I quit,” or “I give up,” and to storm off shouting, “Never again!”Looking back on failed attempts at achieving something, we can often see where we could have worked longer, smarter, harder, and been more persistent. We can easily identify where we should have put in that extra effort when we knew it was needed most. But, instead, we gave up. We decided to call it quits and be finished with it rather than persist another day.

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.

Often, when you need to grow you first have to be painfully hurt. But life’s vital lessons are normally learned through pain. Your present situation is just ephemeral. This world teems with pain, but when you have hope and God on your side, you will keep going. The tears you are shedding now are just temporary catharsis of grief, sorrow and pain you are undergoing. Take heart since eventually, the Almighty is going to wipe away every tear. Strength comes from where there has been a pain. Sadness precedes wisdom. Your renewal will be as a result of fear you went through at some point in your life. Listen to your friends, since having a good one is the best insurance in life.

Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

It will take as long as we prolong the process by our own impatience and instant gratifications of the flesh. The time will come when we are spiritually, psychologically and emotionally ready to receive it. By “the perfect time” is meant the appropriate time and the appointed time after you have exercised patience. This is not easy for some people to understand in a world that is now characterized by impatience. Everything you need and want will come to you exactly at the time when you’ve invested enough time and effort to get it. Nothing will come to you by itself. There is no universal energy, there is no destiny. There are only people who deserve stuff and people who don’t. Work for it and you’re going to get it, don’t be naive and buy into pictures like that.

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to you those who go out and get them.

The saying goes, “good things come to those who wait,” meaning have patience and the best will be yet to come. Patience is, in fact, virtue and something we should all practice, but there’s something about waiting that denotes a refrain from action. And in the world of business, being passive is the last thing you must be. Yes, patience can bring you wonderful things, but in business, it could merely be the leftovers of what you could have had with the right amount of hustle.