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Motivational Captions to Brighten Your Day

 1. “All success starts with self-discipline. It starts with you.” – Dwayne Johnson

 2. “The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo

 3. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

 4. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 5. “Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?” – David Goggins

 6. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll

 7. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

 8. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

 9. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napolean Hill

10. “You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.” – Oprah Winfrey

11. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins

12. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paul Coelho

13. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks

14. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball

15. “There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” – Tony Robbins

16. “Spread love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa

17. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

18. “People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky. They’re doing something differently than everyone else.” – Tony Robbins

19. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale

20. “‘Tomorrow’ becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now.” – Tim Ferriss

21. “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy

MOTIVATIONAL CAPTIONS ABOUT LIFE

22. “Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself: ‘what do I want to do every day for the rest of my life’? Do THAT.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

23. “The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

24. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

25. “Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.” – David Goggins

26. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

27. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Tim Ferriss

28. “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” – Brian Vaszily

29. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” – William Arthur Wald

30. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

31. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John Rockefeller

32. “Work hard in silence. Let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean

33. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Gandhi

34. “Courage is contagious. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around is a little better and the world a little braver.” – Brené Brown

35. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Jordan Peterson

36. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

37. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

38. “I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. When I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.” – Will Smith

39. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams (from ‘Dead Poets Society’)

40. “We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” – K’wan

41. “Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

42. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – J.F. Kennedy

43. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you want walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

44. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown

45. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.” – David Goggins

46. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi

47. “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama

48. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain

49. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

More Motivational Captions

50. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – William W. Purkey

51. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

52. “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” – Socrates

53. “Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

54. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

55. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

56. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” – Anne Frank

57. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

58. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

59. “Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

60. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

61. “If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali

62. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

63. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

64. “Life’s most persistent and important questions is: ‘what are you doing for others?’” – Martin Luther King Jr.

65. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” – Gandhi

66. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

67. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” – Joss Whedon

68. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paul Coelho

69. “The hard days are what make you stronger.” – Aly Raisman

70. “I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.” – Brené Brown

71. “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” – Deepak Chopra

72. “If you sincerely want to change your life, raise your standards. What changes people is when their ‘shoulds’ turn to ‘musts’.” – Tony Robbins

73. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do in that moment that determines who you are.” – David Goggins

74. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

75. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

Additional Motivational Captions

76. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama

77. “What you do says what is more important to you. Action express priorities.” – Gandhi

78. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

79. “Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.” – Oprah Winfrey

80. “If you want to get better, do the things that no-one else wants to do. Do the things no-one is even thinking about doing.” – David Goggins

81. “The most important actions are never comfortable.” – Tim Ferriss

82. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi

83. “It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” – Sylvester Stallone (from Rocky Balboa)

84. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” – J.F. Kennedy

85. “Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.” – Eckhart Tolle

86. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi

87. “Being underestimated is the ultimate stimulant.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

88. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

89. “How wild it was, to let it be.” – Cheryl Strayed

90. “I’m realizing how much I’ve diminished my own power. I’m not doing that no more.” – Alicia Keys

91. “I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family, I want it to mean something.” – Will Smith

92. “The cynics may be the loudest voices. But I promise you, they will accomplish least.” – Barack Obama

93. “People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money you’re going to lose. You’re just going to. Even if you get the money, you’re not going to be happy.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

94. “Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.” – Beyoncé

95. “Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.” – Tim Ferriss

96. “We all have problems. But it’s not what happens to us, [it’s] the choices we make after.” – Elizabeth Smart

97. “If you want to get better, do the things that no-one else wants to do. Do the things no-one is even thinking about doing.” – David Goggins

98. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi

99. “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” – Deepak Chopra

100. “Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” – Dwayne Johnson

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