400+ Motivational Quotes for Freelancers of 2024

Sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated and reach our potential as freelancers: we may face solitude, challenges in delivering, challenges in finding and retaining clients. In a few words, we may lose confidence in ourselves and in our ability to work productively. Motivational quotes can help you as a freelancer or self-employed to push and motivate yourself.

You may think that words are not helpful but the reality is that the right words can trigger an action and a reaction, and that’s why motivational quotes can be particularly important in certain moments of our lives.

In this article, I have collected a crazy amount of motivational quotes (400+!) to help you reach your potential; they will give you the jumpstart your daily needs, and they will help you overcome problems and fatigue.

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You may also be interested in this article on How to Improve your Skills as a Freelancer and this article on How to Improve your Leadership Skills as a Freelancer.

400 Best Motivational Quotes to Fuel Your Day

This massive lists include the best motivational quotes for freelancers and also the best motivational quotes for every person in need of a kick to boost their day.

1. Best motivational quotes for freelancers

1. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
2. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
3. “Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” – Gabby Douglas
4. “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” – Summer Sanders
5. Don’t dream about success. Get out there and work for it.
6. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
7. You can cry, scream, and bang your head in frustration but keep pushing forward. It’s worth it.
8. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
9. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
10. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
11. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
12. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
13. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
14. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash
15. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
16. “Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove
17. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
18. “I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” – Leah Busque
19. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
20. “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
21. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” – Joss Whedon
22. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love as you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
23. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”― Neil Gaiman
24. “Everything you can imagine is real.”― Pablo Picasso
25. “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 which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller
26. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll
28. “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” – Socrates
29. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
31. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln
32. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn
33. “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” – Herb Brooks
34. “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” – Yuri Kochiyama
35. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot, and hang out.” – Abraham Lincoln
36. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
37. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
39. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
40. “I never lose. Either I win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela
41. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot
42. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
43. “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown
44. “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier
45. “You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” – Unknown
46. “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
47. “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche
48. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
49. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
50. “Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown
51. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
52. “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown
53. “Just another Magic Monday” – Unknown
54. “One day or day one. You decide.” – Unknown
55. “It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!” – Heather Stillufsen
56. “It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”― Marcus Zusak
57. “Goodbye, Blue Monday.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
58. “So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” ― Julio-Alexi Genao
59. “When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward
60. Monday c’est Mon Day
61. All Motivation Mondays needs are a little more coffee and a lot more mascara
62. I’m alive, motivated and ready to slay the day #MONSLAY
63. “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”― Jaymin Shah
64. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”― Abraham Lincoln
65. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”― Thomas Edison
66. “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. 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
67. “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” – Unknown
68. “Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap.” – Unknown
69. “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds
70. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
71. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban
72. “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” – Unknown
73. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
74. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
75. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer
76. “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
77. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
78. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
79. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh
80. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” – Simon Sinek
81. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ – A.C. Benson
82. “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” – Stanley McChrystal
83. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
84. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
85. “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
86. “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is.” – Unknown
87. When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.
88. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder
89. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah
90. “If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” – Susan Fales-Hill
91. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller
92. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” – Arabic Proverb
93. “The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra
94. “The hard days are what make you stronger.” – Aly Raisman
95. “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer
96. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
97. “You can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
98. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
99. “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama
100. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

1. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain
2. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
3. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean
4. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
5. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
6. “If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
7. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
8. “The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
9. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde
10. “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” – Benjamin Hardy
11. “Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” – Kamari aka Lyrikal
12. “Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle
13. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien
14. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” – John Wooden
15. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
16. ‘It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” – George Eliot
17. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
18. “Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” – Baz Luhrmann
19. “Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” – Unknown
20. “You can do anything you set your mind to.” – Benjamin Franklin
21. “All we can do is the best we can do.” – David Axelrod
22. “You never know what you can do until you try.” – William Cobbett
23. “Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.” – Mark Twain
24. “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa
25. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
26. “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith
27. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey
28. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
29. “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” – Unknown
31. “Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
32. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
33. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
34. You’re so much stronger than your excuses
35. Don’t compare yourself to others. Be like the sun and the moon and shine when it’s your time.
36. Don’t Quit
37. Don’t tell everyone your plans, instead show them your results.
38. “I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.” – Louise Hay
39. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
40. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
41. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton
42. “This is a reminder to you to create your own rule book, and live your life the way you want it.” – Reese Evans
43. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
44. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
45. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Unknown
46. “Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” – Unknown
47. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is 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
48. “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” – Garrison Keillor
49. “Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” – Unknown
50. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F Kennedy
51. “Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome.
52. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
53. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
54. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
55. “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” – Dr. Wayne D. Dyer
56. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
57. “What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” – Lionel from Maid in Manhattan Movie
58. H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.
59. Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden
60. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius
61. “Turn your wounds into wisdom” – Oprah
62. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
63. “Begin anywhere.” – John Cage
64. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Wayne W. Dyer
65. It’s okay to outgrow people who don’t grow. Grow tall anyways.
66. When you feel like giving up just remember that there are a lot of people you still have to prove wrong.
67. “The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one.” – Nishan Panwar
68. “Belief in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland
69. “A walk to a nearby park may give you more energy and inspiration in life than spending two hours in front of a screen.” – Tsang Lindsay
70. “If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.” – Tony Gaskins
71. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
72. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
73. “I can and I will. Watch me.” – Carrie Green
74. “You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.” ― Sarah J. Maas
75. “It is only when we take chances when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. – Walter Anderson
76. “The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” – William Arthur Ward
77. “When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.” – Unknown
78. “If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
80. “Once you do know what the question actually is, you’ll know what the answer means.”– Douglas Adams
81. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
82. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” – Pema Chodron
83. ‘We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.” – Bruce Lee
84. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
85. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson
86. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
87. “Work until your rivals become idols.” – Drake
88. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” – Unknown
89. “You must do the kind of things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
90. “It’s not what you do once in a while it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.” – Jenny Craig
91. “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” – Brian Vaszily
92. “Wealth isn’t about having a lot of money it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock
93. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.” – Derek Jeter
94. “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
95. “Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits, and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.” ― Roy T. Bennett
96. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” –Louise L Hay
97. “Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people.” – Tena Desae
98. “Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learning. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.” – Phillip Sweet
99. “You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.” – Ali Krieger
100. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson

1. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ― Stephen Hawking
2. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” ― Lady Gaga
3. “Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”― William Faulkner
4. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin
5. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”― Groucho Marx
6. “Never stop learning because life never stops teaching.” –Unknown
7. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” – Unknown
8. “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”– Brian Herbert
9. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”― Mark Twain
10. “To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.” – Chinese Proverb
11. “I’m still learning.” – Michelangelo
12. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
13. “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
14. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
15. “What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing.” – Jamie Foxx
16. “Quitters never win. Winners never quit!” Dr. Irene C. Kassorla
17. “It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.” – Charles A. Jaffe
18. “If there is no wind, row.” – Latin Proverb
19. “It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.” – Joyce Meyers
20. “If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.” – Milton Berle
21. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
22. “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
23. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
24. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
25. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
26. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
27. “Every night her thoughts weighed heavily on her soul but every morning she would get up and fight another day, every night she survived.” – R.H. Sin
28. “Still, I rise.” – Maya Angelou
29. “The best thing you can do is MASTER the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you ARE the fire.” – Mama Indigo
30. “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will too.” – Jennae Cecilia
31. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” – Paulo Coelho
32. “Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.” – Author Unknown
33. “It’s okay to be a glowstick: Sometimes we have to break before we shine.” – Jadah Sellner
34. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”― Mahatma Gandhi
35. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
36. “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
37. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
38. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
39. ― Leo Tolstoy
40. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
41. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”― Maya Angelou
42. “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone
43. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”― Rob Siltanen
44. “Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer.” – Sophia Amoruso
45. “Don’t be upset when people reject you. Nice things are rejected all the time by people who can’t afford them.” – Unknown
46. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
47. “There are two rules for success. 1: Never reveal everything you know.” – Roger H. Lincoln
48. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
49. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do” ― Pele
50. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.” – Tony Robbins
51. “Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all.” – Unknown
52. “The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo
53. “I want to be remembered as the one who tried.” – Dr. Dorothy Height
54. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” – Barack Obama
55. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
56. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.” – Tony Robbins
57. “Think like a Queen. A Queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah
58. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.” – Bruce Lee
59. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
60. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
61. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
62. “Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins?” – Komal Kapoor
63. “Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around.’” – Oprah Winfrey
64. Whenever you feel like a failure, just remember that even Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles their first year
65. “It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.” – Charles A. Jaffe
67. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns
68. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey
69. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”– Warren Buffett
70. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”– Henry David Thoreau
71. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.” ― Clare Boothe Luce
72. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” ― Jen Sincero
73. “You’re already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you’re trading your time for money. Frankly, it’s just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time.” – Tony Robbins
74. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”― Maya Angelou
75. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” –Jim Rohn
76. “How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe.” ― Matt Haig
77. “Time is what we want most and what we use worst.” – William Penn
78. “It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time.”― Rachael Bermingham
79. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
80. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare
81. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” –Buddha
82. “The greatest gift you could give someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life you can’t get back.” – Unknown
83. “Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.” ― Amit Kalantri
84. “Time always exposes what you mean to someone.” – Unknown
85. “After all this time? Always.” – J.K. Rowling
86. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
87. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
88. “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
89. “When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.” – Unknown
90. “A negative mind will never give you a positive life.” – Unknown
91. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” – Goethe
92. “At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo
93. “Whatever you do never run back to what broke you.” – Frank Ocean
94. “Take the risk or lose the chance.” – Unknown
95. “I didn’t learn to be quiet when I had an opinion. The reason they knew who I was is because I told them.” – Ursula Burns
96. “Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days give you experience.” – Unknown
97. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
98. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett
99. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
100. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

1. When the pain of an obstacle is too great, challenge yourself to be stronger.
2. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
3. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
4. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller
5. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.’ – Albert Einstein
6. “Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Hensen
7. “What is coming is better than what is gone.” – Unknown
8. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”― Roy T. Bennett
9. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”― Marcus Aurelius
10. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” –Unknown
11. “The greatest weapon against stress is the ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
12. “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” – Hans F. Hansen
13. “Your mind is powerful. When you fill it with positive thoughts your whole world will change.” – Unknown
14. “Your only limit is your mind.” – Unknown
15. “Stop being afraid of what can go wrong and start being positive about what can go right.” – Unknown
16. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown
17. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
18. “One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win.” – Kylie Francis
19. “Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardi
20. “Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.” – Michael Jordan
21. “When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do.” – Nicki Minaj
22. “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” – Billie Jean King
23. ‘Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.” – Joe Torre
24. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela
25. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
26. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” –Robert T. Kiyosaki
27. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
28. “Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but the only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.” – Brad Sugars
29. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.” – Unknown
30. “Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams.” – Unknown
31. “Revenge is a powerful motivator.” – Marcus Luttrell
32. “Motivation may be what starts you off, but it’s a habit that keeps you going back for more.” – Miya Yamanouchi
33. “I will not erase all my hard work this week because it’s the weekend.” – Unknown
34. “It might not be easy but it’ll be worth it.” – Unknown
35. “Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator.’ – Unknown
36. “You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.” –Unknown
37. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey

2. Famous Motivational Quotes

1. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
2. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela
3. “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch
4. “The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
5. “What is life without a little risk?” – J.K. Rowling
6. “Only do what your heart tells you.” – Princess Diana
7. “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” – Grace Hopper
8. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
9. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
10. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayer
11. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
12. “Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” – Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
13. “Don’t think or judge, just listen.”― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
14. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
15. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
16. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
17. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
18. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
19. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
20. “Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
21. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.” – The Lion King
22. “We’re on the brink of adventure, children. Don’t spoil it with questions.” – Mary Poppins
23. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”– Ferris Bueller
24. “I just wanna let them know that they didn’t break me.” – Pretty in Pink
25. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – The Godfather
26. “No one has ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” – The Greatest Showman
27. “Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.” – The Breakfast Club
28. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” – Pirates of the Caribbean
29. “Remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.” – Snow White
30. “You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” – Good Will Hunting
31. “And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance… I hope you dance.” – I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack
32. “Just because it burns doesn’t mean you’re gonna die you’ve gotta get up and try.” – Try, P!nk
33. “Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize” – Wake Me Up, Avicii
34. “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a life for me and I’m feeling good.” – Feeling Good, Michael Buble
35. “Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.” – Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield
36. “A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make’ – The Greatest Showman
37. “It’s my life It’s now or never I ain’t gonna live forever I just want to live while I’m alive” – It’s My Life, Bon Jovi
38. “I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me” – New Romantics, Taylor Swift
39. “Cause the grass is greener under me bright as technicolor, I can tell that you can see” – Sorry Not Sorry, Demi Lovato
40. “Every day women and men become legends” – Glory, John Legend and Common

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3. Motivational Quotes for Freelance Women

1. “On my own, I will just create and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” – Malala Yousafzai
3. “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
4. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin
5. “When something I can’t control happens, I ask myself: Where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?” – Sara Blakely
6. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. “ – Jennifer Lopez
7. “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
8. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” – Joan Rivers
10. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

4. Motivational Quotes for Freelance Men

1. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” – Richard Branson
2. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot
3. “What hurts you blesses you.” – Rumi
4. ‘Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself.” – Unknown
5. “I always thought it was me against the world and then one day I realized it’s just me against me.” – Kendrick Lamar
6. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard Nixon
7. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
8. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
9. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee
10. “What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.” – Robin Williams

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What is motivation?

Motivation has been defined as a set of processes that guide and maintain goal-oriented behaviors. To make it simply, motivation is what push individuals to reach their goals. Over time, two different types of motivation have been outlined:

• Extrinsic motivations: those that arise from outside of the individual
• Intrinsic motivations: those that arise from within the individual.

Both of them contribute towards the final result, considering that they both require persistence and endurance. That’s why to make sure we have the right motivation to pursue the goals we need to be determined and put in place actions to initiate a series of behaviors that will help us achieve our goals.

How to motivate yourself in 3 easy ways

To make sure you succeed daily, you need to be the first to motivate yourself. Motivational quotes can be extremely useful, but you need to put in place a system of rewards and recognition that will bring the best out of you. These are three simple tricks you can use to motivate yourself.

1. Celebrate every win

Every accomplishment deserves to be celebrated, no matter how big it is. Make sure you recognize your ability to reach your goal and give yourself a hug every time you accomplish something. Do not focus on the big ones, but focus on the small goals: small goals are part of bigger goals and achieving just one of those open up to achieving big results as well. The way you celebrate depends on you: drink some wine, buy something you wanted, eat a piece of cake. You made it, and you need to give yourself a pat on the back.

2. Surround yourself with the right people

People can make or break our confidence and it is important to be sure to be surrounded by people that support us and that have ambitious goals themselves. Being around the right people can help you grow both professionally and personally. If you’re surrounded by lazy people, it will be hard for you to sit down and really nail your goals. If you are surrounded by ambitious ones, your inner pride will be challenged and you will have more chances to succeed. Be aware that ambition doesn’t mean being selfish: surround yourself with people that are positively ambitious, not toxic ones.

3. Create a positive environment

A positive environment is essential when it comes to finding motivation: this goes to choosing the right setting for your office, selecting the right tools for your business, having access to the things that make you happy when working. Some freelancers love listening to music while working to keep being motivated, others don’t. Explore what makes you happy and positive at work, and make sure your environment reflects this.

14 Simple Ways to Stay Motivated

If you have put in place a system to get motivated, you also need a system to stay motivated daily. Here you have ways to stay motivated as a freelancer:

• Always look at the bright side
• Keep a daily journal of the progress
• Be clear
• Commit
• Get the motivation from people you don’t know
• Share progress
• Be proactive
• Find your wellness routine
• Keep going no matter the consequences
• Be constructive about failures
• Always remind yourself of why you are doing what you’re doing
• Be grateful for what you got
• Mix things up
• Declutter your workspace

Motivational quotes for freelancers are essentials

Motivation is key for freelancers and finding the right attitude is the key to stay motivated and do well. Whether you’re looking to accomplish a goal or just starting a new project, these quotes can help remind you why you’re doing it. They can work on your subconscious and may change your entire process, directing your energies towards a positive path. So make sure you bookmark this page and use it as many times you need when you’re looking to boost your creativity and to find that instant motivation to keep going!

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